https://bphogan.com/2004/Recent content in 2004 on Brian P. HoganHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usThu, 23 Dec 2004 04:34:55 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/12/22/speed-up-firefox/Thu, 23 Dec 2004 04:34:55 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/12/22/speed-up-firefox/Open Firefox. Type “about:config” in the adress bar (no quotation marks). Find these options, double click each one and change to below values:. . network.http.max-connections: 48. network.http.max-connections-per-server: 24. network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy: 12. network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server: 6. network.http.pipelining: true. network.http.pipelining.maxrequests: 32. network.http.proxy.pipelining: true. . Close Firefox and enjoy the faster browsing.https://bphogan.com/2004/12/15/mom/Thu, 16 Dec 2004 02:12:50 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/12/15/mom/I got a call from Mom tonight. She had to get new platelets today but her white blood cell count doubled. She told me that if everything goes well, they may let her come home on Monday! Since she received her new stem cells, they consider her to be “born again” so that means that she is a whopping eight days old today. We had a good talk tonight and she sounds like she’s doing better.https://bphogan.com/2004/11/18/headaches/Fri, 19 Nov 2004 01:44:46 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/11/18/headaches/I’m not doing so well. It seems that every day-some home from work, I have a killer headache and a desire to just fall asleep. I’m starting to think there is something wrong with me. Maybe there’s too much Stress in my life, or maybe I’m just getting Sick. I just wish it would be over.It’s getting nard to get work done. The tablet does make it easier though; I can stretch out on the couch and get some work done.https://bphogan.com/2004/11/04/tablet-pc-experience/Fri, 05 Nov 2004 04:37:31 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/11/04/tablet-pc-experience/I’m writing this post from my Tablet PC that the University bought me. It was sitting on my desk when I came into work this morning and I immediately started fiddling around with it. It is definitely going to take some getting used to but I’m very happy with how easy it is to use. It does a decent job with the handwriting recognition, and it also has voice recognition which will be very useful for me.https://bphogan.com/2004/10/27/games/Wed, 27 Oct 2004 23:21:46 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/10/27/games/ Nucleus Kung Fu Motherloadhttps://bphogan.com/2004/10/17/congratulations-anita-and-jeremy/Sun, 17 Oct 2004 06:34:52 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/10/17/congratulations-anita-and-jeremy/Anita and Jeremy were married today at Dover Lutheran Church outside of New Auburn. It was a very nice ceremony. I had a great view from where I sat, playing the music. Anita had asked me a few months ago if I would play, and I said yes, not really realizing how much work it would be. I’m glad I did it though. Everything went well, and it was the least I could do.https://bphogan.com/2004/10/05/27/Tue, 05 Oct 2004 16:00:57 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/10/05/27/I turned 27 today. It was a very low-key birthday. I went to work and solved some big problems that have been bugging me for the last few days. We all did lunch at Mogie’s to celebrate. Every time I go there, I’m reminded that I need to go there more often. When I came home from work, I spent time with Ana and then watched the VP debate with my dad who stopped over to visit.https://bphogan.com/2004/09/13/original-star-wars-trilogy/Mon, 13 Sep 2004 06:43:50 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/09/13/original-star-wars-trilogy/Sign the petition at originaltrilogy.com. Maybe Lucas will then release the original non-Special Edition ones.https://bphogan.com/2004/08/31/old-school/Tue, 31 Aug 2004 05:12:56 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/08/31/old-school/Here’s some useful M.A.M.E. links. M.A.M.E is an arcade emulator capable of playing images from arcade machines. The legality of all of this is pretty sketchy, but I’m not posting anything that you can’t find with a simple Google search anyway. Besides, I’m not posting any links to any games. Mame Website ArcadeControls Software Forum Bios files for Mamehttps://bphogan.com/2004/08/31/catching-up/Tue, 31 Aug 2004 05:05:12 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/08/31/catching-up/It’s