Day 944

Shocking weather - heavy rain. Ventured out in the morning to cash my Giro - avoided going to town because of the rain, read more old White Dwarfs. Rather paranoid again.

Watched Star Trek TNG, rather strained constitutional stuff, nowhere near as good as last week's triffic Robin Hood fantasy. Why do Americans call him Róbin Hood? Have they got no ear for names?

Worked on a .BMP file viewer; after initial trouble (the boolean expression-evaluation priorities catch again) got it to do perfect renditions - except that they're upside-down mirror images. What a stupid way to encode a file, beginning at bottom right and working upwards. Still, I'm quite proud of my achievement, done by dumping the first 128 bytes of eight .BMP files, getting their details from Graphics Workshop, and looking for significant variations. Half-an-hour's work located ID bytes, file size, bits per pixel and x,y dimensions. I love this sort of computer detective work. Wish I could find out exactly where header ends and data begins, though.