My blog. Personal thoughts, anecdotes, and musings.
Going on vacation is bad, primarily because coming back from vacation and staring at a huge to-do list is an awful feeling. All I wanted to do today was go outside and goof off. Unfortunately, a lot of things happened while I was gone and I got to clean some of them up. It’s interesting to see how things fall apart when I’m gone. Some things that people were having trouble with “miraculously” fixed themselves now that I’m back.
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Thursday night was just awesome. I was at Harlem Ave. Lounge with Neal and it was the open jam night. As we walked in, we noticed that they had keyboards there this time, so I didn’t have to play the guitar. We signed up and ended up being the first ones on.
Well it’s one day late, but it’s finally here. After getting my domain stuff straightened out, I sat down to watch The Simpsons. It was a pretty funny one, with a few jokes that were just mean (but funny nonetheless.) Enjoy these fabulous web links too. Sony adds DVD +/- RW drives to PlayStation 2 in Japan! (Lots of ads, scroll a bit) Four students arrested in New Orleans school shooting Human genome project finally completed
Here I am, outside, nerding it up on my blog while my daughter plays in the
sand. It’s just so cool how technology works!. The weather out today is just
awesome. It’s in the high 80s but it’s really not too bad because of this great
breeze. I have a patio on the north side of my house , so we can sit in the
shade and relax. We bought a sandbox for Ana and she is just loving it. We’ve
been outside for about an hour now and she hasn’t even gotten the slightest
bit bored yet. I like this idea because I can sit out here and spend time with
her and also get some work done. sl
After nearly a week offline, my site is back. There were some serious problems with the DNS Management host I use. It took 5 days for my DNS changes to take effect, and during that time my site was largely unavailable. That put my email down too so I may have missed some stuff. I’m looking at buying some space and hosting the web front-end on another server so that DNS management is easier.
Sony patents “Shock and Awe” Sometimes I hate work. I enjoy working there, but I hate the fact that I have so much to do that I can’t ever get ahead. I have a lot of projects to do and a lot of things I want to learn. Today, I got some more information from Mike Morrison regarding the .Net framework and Visual Studio. I’m really excited about that, and I am also interested in working on a versioning system for source code and project files.
The class went great, but man I am going to have to kick it into gear to get a few things done by Wednesday. I have to work on a portal mockup using Sharepoint, and I have to come up with some standards for our new custom error pages project I started. We need to work all of the dull details out, like our generic responses, what kind of data we want to record, and who to notify.
Today is a teaching day. I’m spending most of my day prepping for a class. I will be teaching “Web Design Considerations for Disabled Users” and “Advanced Web Authoring with Dreamweaver” to a large group of trainers here at the university. We want to get everyone in line with our web philosophy so that teachers, staff, and students are all teaching and learning the same concepts. So today I am revising my slides and looking for some new relevant information about the subjects.
It appears that the RIAA wasn’t bluffing. They’re suing some college students for sharing copyrighted material over their campus networks. More lawsuits are expected if companies don’t heed their warnings.