been a little while since I’ve written, and there’s been a lot going on. Mom’s doing some more aggressive therapy now. She spent the last four days in the hospital for some in-patient chemotherapy. She’s home now, but she will be going back to the hospital in a few weeks for more chemo, and then to Marshfield for a bone-marrow transplant. The hope is that after the transplant, she’ll go into remission.https://bphogan.com/2004/08/18/play-hockey-now/Thu, 19 Aug 2004 02:49:43 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/08/18/play-hockey-now/ Table Hockey game… so fun. So addictive.https://bphogan.com/2004/08/15/dead-laptop/Mon, 16 Aug 2004 02:50:15 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/08/15/dead-laptop/So here I am, watching a flick, when my laptop freezes up. I figured that it was no big deal. My laptop has a tendancy to freeze up every so often, so I’ve gotten used to it. However, this time, no matter how long I held the power button down, I couldn’t make it shut off. So I unplugged the laptop and ejected the battery, as the instruction manual says to do in such a situation.https://bphogan.com/2004/08/06/a-good-long-week/Fri, 06 Aug 2004 21:27:28 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/08/06/a-good-long-week/The reason for the lack of updates on my blog is quite simple-vacation! I took my week summer vacation to spend some time with my wife. We celebrated our second anniversary this last Tuesday by going to the restaurant we met at. I also spent the week recovering from a neck and shoulder injury which occurred last weekend after karate. I was finished with the workout and was turning around to grab something and all of a sudden, I couldn’t move.https://bphogan.com/2004/07/25/you-cant-beat-this-joke/Sun, 25 Jul 2004 19:08:36 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/07/25/you-cant-beat-this-joke/Passengers on a small commuter plane are waiting for the flight to leave. The entrance opens, and two men walk up the aisle, dressed in pilots’ uniforms–both are wearing dark glasses, one is using a seeing-eye dog, and the other is tapping his way up the aisle with a cane. Nervous laughter spreads through the cabin; but the men enter the cockpit, the door closes, and the engines start up.https://bphogan.com/2004/07/22/awesome-castlevania-flash-game/Thu, 22 Jul 2004 12:36:21 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/07/22/awesome-castlevania-flash-game/This was posted on Fark, but I am putting it up on here anyway. This is the best Flash game I’ve seen ever. Play the gamehttps://bphogan.com/2004/07/20/all-moved-in/Tue, 20 Jul 2004 19:24:25 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/07/20/all-moved-in/This place is pretty cool. It’s funny how we all sit around now and try to remember where things like walls and doors used to be. Everything has changed. The students have a respectable area to work, I have my own office with more storage cabinets than I can fill, and the move couldn’t have been smoother. If I can get the digital camera’s batteries charged before everyone leaves today, I’ll get some pictures.https://bphogan.com/2004/07/19/moving-home/Mon, 19 Jul 2004 17:54:54 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/07/19/moving-home/We are getting ready to move back to the old building. We’ve been up in the Library for over six months, and during that time, our old area has been completely rebuilt. When I go down there, I am just in awe of what they have done. I will have my own office, all to myself. I won’t have to share with students or other coworkers. I’ve been waiting quite a long time for this and am more eager than ever to get out of this place we’re currently in.https://bphogan.com/2004/06/29/rip-revelstoke/Tue, 29 Jun 2004 05:42:25 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/06/29/rip-revelstoke/Rumor has it that my favorite whiskey, The Revelstoke, is being discontinued. There’s no mention of it on the Phillips website, but I left them a message to see if I can get some confirmation. A few of us are planning to organize some sort of grass-roots campaign to bring it back. Apparently in 2001-2002, it outsold Crowne Royale, the top-selling whiskey, 6000 cases to 2900 cases. So people were drinking it….https://bphogan.com/2004/06/29/wink/Tue, 29 Jun 2004 05:03:55 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/06/29/wink/WINK is the coolest program. It’s a free web-based tutorial creation program like Camtasia, but I found it to be a lot easier to use. Creating tutorials