Monthly Archive for May, 2003
Job Searching
Posted in life on May 28th, 2003
I have been focused on my job situation for the past few weeks. My current contract ends on June 30th and there is some question as to whether I’ll get another contract here or not.
In the past when I’ve been faced with this kind of situation I’ve gone off my tracks a bit and reacted [...]
And the Truth Shall Set Us Free
Posted in elsewhere, social issues on May 23rd, 2003
My wife, Michele, discovered this copy of Senator Robert Byrd’s comments on the Senate floor on May 21, 2003.
You should go read it.
Then you should tell everyone you know to go read it.
What Lies Underneath
Posted in life on May 16th, 2003
For several days now I have been avoiding my emotions. My employment situation is tense at best, and lately it hasn’t even approached best. Last evening I had a very emotional breakdown that allowed me to express what was going on for me.
It felt good to open up about all the stuff I was feeling [...]
1.44 Songs Per Second
Posted in nerdliness on May 14th, 2003
In this press release, Apple announces that they’ve sold over 2 million songs in the 16 days since the iTunes Music store went live. By my math that’s an average of 1.44 songs per second. Steve Jobs says that over half the songs downloaded from the service so far are part of an album purchase, [...]
This Space Not Intentionally Left Blank
Posted in nerdliness on May 14th, 2003
Contrary to recent indications, this space is not intentionally left blank. The code I was using to structure my new site layout breaks under some browsers, most especially Camino.
I have discovered the offending script and removed it from the main page, however, the other pages of my site are still corrupt. Hopefully by this evening [...]
Blind As A Bat
Posted in life on May 13th, 2003
Gizmodo Mention
Posted in nerdliness on May 12th, 2003
Happy Mother’s Day
Posted in life on May 11th, 2003
Revamped
Posted in nerdliness on May 11th, 2003
I have started the process of rebuilding my site with a new style. I am pleased with the overall structure of things so far. I still need to hammer out some of the details and clean up some of my HTML and CSS code.
Please feel free to use the comments feature to point out any [...]