Monthly ArchiveFebruary 2004



personal 24 Feb 2004 06:06 pm

strobe effects

ah, the epilleptic flicker of the flourescent light… so soothing, so… *convulses*

school 24 Feb 2004 04:11 am

It’s just one semester…

Another gem from my English class… this is the thesis statement from a classmate’s paper.

Defining the definition of mentor means many different things.

And here are some more sentences from his paper:

Mentoring for those people who truly are looking for a mentor stares them right in the face.
For most children whom have a father and\or mother is their lives, looks at them as their mentor.
Rev. King still today after many years, his words of none violence lives.
Who believed in his words walked stride for stride beside Reverend King?

professional & geek 23 Feb 2004 10:21 pm

No music

I have all my music on a portable hard drive. It’s very nice - I have about 8 GB of music, and I don’t feel bad about using up space on my work computer. So far it has worked very nicely. I considered getting an iPod, or something similar, but I couldn’t justify the prize. I also wasn’t sure I would use it. So I got a disk drive enclosure for $25, put in a hard drive I had laying around, and presto-whammo! I have a portable music drive. It’s pretty slick.

The problem exists when I take it home to do some file swapping on non-networked computers. Then I forget to bring it back. That sucks. So I’m sitting here at work with no music, wishing people would stop talking.

dang it.

professional & geek 20 Feb 2004 08:56 pm

virtuality

Well, I’m finally doing it. I’m making my first Virtual Disk Image, and I’m going to put Windows Server 2003, BizTalk 2004 (Beta for now - the release is in march), and InfoPath. I want to test out BizTalk’s new features. I installed BizTalk 2000 back when it was Beta and played around with some tutorials. Good stuff. Supposedly 2004 blows it away though. It should - they’ve had 3 iterations now to get it right.

Then my boss wants me to look into the Adapter for HIPAA. Basically, the gov’t require health organizations to treat insurance paperwork a special way. There are all these different form types for different requests. They all need to be handled differently. This adapter has all those rules built in. Should save a bunch of time and money.

So I’m formatting my virtual drive. It’s fun. Gives me time to blog.

geek 20 Feb 2004 07:37 pm

music

The song I was listening to in my last post was annoying. I had to skip to the next one. In case anyone was wondering.

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