When I first went to interview at LCC, I got the feeling that they hadn't really tackled a development project of any size- not recently anyway. Several methods and technologies were sold to them including Use Cases. The way they're being used is quite "interesting" though. Contrary to what I had previously thought, use-case driven apparently means analysing one screen/form (rather than an area of functionality), designing and implementing it.

This is great (no it isn't - Ed.) except that subsequent functions will modify classes and relationships which have already been implemented. OK we're all agile now (I can see my toes anyway) and we expect this sort of thing, but when something comes up like "Oh, and all the money has to be multi-currency", you end up with tons of rework that could've been avoided if someone had spotted that a couple of months ago.

Also, we're not agile because the "buisiness logic" layer is so tightly bound to the DB that changing the multiplicity of a relation can, apparently, result in many days of re-writing of stored procedures and the like.

The analyst philospohy (they haven't got an IT background, much less OOAD) seems geared around old fashioned Client/Server rather than our brave new n-Tier world. I am beginning to see the sense in old fashioned C/S.

Who am I to comment? I'm only an 'umble designer.

Secnod interview wih this other organisation on Tuesday. Ought to do a bit more research on their stuff.

Got wakeboarding booked later. It's currently pissing it down and windy. Nice.

The ongoing saga of the cheap Athlon 64 ... goes on. I got a 32bit OS on there so the flashing program would allegedly work. It does, but not with the update that I got from the motherboard manufacturer. There is a Flash utility with that but it runs under no falvours of Windows. I am in the position of trying to find a floppy disk and booting DOS off that. Super.

More oddness (don't know if any HuSiites can shed light on this): I know the Linksys wireless card is supposed to work with regular XP. I also know it's working because when I boto XP64, it works (albeit with a completely different driver). XP32 completely denies the existence of it though. This makes it kind of hard to get to the internet an get updates that might include support for it.

Question to HuSiite hardware people: Is there some new PCI bus thing which might be making my card invisible to old XP but visible to new XP which could be fixed, say, from the CMOS setup?

So, my situation is now: I have a 32bit OS which runs a load of stuff but can't connect to the intarweb. I have a 64bit OS which can connect but doesn't run everything. I have 2GB of RAM but can only use 1GB at a time and ... just arse really.

Mrs. H. is finding the teaching placement hard going. While at home, she seems to constantly be on the computer (one of the worknig ones) preparing lesson plans and stuff. Not sure if the school are taking the piss out of the trainee by dumping all the work on her. She spent 2 hours yesterday morning doing a lesson plan and "risk assessment" for taking the kids to the park.

The rest of the family are feeling a bit neglected. At least for me there's beer and porn but the kids don't have that option.

I am right about the BBC News Have Your Say section. It has been taken over by Mail/Express readers. On the subject of house prices, someone made the connection: prices->shortages->asylum seekers, but this was trumped with: water shortage->overcrowding->asylum seekers.