Wednesday was fairly uneventful. I found a cunning method of persuading the BBC's radio 5 live to allow me to listen to the cricket commentary on the first England v South Africa test match, which kicked off at 21:30 over here. Such is the time zone difference that I retired to bed when the lunch break was upon us. Jacques Kallis was being rather annoying and scored 100.
On Thursday, our next door neighbours took Phoebe and Freya and their own kids with whom ours play, to their mother's place for a pool party. We were a little worried about them going on their own, and especially as Phoebe is not yet a strong swimmer. However after assurances from the parents that they'd look after them, we let them go. Everything went swimmingly, and although Phoebe was suffering from the "want mummas" she had a good time and only "nearly drownded" once.
We had a call from one of Imogen's friends, who wanted to come over and play as her mother was at work. A rather early call, at about 8:30 but as Rhiannon was also off out this morning with one of her school mates, having some company for Imogen wasn't a bad idea. I was offered $20 for babysitting - I wasn't aware that I was but declined anyway and settled for the large back of crisps and bottle of coke that accompanied the visit. Not that I got to see a lot of it, though.
Later I attempted another online mock exam. I did better than last time, with everything graded excellent except for two passes and a fail and an overall score of "Excellent" rather than "Pass". However, as some of the questions were exactly the same as the first exam and I had researched those answers thoroughly, it didn't seem quite such an achievement. I did think it might be nice to see which questions fitted into which of the 12 topics, or maybe even some answers to some of the more esoteric questions such as whether performance or maintainability is the most important, and the argument behind the answer.
Rhiannon had not made contact all day and it was now 8PM, so I managed to get her to answer her phone. She was down the Mount at her friend's parents' pizza spot. It closed at 9, so there was just enough time to pick her up before settling in to day of the test match. Kallis was out early on with another wicket falling before lunch/bed.
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Completely off the top of my head I'd say performance is more important than maintainability. Mainly because performance is what the system is there for, and ease of maintenance usually only affects a few poor saps like us. No point having a system that runs erratically or poorly just because it's easy to change!
ReplyDeleteOf course, I could be completely wrong. It has been known.
Happy Christmas!
C