Technology

My new claim to fame

Well further to my message yesterday, it seems I have a new claim to fame. For 1 minute today I owned 38.5% of Slashdot in the Blogshares fantasy stock market. Confused? Of course you are, allow me to explain. At 12:09 p.m. Central time today I received the following e-mail: You have been given...

Aug 29, 2004 3 minute read.

Technology

How do you measure its worth

no, I’m not going to sing a christmas song… Earlier today JMac asked me if I played with the Blogshares fantasy stock game involving blogs as the “companies” that one is trading for. I had never been there before, but it sounded interesting so I setup a user there. I was surprised to find out...

Aug 27, 2004 1 minute read.

Blogging

Archive Tweaks

Ok, now that I’m using the application/xhtml+xml mime type instead of text/html, using a real browser shows you where you have improperly formatted W3C incompliant code on your pages. So I’ve gone through each and every blog entry and fixed the errors in my old badly formatted XHTML. I’ve also...

Aug 17, 2004 1 minute read.

Work

Busy Day

Spent much of the day working on fixing and moving the Deathstar, and dealing with the chaos that was caused by fixing and moving the Deathstar. Sadly the Deathstar seemed to blow a fuse in it’s wireless card and it’s connection to the internet was becoming incredibly intermittant. So my first...

Aug 17, 2004 3 minute read.

Life

Generosity of Others

I am starting a new tag in this blog called Praises. Here I will report some good things that are happening in my life, this way I can hit the Praises category button and look back at the blessings in my life. Yesterday (well Friday, so now the day before yesterday) I was working at the SWDCMA...

Aug 15, 2004 2 minute read.

Work

Burning the midnight oil

I came to the SWDCMA office at about 6:00 Saturday afternoon. As you can see from the datestamp on this entry, it is now almost 5 a.m. on Sunday morning. I’m still here. The reason I came here was to install the Battery Backup unit I mentioned in my earlier post, as well as install a modem that...

Aug 15, 2004 3 minute read.

Life

My Birthday

Well today was my birthday, I spent the vast majority of my day listening to Microsoft spokespeople telling me how great Microsoft is… But hey, it was a TS2 event so I get a free copy of Microsoft Office for giving them my time, and the seminars were quite enlightening. I learned several details...

Aug 10, 2004 2 minute read.

Life

He's gone!

David left yesterday to go to Washington (via Canada since all the flights to Seattle and Portland were all overbooked). His flight was delayed, delayed, and delayed again, so that though his original flight was supposed to leave at 4:30, his flight finally took off at 8:05 and arrived Vancouver...

Aug 02, 2004 1 minute read.

Work

Busy

Following my Restless night’s sleep I had a rather busy day. I received calls for support from the SWDCMA, from ERCC, and from FTMC. FTMC I handled over the phone, SWDCMA I started to handle remotely, but in the process of trying to fix their problem, I had to upgrade the firmware on their...

Jul 30, 2004 2 minute read.