Today started so good. I finally felt like I was coming to grips with the codebase. Funny how you spend years writing a spec for a system and then by the time it's half-written, you finally get a chance to look at it. Lucky python was chosen because I counted about three comments.
I spent the afternoon and most of the evening trying to reconnect my laptop, sim to the LAN. After an incredibly painful dive into the ugliness of Samba config I managed to get the thing up again. Learning lots about pdbedit database backends in the process. None of which helps with the organic development of cinema. Or does it?
Watched the end of Christine just now. Watched a machine trash itself and its owner was a lot more visual than a hundred or so Windows boot screens. But just as horrific. We're missing something with all this IT shit. I sat back down at my machines for one last crack at the problem. Which means that this crash course in python is paying off. I'm getting my head around the tech again. Midnight on a steamy Friday night and I'm back at the box. But I got in. Which reminded me why I'm doing this project in the first place. Trying to tell a story about dodgy boxes and dodgy people using them hasn't been told from the programmer's perspective before. Anyone can break a computer. Breaking the Net is more interesting and on the cards. The systems are constantly getting in the way of the story, the whole story, and I guess it's time to put that in perspective. This project was always going to be about going uphill and it's time for a pitstop. Time to start documenting the code and let CD out of the box.