One o'clock, Two o'clock, Three o'clock (A), Three o'clock (B) rock...

Yesterday the clocks were changed. Guess who forgot all about it?

So, no "extra hour of sleep" for Stella and me. Instead, we got woken up by her clock radio to the announcement "This is the five o'clock news".

Five? Oh, right, there was this DST thing. Darn.

Word to the wise

Don't copy pointers to child objects (has-a relationship) in your operator =; sharing common children this way will bite you when you try to destroy your child objects and they've already been destroyed.

Fortunately, the STL implementation we use replaces internal pointers with "magic" nonsense values after the object is destroyed so you at least get a segfault and notice.

Christmas cards

I'm seeing more and more people putting up polls requesting addresses so they can send out Christmas cards (or other mail).

I thought about it but then decided that my historically abysmal track record of actually writing things to anybody probably won't make it worth while. Apologies; it's nothing personal.