Yup, that’s right. Still waiting….. Work has slowed down a bit after a solid week of coding. We’ve been given the ok to redesign the system (it’s a mess of spaghetti code right now), so I spent the day thinking about data structures and the object that love them. Saw this article on how parents […]

Posted on May 6th, 2003 by admin
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The anklebiter has yet to show his face….. A few entertainment reviews today…I picked up two new albums, Pedro the Lion’s It’s Hard to Find a Friend and Ester Drang’s Inifinite Keys. It’s Hard… is David Bazan’s first album, and his best. A little less of a “book” than his later albums, but still great […]

Posted on May 4th, 2003 by admin
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Well, in about two hours, the anklebiter’s due date will have passed. No news on that front at all….maybe tomorrow…. Quite a frustrating day. First, we lost internet connectivity at work. Not a big deal, since most of my work revolved around servers inside the network. But I soon found I really needed the Jakarta […]

Posted on May 2nd, 2003 by admin
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Well, we’re still waiting for the anklebiter. No sign of him yet, though….. The new job has been good, and very interesting. I’ve been handed a ton of interesting responsibilities, included setting up a server for hosting one of the applications. Good stuff. Tomorrow will be spent migrating Turbine applications from version 2.1 to 2.2, […]

Posted on May 1st, 2003 by admin
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The new job has been going well. After a day of extreme programming with a co-worker, I’ve been set loose on the application. Despite the overall complexity of the framework being used, I’ve got a decent handle on things. My only complaint so far is that my mp3s aren’t playing so well on the machine….lots […]

Posted on April 30th, 2003 by admin
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This is a headline from Sport Illustrated: Kansas receives permission to talk with Self I wonder who they had to ask?

Posted on April 16th, 2003 by admin
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Betcha never thought you’d read something here about the University of Pittsburgh basketball team….but here it is, my $.02 about the new team’s new coach. While it’s good for Jamie Dixon that he was named head coach (and the players, who lobbied hard for him), it’s a bit odd that a team that is now […]

Posted on April 15th, 2003 by admin
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First, after six whole weeks, the World Rally Championship is running again, this time in New Zealand. The weather has been wetter than usual, negating any disadvantage early runners like Richard Burns (current driver’s points leader) might have. But the conditions haven’t stopped Marcus Gronholm, as he leads the rally after day one by almost […]

Posted on April 11th, 2003 by admin
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I am desperately trying to wrap up this consulting project. I want to start my new job as soon as possible (and my new employer would like me to as well), but these folks just won’t play ball. I don’t ever want for a big company, no matter how much they will pay me. It […]

Posted on April 9th, 2003 by admin
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First…I accepted an offer for a fulltime job yesterday. I’ll be a Java monkey for a little collaboration software startup. Should be interesting. The work consists of using the newer Jakarta-Apache frameworks like Turbine and Velocity. Despite the fact it’ll be a paycut from consulting, not having to worry about things like health benefits is […]

Posted on April 1st, 2003 by admin
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