is a breeze. There’s no audio support yet, but you could add that in yourself using Flash. Backing up a DVD with DVD Shrink Encoding a video to XviD with Vidomi I’m working on some more… stay tuned.https://bphogan.com/2004/06/22/i-am-so-playing-this-when-i-get-home/Tue, 22 Jun 2004 17:51:52 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/06/22/i-am-so-playing-this-when-i-get-home/Check out Zelda Classic, a faithful re-creation of the original NES classic, with support for your own quests.https://bphogan.com/2004/06/17/velvet-revolver-and-copy-protected-cds/Fri, 18 Jun 2004 00:16:21 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/06/17/velvet-revolver-and-copy-protected-cds/I dig the new Velvet Revolver cd. The music rocks, the singing is great, and it’s just a good return to grungy rock ‘n’ roll. I recommend this highly. Many who read this site know that I have an iPod and I like to listen to my music wherever I go. However, the Velvet Revolver CD is protected by a digital rights management program that prevents me, a legitimate owner of the disc, from ripping a copy to take with me on my iPod.https://bphogan.com/2004/06/17/human-virus-scanner/Thu, 17 Jun 2004 13:53:12 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/06/17/human-virus-scanner/Human Virus Scanner from TotL.net. This is great.https://bphogan.com/2004/06/15/extending-dreamweaver/Tue, 15 Jun 2004 21:00:34 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/06/15/extending-dreamweaver/I found a good basic tutorial on how to write extensions for DreamWeaver. All it takes is some simple JavaScript and HTML. Read more on Making A Simple, Useful Extension at Dreamweaver FAQ.com ALA has a good post today on how to make liquid CSS layouts. Anyone who’s just learning CSS should give this a read.https://bphogan.com/2004/06/10/what-a-week/Thu, 10 Jun 2004 19:52:05 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/06/10/what-a-week/First Reagan, now Ray Charles. local6.com – Entertainment – Music Legend Ray Charles Dieshttps://bphogan.com/2004/06/01/useful-web-tools/Tue, 01 Jun 2004 17:54:47 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/06/01/useful-web-tools/ Universal Accessibility In Practice CSS Filters Client Quotes!!!https://bphogan.com/2004/05/28/web-standards-presentation/Fri, 28 May 2004 19:52:19 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/05/28/web-standards-presentation/I gave my presentation on web standards today. I covered XHTML and CSS and how they can be used to create websites that separate design from presentation. We spent about 90 minutes going over the concepts and some demonstrations. Download the PowerPoint slideshttps://bphogan.com/2004/05/26/again-and-again/Wed, 26 May 2004 17:33:19 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/05/26/again-and-again/Mom’s back in the hospital again because she’s in pain. Today will be her first treatment with the higher dosage of the medicine, and I understand they are going to suppliment the antibodies with some other drugs. Mom still seems optimistic though. In case you didn’t know, her lymphoma has been upgraded to “large cell lymphoma”, a more agressive type. She was given the option of chemotherapy or a bone-marrow transplant, but either of those choices would be an option if the lymphoma returned after treatment.https://bphogan.com/2004/05/17/supreme-court-rules-on-ada-case/Mon, 17 May 2004 19:52:11 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/05/17/supreme-court-rules-on-ada-case/In a major victory for disabled Americans, the Supreme Court Monday ruled they deserve equal access and accommodation at government buildings, such as courthouses and schools, in all states. Read the opinion of the court or read the summary at CNN..https://bphogan.com/2004/05/16/the-big-shindigg/Mon, 17 May 2004 03:57:44 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/05/16/the-big-shindigg/We had the big May Birthday Party this weekend. This year, Carissa and I threw a surprise party for my mom and dad. My aunt Annie and my uncle Bob came up from Illinois, and they brought my grandma with them. It was great to see them all and my dad was quite surprised as well. My other grandma came also, as well as my aunt Mary Kay and my uncle Ben, with whom we always share special occasions.https://bphogan.com/2004/05/07/the-xp-firewall/Fri, 07 May 2004 13:42:19 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/05/07/the-xp-firewall/ZDNet is running a story that predicts the death of third-party firewalls now that the XP Firewall will be