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So this morning I hopped on a train to work and began going through facebook on the iphone. I should probably stop doing this as it’s killing my data usage and I’m not even stalking remotely attractive looking girls!

Anyway, facebook brings a face to what would be trolls on internet forums. I read one post that aggravated me. It’s one of those “Look at me I’m posting something that most people would have seen anyway AND I’ll add my own obnoxious opinion about it!” Then of course you’d have the minions that follow that go “oh yes, this is so true”. Fuckers.

Basically, the feed was regarding Portugal and same-sex marriage. That’s fine. We’re in the 21st century, if a man could be forced to marry a goat, I don’t see why a man can’t marry another man or woman with another woman. Fair’s fair. I do, however, have a issue with the statement that came after “…congratulations to another country far more civilised than our own.”

Excuse me?

Whether or not same-sex marriage is allowed does not determine if a country is “civilised”. It just shows that the Portuguese government has an open mind to these kind of things. Australia is great, maybe the technology isn’t up to date with the rest of the developed nations, maybe the transport system is a bit poor, maybe we have a government that promotes internet censorship, maybe we do have egg laying, duck like mammals with poisonous spurs,  but honestly, every country has their problems and I think we can tolerate our problems. In fact, isn’t that why most Australian’s are immigrants in the first place, sick of the problems in their home country to come to a country with lesser problems? Hmmm.

Though I do not understand why there are so many rallies for same-sex marriages in Australia. Sure. Gays want equality. I understand that. I want them to have their equality. But maybe wait a generation? Think about the people in power right now. What era were they from? Thought about it? Do I really need to explain why they will never give in to your demands/requests? These are the same people trying to censor our PORN. Personally I think that the next generation of government will be absolutely revolutionary. Having said that…the generation after will be epic fail. The prime minister will most likely be some epic troll, trolling the entire country by adding rick rolls to his/her speech. I’m lolling just thinking about it. I can’t wait to troll my kids.

Any who, I think I’m done in terms of ranting. You can probably stop reading here as I’ll be talking about something else now.

I thought that my day would be slow, boring and tedious. But it wasn’t. Manager was away so I got to sit in the same row of desks as my team. Worked on a relatively simple problem that took the entire day to implement.

Basically I had to implement a form for uploading multiple files. Simple right?

Well…yeah…it is pretty simple but I wanted to do it elegantly and either there’s a gotcha that I didn’t know about or it’s just Spring being a whiney little bitch that it is. Basically I have 5 input fields and I wanted it to bind to a File array, except, it would only bind the first input field. Googled a lot, didn’t turn up with anything. So in the end I gave up and did it in a not so nice manner.

File file0, file2, file3, file4;

File getFile0()…

void setFile0()…

You get the gist of it.

In addition to that…because it didn’t bind properly I couldn’t use an index to look up the corresponding “description” that correlates to the file being uploaded.

So I had to do something like

if i == 0 getFile0()…

Yuck.

My manager arrived as I was about to leave so I showed it to him…the form that is…not the code and he was like “Perfect, that’s exactly what we want”. Well, just shows, as long as the end result satisfies the client’s requirements nothing else really matters.

So the day ended on a positive note.

Any who it’s taking me forever to write this blog >.>

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