Flowcharts

We're working on getting documentation done for various programs and processes in here in SIA. It seems to be agreed that flowcharts are a useful tool for this, and we even have some funky and very expensive software to draw them. Nobody seems to know what the little boxes and arrows acually mean, though. I have a vague notion that the diamond box is a decision, and the rectangle a process - or is that an arrow? Can anyone point me at a Programming Flowcharts for Dummies page?

Weekend Past

I seem to have missed good chunks of the weekend here. Well, let's see. On Friday evening, I went home, and inannajones was just arriving back with childeric and mr_flay in tow. After some discussion, and some tea, a decision was taken to head in the direction of Wong's for dinner, where we had some rather good food. childeric parted ways, and went on into town, while we installed mr_flay on the sofa. Poor chap had had some traumatic experiences during Thursday night and needed rather to forget them.

On Saturday morning, I left mr_flay at a bus stop, and went on to buy a composter. One taxi ride from the ever-amenable Terenure Taxis had it back home, and we started piling stuff into it, along with a lot of other garden cleaning, which it was very much in need of. Saturday evening was spent listing stuff on eBay, and doing some game stuff.

Sunday saw more gardening, and the emptying of the pond. Something had to be done about it; it was growing stuff that it really shouldn't have been. I'm not sure whether olethros' non-comprehension of the purpose of ponds last year harmed or healed it, but it's been... strange since. So it's now empty of water, and will have the mud and gunk removed soon. Then some more cleaning, and refilling. Possibly the addition of fish; wyvernfriend points out that some species of catfish are good at cleaning ponds.