turned on by default in the next service pack for Windows XP. This is simply not true. The Microsoft firewall can be disabled with three lines of VBScript code. This has been tested by sysadmins on Service Pack 2 betas in order to allow remote administration of machines. I’d bet that non-MS firewalls can’t be disabled this easily.https://bphogan.com/2004/05/06/avserve2-new-worm-found/Thu, 06 May 2004 18:22:50 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/05/06/avserve2-new-worm-found/I’m finding a nasty little memory hogging trojan / worm thingy related to the Sasser worm on a few of the machines in my office. See this page for some info on how to get rid of it. Check your task manager. If you see AVSERVER2.EXE running, you should nuke it. If you can’t get rid of it manually, you can use PSKILL from SysInternals to forcefully kill the process.https://bphogan.com/2004/05/06/free-vbnet/Thu, 06 May 2004 06:25:44 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/05/06/free-vbnet/Watch some movies and rate them and get a free copy of VB.NET Standard here. You don’t have to watch the movies.. just rate them! Update: I never got mine. What a rip!https://bphogan.com/2004/05/04/more-space/Tue, 04 May 2004 12:38:37 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/05/04/more-space/I picked up a 160gb hard drive last night for . My server is running out of space and I couldn’t wait any more. It was the best deal I could find in town, and after some recent hard drive freakouts, my server needed a new drive. I spent last night moving files to it and it looks like everything is working. It wasn’t what I had in mind for last night, but it’s still something I am glad I got out of the way.https://bphogan.com/2004/05/02/moms-doing-well/Mon, 03 May 2004 04:28:03 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/05/02/moms-doing-well/We went up to see my parents tonight and we cooked hot dogs and bratwurst on the grill. It was pretty cold but the food cooked up pretty fast. I worry about Mom because she tries to do too much too soon, and I just want her to be more careful. I’ve only got one set of parents, and I’d like them to be around for awhile yet. I’m pretty excited about Neal and Sara’s wedding.https://bphogan.com/2004/05/02/twenty-favorite-songs/Mon, 03 May 2004 04:21:41 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/05/02/twenty-favorite-songs/“Everything Happens To Me” (Chet Baker) One of the coolest tunes ever. Chet sings so soft and mellow, and his delivery of this great song is just perfect. It’s the song for anyone who just feels like nothing ever goes right for them, especially love. “I” (dada) This song has incredible harmonies and neat guitar overlays. dada is probably my favorite rock band, and this would be my favorite song.https://bphogan.com/2004/05/01/congratulations-neal-and-sara/Sun, 02 May 2004 03:19:41 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/05/01/congratulations-neal-and-sara/Neal and Sara got engaged tonight. We’re all excited about their upcoming wedding.https://bphogan.com/2004/04/29/what-a-week-2/Fri, 30 Apr 2004 03:47:06 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/04/29/what-a-week-2/There’s so much going on right now. I started working on a new program that will let administrators know when servers are unavailable. I plan to get it working and start selling it. The problem is that I don’t have a lot of time to spend on it because I have some web stuff going on as well. The new designs I’m working on are almost done, and I’ve set a goal for myself this weekend.https://bphogan.com/2004/04/24/not-done-yet/Sat, 24 Apr 2004 12:10:30 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/04/24/not-done-yet/Mom’s out of surgery. They found quite a bit of lymphoma in both ovaries, and some on her colon. They removed all the lymphoma they could find, but they also found an unknown mass in the uterous. It could be a fibroid tumor, or it could be much much worse. I don’t want to think about that, so I won’t. The surgeon said they would know more within two weeks, so we are all back to the waiting game.https://bphogan.com/2004/04/22/fun-stuff/Fri, 23 Apr 2004 02:37:05 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/04/22/fun-stuff/ Polar Rescue $1 Blockbuster Movie Rental Coupon Kill Bill I will not be responsible if anything bad happens if you click this.https://bphogan.com/2004/04/22/tomorrow/Fri, 23 Apr 2004 02:09:47 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/04/22/tomorrow/Mom will have her surgury tomorrow (Friday) and