Moving to a new job … staying with Xerox.
Well, it’s past time I posted this, since I know a lot of you have been aware through various sources that I’ve been looking for a job — I’ve accepted an offer from Xerox Global Services (XGS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Xerox Corporation. So basically, I’m staying at Xerox for now, but at the [...]
Creation Festival (Tour) Concert …
Jars of Clay via last.fmSo this evening we went to a concert to see Jars of Clay and Audio (Adrenaline) Unplugged… they were very good, as expected. I have to say I had a lot of fun partly because it was the first actual rock concert that I’ve convinced my wife to go to in [...]
Trying to restart blogging …
Ok, so it’s been awhile since I blogged faithfully. I got really busy leading up to the Scripting Games, and then I got even busier afterward … and then I just got distracted. In fact, I have about 9 “drafts” posts queued up in WordPress that I started and never finished, so what I probably [...]
Personal News Update
Well, I feel like I left some of you hanging (those who read my blog but don’t follow me on Twitter or Facebook or FriendFeed or … something) ... I aced my Master’s Defense Which is to say, I got the highest grade possible for my project (yes, RIT grades your Master’s project when you [...]
Helpful Mom goes live!
This is just a short note to let you know that after much persuasion from various of her friends, my wife has started her own blog to write about parenting, being a stay-at-home mother of preschoolers, saving money by shopping smarter, and in general … all the many things she does. It’s called Helpful Mom [...]
SysAdmins, scripters, developers and memes
So, I’ve been called out on this latest meme posting by /\/\o\/\/ and although I usually just ignore these things, As with any curious developer, I had to trace this thing back to it’s root cause … it turns out this started as a Software Development thing, and it was altered into a sort of [...]
Crazy Work Week
Here’s a snippet from the latest update to my resumé ... you’ll notice I struck out the “create” portion of the descriptions — as long as we just talk about maintenance and support tasks, everything you see here is what I did in just the last two weeks since one of my teammates transferred to [...]
Windows – No Disk
So this goes in the “WORSE THAN FAILURE” bucket … I got an email from my dad this week wondering if I knew “What in the world is this message that keeps coming up every time we start Mom’s computer? It began appearing right after I inserted the removable hard drive to do the most [...]
Starkly Esses
She sells sea shells by the sea shore. She sees someone slowly strolling, simply strolling by the seashore. She sees someone sighing, slowly strolling. Sighing sadly, he is strangely silent, slowly sidling down the sidewalk. Slowly strolling sadly by the sea shore. She steps softly somewhat closer, sees his eyes shift slightly toward her. In [...]