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The wine party just ended, and I thought I’d blog it. But dangit, Ian’s once again beat me to the punch! It is 2:30 in the morning, I’m tired and still a little buzzed (we’re not so classy that we spit out the wine! pshhaww…what would be the point?). But I had a great time. […]


Posted at: September 19th, 2004 - 2:42 am - Number of Comments » 5

But fortunately, so is my presentsight (or whatever it’s called!). Well, actually I’m seeing closer to 20/25 as Ian will be quick enough to point out! But I’ve been very happy with the Lasik. I mention it because I go in for another checkup today. I can get the wavefront lasik touchup done (I […]


Posted at: September 16th, 2004 - 9:29 am - Number of Comments » 4

Too funny. Found the link for this from my RSS feed from BoingBoing. It’s that little warning brochure you find in the back of the seat in front of you on an airplane ride for what appears to be a Russian airline.
Looks like you need to watch out for space aliens and red blobs […]


Posted at: September 16th, 2004 - 9:24 am - Number of Comments » 2

Getting comment spam again so user registration has been turned on for a little while. I’ll disable it soon, promise!
In other news had a fairly good one on one with my manager. Good feedback, but when they put their money where their mouths are so to speak then I’ll really sit up and listen. […]


Posted at: September 14th, 2004 - 12:50 pm - Number of Comments » 0

Who’d’ve thunk? haven’t written poetry in a while. Seeing rain on some tv show recently I had a zen moment and thought about how rain makes you feel: introspective, happy, a little sad. Things are growing, but you’re cooped up inside. Rain is wonderfully zen. It’s inevitable. It has it’s pros and cons. So this […]


Posted at: September 13th, 2004 - 10:04 pm - Number of Comments » 0

Some random tidbits:
I possibly have an entry on my blog from someone famous! (Or, more than likely, their PR firm or agent or something). Go through the archives to August and scroll down to my entry on August 2nd and checkout the comments. Is it really Imogen Heap? I did a reverse lookup on […]


Posted at: September 12th, 2004 - 8:10 pm - Number of Comments » 2

Well, I know you’ve all been missing me! Training this week ended up being fairly fast paced and I didn’t have any time to surf the web. How dare they? When I got home in the evenings the last thing I wanted to do was get on the net. Learned a lot, but the […]


Posted at: September 12th, 2004 - 12:20 am - Number of Comments » 1

Day one of four days of IBM Websphere training has started. So far we’re almost an hour in and have no instructor, we’ve changed rooms, and we’re in complete disarray on what software needs to be installed, who has the CDs, etc.
Doesn’t it sound like fun? I am SO thankful I have net access (and […]


Posted at: September 7th, 2004 - 9:19 am - Number of Comments » 2

Finally, we might start getting answers to life’s important questions like this. At least if we’re in the new Acura RL.
Finally, a car that talks back
A built in text-to-speech and voice recognition navigation system. These systems are cool and all, but they’ve been around a while. I’m more impressed when cool technologies are integrated from […]


Posted at: September 2nd, 2004 - 10:16 am - Number of Comments » 4

So I come back to my desk the other day from lunch and lo and behold there is this huge box of Empirix software and manuals on my desk. Empirix is an automated load testing application which we use here at work, and I also happen to have nothing absolutely to do with. It’s been […]


Posted at: September 1st, 2004 - 4:28 pm - Number of Comments » 7