they plan to do a biopsy during the operation. I visited Mom in the hospital this afternoon and she was doing well, but she said that she was in a bit of pain. I want to be there tomorrow but I don’t know if I should skip work just to sit in a waiting room for three hours. I am nervous that if somethign doesn’t go right, I won’t be there, but then what could I do anyway?https://bphogan.com/2004/04/22/hospital/Thu, 22 Apr 2004 05:19:13 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/04/22/hospital/Mom’s back in the hospital again, and just like always I haven’t quite figured out how to deal with it. I kept myself busy tonight with work projects, and I have a splitting headache, but I don’t think I want to sleep. I’ll probably sit in bed for a few hours before I get some sleep. Since she’s going to have her surgury sooner than she’d hoped, she’ll probably miss the walk on the 6th, which means a lot to her.https://bphogan.com/2004/04/19/the-storm-2/Mon, 19 Apr 2004 12:32:04 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/04/19/the-storm-2/Wow. All I can say is that I don’t remember a day where the wind kept going like that. According to some reports, we had some wind gusts over 50 miles per hour around here yesterday. A couple of trees near me were taken down, and I don’t mean little trees. I mean big trees. Ana’s sandbox is flooded because I had to bring the lid in the house. It blew away a few times yesterday, along with the neighbor’s trash can.https://bphogan.com/2004/04/18/what-a-storm/Sun, 18 Apr 2004 13:33:28 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/04/18/what-a-storm/We were without power for several hours last night, but it was odd because our area really didn’t get much. I looked outside last night and I could see the sky filled with lightening flashes, but none of them were anywhere near where we lived. We did get some rain though. That should help with the dust and ashes that has become my back yard.https://bphogan.com/2004/04/14/dan-brunson-saved-me-400/Thu, 15 Apr 2004 04:11:52 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/04/14/dan-brunson-saved-me-400/Thanks, Dan…. for showing me Inno Setup, a free software installer creation tool. It’s so easy to use and it has all the features of the install package I was planning to purchase this week. Combine that with ISTool, a nicer front-end for the compiler, and it’s easy to create any Windows install package you want.https://bphogan.com/2004/04/13/light-the-night/Tue, 13 Apr 2004 20:21:20 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/04/13/light-the-night/I’m not getting as many people interested in the Light The Night walk. My mom really wants a lot of people to come out this year. It’s only a small walk and the proceeds from the pledges you bring in go to fight lymphoma. Let me know if you’re interested and you have May 6th available. I know Chris is going to do it, but I haven’t heard back from many others.https://bphogan.com/2004/04/13/i-wish-i-had-time/Tue, 13 Apr 2004 20:15:56 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/04/13/i-wish-i-had-time/Things are getting a little busy. I just received an inquiry from someone who wants to purchase a program that I wrote It will be interesting to see if he’s interested in buying more than one license since he sent his request from his work address. I wasn’t ready to take orders on my web site yet because I just hadn’t had time to get all of the things in place.https://bphogan.com/2004/04/13/microsoft-security-bulletins/Tue, 13 Apr 2004 20:09:19 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/04/13/microsoft-security-bulletins/ MS04-011 Remote Code Execution MS04-012 Cumulative Update for Microsoft RPC/DCOM MS04-013 Cumulative Security Update for Outlook Express (837009) MS04-014 Vulnerability in the Microsoft Jet Database Engine Could Allow Code Execution (837001)https://bphogan.com/2004/04/08/designs/Thu, 08 Apr 2004 19:21:18 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/04/08/designs/I’ve been spending my time working on some new designs for this site in order to help me better understand how CSS works. That means I’ve been tidying up my code some and making slight modifications to various parts of the site. I have discovered that I have more information on this site than I thought I did, and I don’t have enough links to get people to it all!https://bphogan.com/2004/04/08/winamp-503-media-library-fix/Thu, 08 Apr 2004 18:55:34 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/04/08/winamp-503-media-library-fix/If you’re