No I Don't Write Dilbert

When you work in the technical industry you will find yourself reading Dilbert a lot. As I read them I send the links/images to my coworkers to point out how almost everything Dilbert goes through we go through. That in turns begs the question that I get at work, "Do you write Dilbert comics"? No I don't but the man who does is a genius.

PS2 Repairs

I have just successfully fixed my old PS2! You might recall from my earlier blogs that I had a PS2 that crapped out on me. I kept getting the infamous Disc Read Error that plagued the first wave of PS2s. I went out and bought a new one and have been using it since. I actually got a good deal for the new one. $150 for the console, network adapter, and a free game that I haven't played yet. Anyhow, I never trashed the old one so for a while I was contemplating on what to do with it. Well I fixed it and now have a second PS2 and no clue what to do with it. Oh well!

Quote

To err is human, but when the eraser wears out before the pencil, you're overdoing it a little.

King of your throne!

I just saw this on slashdot! I seems that some has found a way to turn the annoyingly abundant AO-hell CDs into something useful.

I made the old new

Ok, I know that this is considered a travesty to some if not a lot of geeks out there but I have to say it. I am just now playing Half Life. No not Half Life 2, Half Life! I have never Half Life nor Counter Strike until recently. I found the Half Life Platinum Collectors box at the store so I decided to give it a try. 5 Half Life games for 30 dollars. I installed it last night and I'll be playing it over the weekend. Geeks, please forgive me.

Home for Christmas

We just came from our house and we have carpet in now. We still don't have a driveway yet but we have carpet. The arch as has been fixed and it looks good so we're just waiting for them to finish the trim and prep the house for the walk thru. Thus we should be moving in on the 10th of December!

Plans

Our anticipated closing date for our house is November 23. That's our date until something interesting happened. While checking in on our house I noticed that our arch on the porch was a little low. In fact, the top of the ach is 82" from the ground! That’s less than seven feet! I called our builder and basically told him that we're not closing until it’s fixed. Coincidently the builder has not been able to contact his brick expert. Probably because he knows that he's in deep trouble. It turns out that there are five like houses. All of the houses have different arches! Two of the houses have the same arch just at different elevations. Our house and another like ours are too low and another doesn't even have an arch. So in the long run we'll probably be closing the following week which will push back our move in date. Any Thanksgiving Plans I had are now up in the air.

Christmas should be better. We're going up to Dallas to visit the family. Both sides of my family live in the Big D and we haven't seen them for almost a year. In fact the last time we saw them was on our wedding day, which means with everything going on we didn't really see them. My dad whom I haven't seen since January will also be coming down from South Dakota. It will be great to see him again! We were planning on going up to OKC too but that's been ruled out. Either way, this will be a good Christmas break. Especially since Steph and I will be married for one year as of January 3!

Double Talk

Well, it seems that once again we've been screwed. We were told that one of our clients would configure their web server in preparation for our ASP.NET-Mono-MySQL application. Then yesterday about an hour and a half before I left we were told that we would have to configure their server and install our application. Not too bad of a demand in itself except for the fact that we only get 1 hour to do it. The entire time we were developing this app, we were asking for a box to simulate the clients running environment. We got a box when were 90% done with the app but we were not able to run the same distro. That entire situation sucked big time with no real requirements/specs and we never developed and tested under the correct environment. Oh well, lets just get this over and done with.

Making the switch

No I'm not talking about IE to Firefox, I did that back when it was called Firebird. It seems that we will be switching from ASP.NET to JSP! This is a welcomed changed for the most part coming off of the difficulties we've had with our last application. We had to make an ASP.NET web application for a MySQL Database( not supported) that would be hosted on a Linux box (Mono development) and need to generate PDFs (again, not supported). We did it but it was interesting to say the least. Anyhow, I'm familiar with Java having come from a Java background and then developing with C#, so I'm not concerned about that. I am concerned about handling Autopostback functionality in JSP. The only thing that I really liked about ASP was their Autopostback functionality. Select an item in a listbox, and I could easily populate another listbox. I haven't been able to find anything similar in JSP. It's not a problem with forms however. In fact Java has more functionality than the .NET platform. This will be an interesting switch...

Casa de Kerr update

Things are moving really fast with our house. We will be closing the 23 of this November! I'm a little skeptical though. They still need to brick the front of the house and grain the back yard. Though, they have done a great job and have always been moving at a fast pace. Anyhow, we'll be moving in the first weekend of December. I was planning on enjoying my Turkey Day :-)