Posts from ‘June, 2003’

I am so frustrated. I don't know why. Every message that pops up on my screen annoys me. Every time a hear a phone ring, I want to run outside. I can hear someone else's music, just barely — some screaming country bitch and a very annoying fiddle. It's driving me crazy. I don't have [...]

I'll give 500,000 points to anyone who can come up with a database table design to handle the following functionality in a clean way.
I need to implement a filesystem that consists of both directories and files. The directories should be limitlessly nestable. There should be only one root directory. Each item should have a name, [...]

I've gotten a lot of the apartment stuff taken care of.
First of all, I called South Western Bell. They agreed that I don't owe them any money. I had them look up that specific account to be certain and they said that it was closed and paid in full last June. They are sending me [...]

The break from coding Inklog was good. I talked to my dad, one of the only people I can talk to about code and have them understand everything I have to say the first time around, and he gave me some great ideas on how to make Inklog faster and perform exactly as I want [...]

I've been playing with bBlog, an up and comming blogging engine, in my spare time. It is written pretty well and is fairly easy to use. I actually migrated my blog to that engine completely. However, I never put it online because there were a few features it lacked that I really wanted. I implemented [...]

Jess and I finally settled on an apartment to move into on July 25th: Tuscany Villas in Plano, TX. Yesterday, we were both talking about how excited we were to be moving into a new place and how much both really liked it. Seemingly, minutes after we had that conversation, I got a call from [...]

Jess and I are going to see A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court this evening at Hip Pocket Theatre. If you're interested in coming, give me a call. Or just call them and make reservations, and we'll see you there.

If you know anything about database design, I'd appreciate your help for a minute.
Imagine I have a table with these fields: id, parent_id, data. It holds data arranged in a tree. The tree can have an unlimited number of branches but only one trunk. I would like to add a permissions mechanism to this data. [...]

I'm not perfect. I never have been. I probably never will be. Yet I continue to require perfection of myself. I set my goals too high. I demand nothing but the best and I won't settle for anything in between. I become frustrated when I desire something that my mind cannot comprehend, or create. Instead [...]

Perfectionism is a disease. It is a plague consuming all of my thoughts. It is a barracade that leads to procrastination, fatigue, and mediocrity. If only I could settle for "who cares".