Jello Brain

Well my brain has the consistancy of jello. I’ve spent the whole weekend caught in a whirlwind of architecture and code. I have a project that needs to be well underway before I head out on vacation this week and in a non-manager style pledged to do my bit. This involved me writing some actually tough code that took me back in time so to speak. I had recently been commenting to a collegue that it has been a long time since I used any of that knowledge that was so stridently fought for during my undergrad years. [Read More]

Random Picture of the Day - 12/21/2003

Well, it’s not much of a picture but a pretty good achievment. My good old car has finally crossed over the 200,000 mile mark and doesn’t show any signs of wanting to quit now. Shot with my Canon S200. [Read More]

Random Picture of the Day - 12/16/2003

Last snow shot for this series, I promise. ;) A shot of some ice laden branches outside my parent’s house. I get stuck on themes and I can’t quit sometimes. Shot with my Canon S200. [Read More]

Great Nerd Article

Once again I was beaten to the punch. I had been rambling and boring the hell out of my co-workers on this same subject about two weeks ago. But it looks like someone had already written a whole book on the subject and Joel beat me with the summary. However, this excellent piece points out that there are two radically different cultures between the UNIX (and I’ll even say Open-Source) developers and Windows developers in so far that they are solving two different problems. [Read More]