My web hosting provider was bought out by another provider. That new provider has now "upgraded" my old account by moving it to their servers. So now all my CGI scripts aren't working, and I can't use FTP or SSH to fix them. Grrr.
Thank you iQuest Hosting.
I bought an iPod mini yesterday. It felt good to buy an Apple product again, after giving up on the Macintosh a few years back.
I've started exercising (This time I'll stick with it! Really!), and so I wanted a music player to help pass the time and to keep …
I remember, when I was young and foolish, that I was always excited at the beginning of a new project. I saw the opportunity to create something new and perfect. I expected to learn new things with new friends. I was always optimistic.
Now things are much different. When a …
Now that I am going to be a "lead" again, I'm reviewing what I've done wrong in the past. My last stint as a manager was the worst professional experience of my life, and I don't want to repeat it.
One good thing about my new project is that I'm …
Why do they keep doing this to me? I was just minding my own business, writing buggy software more slowly than expected. But they've made me a manager again. I'm the "lead engineer" on a "highly visible" project. It's a "great opportunity", generating "a lot of excitement" in upper management …
I hate to neglect my blog, but I've been too busy the past couple of months. According to my timesheets, I've been working over 250 hours/month. This needs to change.
Being deluged with too much work has got me thinking about my desired amount of work. I know that …
Well, my project at work is nearing its deadline, which means we are all working 70-80 hours a week without any days off.
This is dumb. Dumb, dumb, dumb. I'm stupid for doing it, and the people I work with are just as stupid. But we're doing it anyway. Why …
The MSDN feed indicates that there are several new walkthroughs available today:
I've reached the point where I can "hover out" a battery pack. That is, I can hover the helicopter without crashing until the battery runs out. This is much harder than it might sound. Hovering a micro-helicopter is much like riding a unicycle, with an extra dimension. Keeping the thing …