Archive for the 'work' Category

The Road Goes On

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006

I just finished my career at Greenville College today. It has been a great place to work for the past 4 1/2 years. I am going to miss all of my co-workers in IT. They are an amazing group of people. If I didn’t have enough memories from the past [...]

Lazy or Impatient?

Wednesday, May 25th, 2005

Man, I really enjoy programming in Python. I mean, it is really fun. Like digital Play-Doh.
I took an idea from, um, idea to socket-based networked client application with IP based security in one afternoon. Then, I continued with the idea and made a socket-based networked controller application that reads its configuration data [...]

Microsoft’s New Mantra

Friday, April 22nd, 2005

FORTUNE - Microsoft’s New Mantra: “It Just Works”
Interesting article.
My favorite quote:
Microsoft’s research shows that the average corporate employee spends about 20% of her time on the PC simply looking for items.
Are they serious? Methinks that personal organization skills need some work, not operating systems. And I’m not even a super organized person. [...]

a new start

Friday, August 27th, 2004

Today marked the start of a new school year. Freshman and teary-eyed parents arrived. There is a very exciting buzz at the beginning of a new year of school; Maybe it’s just the tons of stuff that all needs to get done before the beginning of the year. Or maybe it’s [...]