having problems in 5.02 or 5.03 with Winamp freezing up when you play a song from the Media Library view, it’s due to the file “gen_hotkeys.dll” in the Winamp\Plugins folder. Rename this to “gen_hotkeys.dll.old” or replace with the one from version 5.01 and everything should work again.https://bphogan.com/2004/03/29/running/Tue, 30 Mar 2004 03:05:08 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/03/29/running/Ana and I went running tonight. She did really well. In fact, she went longer than I thought she would. We ended up doing two laps around our route. By the end, she was pretty tired, but she still sprinted the last few yards home. I just did some tinkering with this site, separating out the various sections so that I can edit them without too much trouble. I noticed that I’ve been changing things around a little more than I thought I would.https://bphogan.com/2004/03/28/so-much-to-say/Mon, 29 Mar 2004 04:50:08 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/03/28/so-much-to-say/Wow. What a day. I spent the weekend working on various projects, so today was a nice break. Ana came home around 1:30 and we sat down to watch some Simpsons and she showed me all the neat little toys she got for an early Easter from her grandma. Then I showed her ArtRage, a really cool free drawing program. She really got a kick out of that. After that, she played her favorite computer game, and then we went outside so she could ride her bike around.https://bphogan.com/2004/03/24/random-bouts-of-frustration/Thu, 25 Mar 2004 03:29:38 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/03/24/random-bouts-of-frustration/Work is frustrating. I’m not sure what the future will bring, but it’s not looking too great right now. I may have to put other plans in motion. If you have a 64-bit processor, Microsoft is letting you try Windows XP 64-bit Edtion for free. This is the coolest Winamp Plugin Ever! It lets you export your media library so you can use it in ITunes, and it lets you import ITunes XML files.https://bphogan.com/2004/03/18/i-should-be-sleeping/Thu, 18 Mar 2004 06:11:21 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/03/18/i-should-be-sleeping/But how can I? I’ve been playing with this new toy all night. I got my Edirol PCR A30 MIDI controller today and I’ve been playing with it for most of the night. I ran into some issues with it when I first started using it. It has a built-in sound processor that works over USB. It kept disconnecting itself whenever I tried to play a sound file or do anything really intense with it.https://bphogan.com/2004/03/15/kata/Tue, 16 Mar 2004 04:19:48 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/03/15/kata/I spent the evening working on some web pages and doing some kata. I love kata. It’s a great way to relax, build balance, expand the mind, and build up strength. I can really get a lot out of the movements if I do them precisely. The most amazing thing about kata, in my mind, is the way that a person can be completely drained of all energy by performing a simple kata, but also feel so peaceful and relaxed at the same time.https://bphogan.com/2004/03/14/whoo-hoo/Mon, 15 Mar 2004 04:49:21 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/03/14/whoo-hoo/Computer stuff is hard. Carissa’s laptop is still sticky from the soda my mom accidentally spilled. We soaked all the keys and put everything back together, but they still stick After three tries, it won’t work right. But now I feel dumb. I should have gone to the Internet earlier. Then I would have found this great article that explains how to take an HP n5xxxx series laptop apart, I also would have found this great subsite of HP that lets you buy any part you need for your HP computer.https://bphogan.com/2004/03/09/music-stuff-2/Tue, 09 Mar 2004 12:46:33 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/03/09/music-stuff-2/I spent the evening working on some music and I thought it would be cool to post some of the drum loops I’ve been working on tonight. Drum tracks are the most fun for me to create, and I’ve never even played the drums. Each file is in mp3 format and is ready to be looped in any standard music program. If I get demand I’ll convert them to REX files.https://bphogan.com/2004/03/01/tired/Tue, 02 Mar 2004 01:51:12 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/03/01/tired/No Simpsons this week. That’s already a bad sign. I spent all day trying to get a server to work and I’m drained. It’s not like my job is extremely taxing… I mean, I sit in front of a computer all day. That’s