My blog. Personal thoughts, anecdotes, and musings.
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.
I just finished up a nice long night of coding. I’m working on a new version of my web server management tool. When it’s done, users will be able to handle a lot of the awful administrative tasks from one simple interface. Some features include
dada is playing in Minneapolis at First Ave on May 30th. Unfortunately for me, I can’t go because I have to be at a wedding that weekend. Damn. I wanted to see them twice.
My daughter is home again, and she’s driving me nuts… but that’s
good because in a strange way, you get to the point where you miss
that. We played together today and watched the new Simpsons episode
that was on tonight. Then, as I was reading her bedtime story, she
passed out. It’s never been easier than that to get her to bed!
It’s snowing here. My high school closed today…. why can’t they have closed this much when I was in school? It could be that since we hanven’t had much snow in the last few years, everyone up there forgot how to handle it. Today should prove interesting. I have a doctor’s appointment this afternoon at my wife’s prodding. I made the mistake of telling her I haven’t been in for a physical in quite some time, so she’s making me go.
I went out to Sam’s Club tonight to get some food and some other stuff. I ran into an old buddy of mine from college while I was walking into the store. I haven’t seen him in over a year, and I found out that he is still going to Eau Claire. He’s graduating next year. It was good to see him.