I regret everyday that passes that I do not write here. Blogging has a natural calming effect, I think, as I spill my thoughts into the browser for all to see. I can give excuse after excuse for not writing more, but I guess it … Read More →
Category Archives: Work
Buried Alive
As the days pass, my work continues to pile on faster than I can complete it. I’m buried. I’ve decided that I’m going to dig my way to China.
Motivation
!(alignright)http://www.sensoryoutput.com/wp-images/postings/sad_me.png(Me. Kyle Rove)! What motivates people? This question applies to our lives on a multitude of levels: minute to minute, day to day, and life to death. As intelligent creatures, we have the capacity to incline ourselves to perform the mundane, necessary tasks required of … Read More →
Email, the tool of the lazy
Email has reshaped the business landscape, purporting to save time and money on communication of ideas and thoughts between workers. In an ideal world, such would be the case but several factors impede reaching such a utopian state with respect to the use of email. … Read More →
Construction Update
Yesterday, I “floated some mud” (a technical phrase, for sure) and laid the whole tiles for a job I have been working. It is pretty easy, but after six hours straight, my knees hurt like hell. Today, I move on to the tile saw and … Read More →
Panic Attack!
AHHH! When a customer calls you and informs you that the website that you have been slaving over and already gone live is broken, you panic. I know I just did. I finished with the site over a month ago, and the customer moved on … Read More →
Safari and Alternative Stylesheets
I have been working on “FREE-CMA.net”:http://www.free-cma.net lately, and I have put most of the finishing touches on the site. One of the last pieces of the puzzle that I wanted to complete was a print-media alternative stylesheet. Most modern browsers now honor @media=”print”@ stylesheets when … Read More →
AttorneyGuide.com goes live!
After four weeks working on this project (part time only, mind you), I made "AttorneyGuide.com":http://www.attorneyguide.com/ live this morning.
Job search
Granted, a lot of us can do all of these things. I’ve done my share of systems administration and scripting, and I know plenty of you could pull off most of these requirements as well. But should we? And do we want to?
Ah, Done at Last
On schedule, the _new_ “Department of Chemistry”:http://www.chem.unr.edu site has gone live. The site is a great improvement graphically over the old site, offering up a modern CSS/XHTML layout that degenerates nicely to a text-only version in older and text-based browsers. As with every site design, … Read More →