still more work done than some people I know, but for some reason, tonight I find myself extremely tired. I usually enjoy challenges, although lately I think I must be getting burned out.https://bphogan.com/2004/02/16/odd-way-to-start-the-week/Tue, 17 Feb 2004 01:59:21 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/02/16/odd-way-to-start-the-week/I woke up last night to Ana coughing really loudly. She was having a really rough time so I got her out of bed and gave her some medicine to see if that would help. I think it did because she was able to get some sleep until morning. She seemed pretty lively today but she does still have a stuffy nose. Carissa, meanwhile, pulled a muscle in her back sometime yesterday / last night.https://bphogan.com/2004/02/09/job-stuff/Mon, 09 Feb 2004 23:00:25 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/02/09/job-stuff/Internship Mania is coming to our university, and I thought I’d take a second and post my bookmarks for various job-hunting links. Resume Length – One Page or Two? How to Decide on Resume Length 10 Tips to Bulletproof Your Resume Who Needs a Cover Letter? Sample Cover Letters Damn Good Resume Tips 15 Myths and Misconceptions About Job-Hunting The 5 Laws of Successful Career Search Job Hunting Strategies for New Grads Dynamic Cover Letters for New Grads Job Hunting Advice to the Brand New Graduate TIPS ON RESUME WRITING, INTERVIEW SKILLS,https://bphogan.com/2004/02/08/programming-brought-to-you-by-the-letters/Mon, 09 Feb 2004 04:04:02 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/02/08/programming-brought-to-you-by-the-letters/VB is a strange language. Lots of stuff doesn’t work the way it should. I’m frustrated and tired, and I have to work tomorrow. It’s time to write, but I don’t have much to say. Basically I spent all weekend working on a program I started three years ago. Carissa reminded me about it and I really would like to finish it up. I played Ghost Recon for a bit today.https://bphogan.com/2004/01/31/slow-connection/Sun, 01 Feb 2004 02:21:42 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/01/31/slow-connection/My cable modem crapped out today and locked me to a low speed. I called the Charter technicians who said I should just get a new modem. I could buy my own and they would knock off my bill each month. I’m down with that! Carissa picked up a new modem after work tonight and I got it running. The tech was right; the speed came right back to where it should be.https://bphogan.com/2004/01/25/weavin-me-some-web/Mon, 26 Jan 2004 03:09:15 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/01/25/weavin-me-some-web/The weekend was spent doing web work, which was how I spent a good portion of my week. One of the sites I maintain had a bunch of new material to put up, so I had to scan photos, retouch stuff, change text, and publish. My new grade submission application went live this week, but lots of other stuff went wrong, so work has been taking up most of my time.https://bphogan.com/2004/01/11/getting-ready-for-moving-day/Mon, 12 Jan 2004 04:11:37 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/01/11/getting-ready-for-moving-day/Tomorrow, we’re supposed to be getting things ready to move out of our offices. The demolition of our area will begin next week, so we’re all getting ready to move our things out of the area. I’ll bring my camera and get some pictures of the process. It’s going to be weird not working in that area anymore. I’ve been down there since 1997 when I worked there as a student.https://bphogan.com/2004/01/05/back-to-work/Tue, 06 Jan 2004 04:22:33 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/01/05/back-to-work/After two weeks off, work was really hard. I spent a good portion of the day working on some database-related problems. It’s amazing the kinds of things that can break. Sometimes I wonder if I am in fact in the right field. I really have a hard time motivating myself to actually write programs, and the constant distractions at work don’t help matters much. I should just get a non-computer-related job… like CEO.https://bphogan.com/2004/01/01/happy-new-year/Thu, 01 Jan 2004 06:40:53 +0000https://bphogan.com/2004/01/01/happy-new-year/Time to get your goals for the new year all figured out. I know I’ve got a few things I’d like to accomplish this year. Only time will tell if I can meet them. I need to get some sleep so I can get up early in the morning. I’m going to see my friend Titus and his family today. He’s been in Canada and I haven’t seen him since his wedding.