Midlife

My coding sucks! I am working on a report where I have this huge text file that I have to munge, so I tried writing a program in Java. So far it got some of the information I wanted, but when I even look at the small piece of code I wrote, it’s like the coding of my algorithm is just bad and brittle. Sounds like I need to practice more.

Happy Birthday, me!

WOW!

I haven’t been here in a while!!! Guess the blogging bug has gone. A lot has happened, but maybe not worth blogging about.

I had the nice pleasure of getting my own laptop for work, and having a laptop for me would be the next best investment of my money, besides getting VMWare Workstation. I was able to put Xandros and Gentoo on it along with windows, the I put SUSE 9.3 in place of Xandros, then I just used the extra space for my Gentoo installation. I have been using this machine for some interesting ventures, including setting up LVM partitions on it and my own email server for some work related tasks. I plan on consolidating all those partitions into one partition, soon as I get some of this work out of the way.

One thing that I found was really cool is the fact the newspaper of my Alma Mater has gone completely online, and guess what??? RSS FEEDS! When I saw that I was like “Whoa!” It’s really simple to do, I’m sure, but to see my alma mater have such capability is refreshing.

I’ve been furling a lot lately. It seems like when I find a site that interests me, or has some information I want, I furl it, no questions asked. If you’d like to see where my mind has gone, I’ll share my list of sites, once I find out how.