Shannon Larratt is Zentastic

I got some new contacts, mostly for amusing Nefarious’s friends. They’re a little crooked in the photo below. I think one of my favorite parts of the day is picking her up from school, because at the end of the day all the kids come down from their various classrooms and hang out in the common room / foyer while they wait for their parents to come and get them (not that many of the kids take the bus), and trade whatever snacks they have left over from lunch. When I get there, Nefarious is almost always playing chess with a small ground of chess regulars — one of them, who I think is one or two years older, has an excellent sense of strategy, but they’re all quite solid for their age — and I join in or watch. I think today I’ll bring in some of the fairy chess pieces that Nefarious and I made for our games here and see if they want to introduce those.

It’s still got some issues, but I have released a beta version of my Craigslist search tool. The biggest improvement is that it’s incredibly fast in comparison to the old one, and can download full entries (also incredibly fast), not just the titles. I’m happy with where it’s going, but there is still a serious bug with “auto deep scan”, and I’m worried about a problem I’m having with a ShellExecute() call I’m making for the “view in browser” call. It seems to make the call, but then just hangs, which means that it doesn’t view the file, and it creates a thread that doesn’t terminate when you close the program. I think this is a Windows 7 issue though, because I have the same problem in some other programs that I have (Eudora, Windows Picture Viewer, etc.) when they make the same call themselves.

Edit: The deep scan bug is fixed, and the ShellExecute problem is because of a permissions error. ZenCLSH must have as high a permission level as the program being controlled (ie. so this is an OS issue).