1. Work/Programming No change so far with my work situation. I’m employed through the end of the year.. and still up in the air as to what will happen next year. One note of concern: last week the company laid off all of the System Administrators in the San Francisco office(probably 8 people that I know of). This does not…
Five Things: Catching up
1. Work/Programming No change so far with my work situation. I’m employed through the end of the year.. and still up in the air as to what will happen next year. Well ok.. there was a little change. A few weeks ago, while I was out on PTO, I received an email from the CTO asking me what I know…
Friday Five: Ringing in the New Year
I can’t help but note here that the world did indeed not end on December 21st 2012. I haven’t yet heard the new end date.. but I will continue development (on my life) until a new date is officially announced. 1. Work/Programming So this is what a Lame Duck Engineer feels like :D. The current plan is to continue to…
Five Things on a Monday – November 2012 is fired… December is on notice
**WARNING INCOMING TMI** I’ll cut here to save your fragile eyes. Summary: Bad things happened. Change is scary. We’re ok, we’ll get past this. “Everything works out okay in the end. If it’s not ok then it’s not the end”
Five Things on a Monday – Winds of change
1. Work/Programming How many different ways can I say “I’m working busily on the same thing I work on last week”? Winds of change are blowing at work. Interesting to see where they go. I don’t exactly like it.. but it is what it is. 2. Home On Friday furniture-man delivered a dining room table and 6 chairs (correction, he…
Movie: Looper ***Spoiler***
I’ve decided I don’t like the ending of the movie Looper (I’d say I don’t like the movie.. but it has Bruce Willis.. and what’s not to love?). ***Spoilers Below***
Five Things on a Monday
1. Work/Programming Last week I did a cart-before-the-horse and presented a design for the prototype I’ve been working on for the last 2-3 weeks. There was still good feedback from the group.. but it was kind of nice to be able to say “it works this way” instead of “I kind of think it might maybe work this way.. but…
Friday Five – Miss me?
You know how whenever someone stops blogging regularly it’s because they’ve fallen off the wagon.. or something dire has happened? Yeah, not so much. A lot has happened.. and honestly I don’t think any of it was bad. I’ve been busy busy busy and haven’t had time (or in some cases Internet access). So I’ll take a bit to bring…
Five Things – Feeling All Accomplished
I wrote this before I left for Pennsic.. and forgot to post it. So.. just pretend you saw this a week an a half ago. 1. Work/Programming I’ve started back up with doing Work Friday Fives. At the end of each week I send a quick note to my boss letting him know what I’m working on, what I’m stuck…
Friday Five – Batrachomyomachy
1. Work/Programming “Let me ‘splain.. no .. is too long.. let me summarize”.. this week I took things that had gotten out of sync and made them be back in sync again. It’s boring to explain.. but honestly this is the kind of thing I like to do.. well ok.. no.. not really like.. but if it isn’t done it…