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Been busy at work this week. I’m the king of JSP refactoring now. I’ve been tackling various issues in implementing a JSP/Struts/Tiles application with a mind towards IL8N. One of the biggest hurdles I’ve cleared (yeah! even my architect liked the solution I’ve come up with…I’m finally grasping this design stuff and design patterns!), is […]
Posted at: January 21st, 2005 - 5:07 pm - Number of Comments » 2
I love this:
Postal experiment
They mailed stuff from the weird to the gross, wrapped and unwrapped to see how the USPS would handle. I’m impressed with how much they did deliver. And of course, my favorite underdog government arm has always been the USPS. It’s the only government division that is profitable! Those people work hard […]
Posted at: January 17th, 2005 - 4:04 pm - Number of Comments » 3
As promised, here’s a pic from Friday at my work. We had a dress up day to see who could look the ugliest. Since almost no one participated, Misty, Brian and I each won the reserved parking prize.
Here’s Misty and I looking our fab fugliest:
Posted at: January 17th, 2005 - 3:40 pm - Number of Comments » 2
It’s Monday. Bleh. Work is slow. I missed my 9:00 meeting this morning. I’m sorry, set a meeting for 9 on Monday, and you’re gonna be lucky if I make it!
Caught the Battlestar Galactica series premiere on SciFi last night. Awesome!!! Really looking forward to where they’ll take this series. They have some good […]
Posted at: January 17th, 2005 - 11:01 am - Number of Comments » 2
Had a fantastic weekend, guess I’m ready for another week of work. We didn’t do much Friday night, but on Saturday I was busy: rock climbing, train show with my dad and Ian, and then dinner and a wine tasting with piano music with my mom. Whew! The wine/piano event didn’t turn out to be […]
Posted at: January 16th, 2005 - 9:47 pm - Number of Comments » 2
I just quoted part of a well-known Steve Martin monologue (from the good days of Saturday Night Live) in a reply to a comment, and I wanted to post the whole thing (not from memory, rather, but from whysanity.net).
It’s a funny-because-it’s-true summary of how (at least for me), we want to help other people, solve […]
Posted at: January 14th, 2005 - 4:04 pm - Number of Comments » 0
A really interesting article in the Dallas Observer (every now and then they have a true gem of journalism that actually reveals something honest and unpolished about DFW, something the Dallas Morning News NEVER does) about Mayates, titled ‘Gay Cabelleros‘. Not exactly like the African-American phenomenon of the ‘down low’ (Straight married men hooking up […]
Posted at: January 14th, 2005 - 12:30 pm - Number of Comments » 4
Today was “Clean up day” at work. We were supposed to go through our offices and throw away old stuff, clean up our e-mail, etc. The nice thing was we got to wear jeans and tennis shoes. To have a little fun, our manager had a dress up contest: whoever dressed the ugliest would win […]
Posted at: January 14th, 2005 - 11:38 am - Number of Comments » 2
Whew! I’ve been pouring stuff out recently for the Skylands world setting I’ve come up with, the first novel is beginning to flesh out. I really like some of the unusual stuff I’m coming up with (yet it feels like it all comes together too). It’s over on my other ‘creativity’ blog:
Creativity Palette
Posted at: January 13th, 2005 - 11:19 pm - Number of Comments » 0
On request here is an image from the new camera (featuring the new puppy!). It’s about 500 KB. MovableType wouldn’t let me post the original 1.8 MB high res pic. There’s a LOT of detail in a 4 MP pic!!
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Posted at: January 13th, 2005 - 4:16 pm - Number of Comments » 0