Posts from ‘June, 2004’

I'm contemplating "moving" a large portion of the material posted on this site to my "other" site. This would include my photography, poetry, prose, personal "journal" type entries, complaints about work, self evaluation, etc. What would remain here would be material of a technical nature: programming tips tricks and pitfalls, technology news, linux information, web [...]

After a mostly uneventful week, this weekend looks like it will be much more hectic and stressful. I've been working hard to manage my stress level lately; to remain calm in hectic situations; to remain focused and clear-headed in the face of many rushed deadlines. So, while this weekend will be a good test of [...]

This past week has been mostly uneventful. So uneventful, in fact, that I have to check my email log to remember what I did. Yep, just like I thought: nothing.
I did have my final appointment for tests yesterday. I got a VNG and a ECOG. The VNG was very interesting. The most horrible part is [...]

Sorry "guys":http://movabletype.org/, but you're "a day late and a dollar short":http://www.sixapart.com/log/2004/06/announcing_pric.shtml. People are already "moving along":http://www.wordpress.org/ and are starting to forget about you. And your latest version offers nothing new or innovative, so you're not giving them any reason to look again.
Had I been making the choices, I would have left the MovableType license [...]

Thanks to "Justin":http://gentlenews.com/, I received an invite to "GMail":http://gmail.com/ last night and have begun exploring all its wonder. All in all, I'm pretty impressed.
In testing it, however, I've been emailing Jess back and forth. In our most recent set of emails, we've been discussing her desire to go to Dairy Queen for some Ice Cream. [...]

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Our trip to the Trinity was fun, but not exactly as we planned. Justin M came with us and mentioned, when we arrived at his house, that the river was 7+ ft above flood level. I knew the river was flooded due to all the recent rain, but I didn't know [...]

Jess and I are going to Fry's to bring back the webcam that we bought. It doesn't work in Linux (or Windows, apparently). Then we're either going to buy another one there or hit up BestBuy (I have a gift certificate from last Christmas that I still haven't used) to find one.
After that, we're going [...]

Yesterday I had an MRI done. All in all, the procedure is quite scary.
You lay down on a table. Your head is placed in a precise position using lasers to line it up. Then, you are inseted into a tunnel where you lay for about 45 minutes while the test progresses. There is a small [...]

I was talking to Jess about this last night and I've decided that I need to start taking more pictures of people: Portraits with Style, if you will. Not Olan Mills or JCPenny type stuff… my stuff. The stuff I like. I need girls and guys; young people and old people; small people and large [...]

Another thing of note: the "jimCAM":http://revjim.net/cam/ has been revived.
It pretty much sucks right now. I use a chunk of javascript to give you a constantly refreshing view from the webcam. The webcam is old and image it produces is horrible. I'm talking Jess into letting me buy a new and better one. I'm sure the [...]