The headline for this post is the title of a song by R.E.M. and it has something to do with my Visual Programming Practical Exam, and I will talk about that a little later.

Anyway, yesterday I finished my Visual Programming Practical Exam successfully!  I am happy of course, since it went well, but also because it is the last practical exam I will be writing in this Engineering course!  After all, there is not much of it left, only one more semester in which we have only two theory subjects.  OK, so what did I have to do in the exam?  I had to do two programs, one said Design and implement a fully functional Web Browser application and the other, Design and implement a menu driven MDI application.  The expected thing is to get one program to do in Visual Basic and the other in Visual C++, but here it wasn't specified.  So I made the browser in VB and the MDI program in VC++.  The MDI program in VC++ is so simple to do, everything is done automatically by the AppWizard if you select the base class as CEditView in Step 6 of the AppWizard!

When I showed it to the teacher he said that it was actually meant to be done the other way (browser in VC++ and MDI in VB), but since I had already done this, he said it was OK, but he told me to just do the MDI Program in VB and show him, which I did.  So that was what happened and that wrapped up the whole thing!

After I got home I wrote a few emails, drank coffee (Karthik's espresso mix, heh), watched Titus on STAR World.  Then I slept for a while, watched Desperado at 11 PM (what I had recorded from AXN in 1999).

OK, now the explanation of the headline.  You see, whenever I stay up late studying for an exam (as in this case - I was awake I think till around 3 AM the day before this exam) I usually take breaks at random intervals.  And I scan the channels on TV for about 10 or 15 minutes.  This time when I stopped at Channel [V] the R.E.M. song I mentioned was on.  It's the first time I'm listening to it fully, the only time I have heard a portion of it is in the beginning of Independence Day.  The video said that the name of the album was Document, which is interesting since that word has quite a bit of significance in VC++.