Coding

You know you spend too much time coding when program solutions you’re cracking your head over at work come to you while driving or doing ANYTHING but coding. And then you have to wait till you get to work to see if your solution works or not. Sometimes it does … sometimes it doesn’t. This [...]

Notepad++

This is a post probably only John might appreciate … though Marc and Aaron might enjoy it too.
A co-worker has introduced me to a new (well new to me) text editor called Notepad++. Its essentially a text editor like MS Notepad but suped up. It’s geared towards programmers but the casual user can enjoy it [...]

Screwed Up

This morning I gave a short demo presentation of an online form that people at my place of work will soon use. I’d given the same presentation to a smaller group last week. They were impressed enough to ask me to present it to a committee meeting of administrators today. When I was given the [...]

Energizer does NOT keep you going

At work we were given wireless Bluetooth keyboards and mice. Thing is they are battery driven, obviously, so when your batteries die, so does your keyboard or mouse. To counter that they gave us Engergizer rechargeable batteries with a handy dandy little charger.
Well my office-mate(?) (guy I share my office with) his batteries died on [...]

Quick Hitters – For Reals This Time

My car’s muffler got jacked up last weekend. It’s better now thanks to some grace and favor from the Lord. Praise God.
Univ of Texas AND the Cowboys lost this weekend. Suck.
My office is COLD and there is no way to control the thermostat.
I don’t think I’m going to be able to vote tomorrow because I [...]

Frustrated

I started writing a rant about frustrations I’m feeling at the lack of leadership in one of the teams I work on. I decided to scrap it because: 1) It’s hard to concisely explain something that has been brewing over the last 4 weeks and to fill in the back story behind it all, and [...]

Relatively Quick Hitters

Seeing as my last attempt at “Quick Hitters” was met with contempt since they were less than quick. I decided to title this one “Relatively Quick Hitters” since I know I’m more than likely to say more than a few words about the following topics.
My office seems to be in JUST the wrong place in [...]

Midmorning Update

WARNING: Includes programming/IT content. 
Ok so I’ve spent the last two hours combing over a short program that essentially creates a text file with a small “Hello” message and saves it in a previously created directory. The whole thing is probably 20 lines of code. Not that big. This is not for an assignment [...]

New Job Thoughts

I know it’s been a long time since I last posted but I’ve had to get adjusted to a new job. Plus I have not had the liberty (till now) to surf the Internet. But I wanted to get in a post about my new job.
Well I’ve been here for two weeks now. At my [...]

For Whom the Bell Tolls

I had a departmental meeting earlier today. Without getting into the specifics, I’ll start by saying that the company I work for has been going through the process of a merger for the last year and a half or so. Like any time of uncertainty, rumors run rampant about people’s future and the future of [...]