My blog. Personal thoughts, anecdotes, and musings.
This has definitely been an interesting week. I’ve been working for several days with a portal system, for both work and my own personal use. I’ve been experimenting with a program called ASP-Nuke which is a free GPL project that has some interesting features, including a very nice skinnable interface. It’s got some issues though, and that’s where most of my time has been going. I’ve rewritten a lot of the code for the database access routines, but I hope to have it completed very soon.
Budget transcript
I watched the Governer’s
address tonight… it talks of sweeping job cuts and spending
cuts. I agree with most of it, but I may lose part of (or all of)
my job in the process. That really hurts because I just got this
job and I really like it.
Here’s the
budget recommendation for the UW-System.in PDF format.
Links
Published February 18, 2003
Big list of Homestar Runner related interviews Johnny Cash covers Nine Inch Nails!!
My replacement Palm m515 is okay, but not as great as all of the reviews I’ve seen. I like the fact that I can turn the backlight off and still see the color screen in the daylight, but I don’t like the fact that the colors are not as bright as the IIIc that I had. This one is considerably faster, but the screen seems more faded than my old one.
Trading In
Published February 15, 2003
I’m packing up my Palm IIIc that I’ve had for two years. I love it… it’s been a great tool for me and I will miss it. But it’s dying… it won’t charge up anymore and so it’s time to take it in and use my service plan that I bought for it. Hopefully the one I get to replace it with will be cool… I’m looking at the m515… it’s the same value as my IIIc and it looks like it’s awesome.
In honor of the 300th episode of The Simpsons on Sunday I present to you my top ten favorite quotes and episodes.
Interesting
Published February 11, 2003
Life is interesting. Work is shaping up to be pretty cool. I have a new project to work on and a new methodology to approach. I’m going to be writing ASP pages that will connect to our mainframe terminal screen programs and allow web users to query data from our mainframe. It’s going to be a lot of fun to create new interfaces for these applications, and I’m very excited to get to do some designing again.
Lazy weekend
Published February 10, 2003
What a weekend. I spent the whole weekend with my wife and daughter. My wife got sick on Saturday so she came home from work. We all sat around all day and watched TV. I took my daughter out in the snow and we had a snow fight. She wanted to stay out longer, but she was complaining that her face hurt so we went in. Sure enough, she was all red-in-the-face from the wind, even though she was bundled up prety good.
Former MCA recording artist, DADA– is Back!!! All original members, Joie Calio, Michael Gurley and Phil Leavitt have rejoined forces and are currently gearing up for a 45-city US tour. An independently released “LIVE” CD will taken from this tour and be released in Fall 2003. Tour dates and cities are being added regularly. You can go to www.pollstar.com for tour itinerary.