Beta

It was a bright start to the day. The temperatures reached the low 20s, but there were plenty of clouds to keep the sky interesting.

The Gorse Fox had an appointment with a football this morning. He joined up with the "lads" and the teams were chosen. It looked like a fairly even split but our "yellow" team rushed into a 3-0 lead. After that, the "oranges" started to get their act together and by half time we had tied at 3-3. In the second half, the pendulum swung the other way. Before we knew what had hit us we were 7-4 down. Frankly, a lot of it was our own fault caused by wayward passes and poor clearances by the goalkeeper. In the last 10 minutes, the Gorse Fox started to make some telling interceptions and started to take a bit more control. He scored one from the edge of the area, then he scored another from a free-kick which he rolled back to his goalkeeper and then hit the return pass from the edge of his own area. Finally, he scored an equalizer bending a shot around a wall of defenders. In the dying seconds, he got the ball again and was lining up another shot when the whistle blew. A good game and a fair result, 7-7.

Back home Cousteau-cub has gone down to the seafront with some of her work colleagues and the Silver Vixen has been pottering in the garden. The Gorse Fox returned to the code that was troubling him yesterday. A report from the development team suggested the code was now functioning correctly. One of them had found an error and corrected it overnight. The Gorse Fox downloaded the latest build of the "beta" software (currently they are doing nightly builds). He tested it and sure enough, the problem has gone away. That's always a relief to find that it is not the onset of some coding dementia, but a genuine bug in the software. The Gorse Fox should trust himself more.