I’m now a DBA in training. Or something. Most of my work will be on the data management code.
Fun!
Monthly Archives: March 2005
New Job Title
March 28, 2005 – 12:31 pm
For The Record
March 24, 2005 – 2:02 am
If several doctors say my brain is gone, please pull the plug.
If you’re unsure, whatever my wife says goes. And I guess it’s time to sign a durable power of medical attorney just in case.
Mac followup
March 21, 2005 – 10:48 am
I just went through the cleartype wizard again on my work (windows) box. It looks so much assier than the ibook I’ve been using all weekend.
New cult
March 21, 2005 – 10:41 am
I’ve joined the Mac cult with a purchase last week of an iBook. It’s ostensibly for Rebecca but I keep hauling off with it to sit in a corner and hack on Ugly.
I’ll try to write a little bit more about Ugly design later on today.
Ugly!
March 15, 2005 – 3:26 pm
No, not me.
I’m working on a database project with mrw. For lots of reasons, we’re doing it in Java. (ok, two reasons. JDBC exists; and Swing works on both OSX and Unix.) From time to time, I’ll probably post interesting design tidbits as I flesh out the basics.
Today’s design bit: [...]
Home!
March 15, 2005 – 3:30 am
Here are a few of the things I’ve done since I last posted:
Had a taxi driver get lost in China.
Caught the ferry to the Hong Kong airport by about 5 minutes.
Rode on a hydrofoil.
Had the ticket printer jam as I was trying to get my boarding pass.
Ate western-style “food” for the first time in 12 [...]
T-5:45
March 11, 2005 – 2:48 pm
almost all the way packed. The first ferry leaves at 7:45, hopefully I’ll be on it. Just need to take a shower, and walk through the apartment about 4 more times making sure I didn’t forget anything.
Pianosa Decommissioning
March 11, 2005 – 4:18 am
we’re finally making some progress. There’s even a plan!
T-16:15
March 11, 2005 – 4:17 am
Just got back from shopping. Holy crap, is this a lot of stuff. I’m exhausted. Now to get some dinner, then go pack.
T-22 Hours
March 10, 2005 – 10:06 pm
Til I’m on a plane. At this point, I just want to be home. And eating about 4 beef sandwiches from portillo’s.
