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Wow, a lot’s happened in the past couple weeks where I work. The biggest thing for me personally was that I got a new job! I’m still working at Polycom, but I gave up my job as a QA Manager to become an engineer again. I’ve been doing technical management for 9 years now, and… Continue reading lots of changes in my work life

I’m selling this.

CNN.com – SpaceShipOne captures X Prize – Oct 4, 2004 – Wow, they did it! I know it sounds cruel or maybe pessimistic, but I figured that one of the 3 flights would end in disaster, given that this has never been done before.

I had the most infuriatingly bad technical support experience yesterday, with Hewlett-Packard. All I was trying to do was make my networked printer work with my new PC. Somewhere along the way in transferring stuff from the old to the new, Windows XP lost its printer settings. So I uninstalled the printer and the driver… Continue reading typical bad technical support

You know what I want for my Windows XP PC? I want some software that I can run and it’ll make other applications’ windows snap to a grid on the desktop. In other words, I want it to be that when I resize the window for any program, it’ll only resize in increments of N… Continue reading snap to grid software

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) – Beth and I just got back from this movie. It was good fun. I’m surprised IMDB users haven’t rated it higher.

I’m now totally switched over to my new PC, which I called Barracuda. I moved it over to my desk, after tossing my old PC aside. I’ll come back to that later and install Linux on it. In other news, I got 3 vaccines today: tetanus, hepatitis A, and hepatitis B. They said I need… Continue reading the switch is made

request – I enjoyed this. I imagine this budding young actor had a good time making it.

Lowercase Tee – If I had a kid, I’d buy one of these.

The New York Times > Technology > After Foray Into Space, Pilot Says Rocket ‘Flew Like a Dream’ – 2 down, 1 to go!