Monthly Archives: February 2004

Plan for the year

I’m excited about the upcoming projects here at work. Here’s what’s going on: Migrate enterprise JSP application running on Oracle, Tomcat, Jakarta, & Java 1.3 (or is it 1.4?) into an ASP.NET (C#) app running on SQL Server 2000, IIS … Continue reading

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unix stuff

In case anyone is wondering, yes I have used the services for UNIX. No, not just for ls. I did this: tr [a-mn-zA-MN-Z] [n-za-mN-ZA-M] < C:\CrimsonRoomSolution.txt > C:\CrimsonRoomReadable.txt neat stuff.

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Layoffs

As a side note, some of the HR people have been displaced from their offices temporarily to allow the other HR people to talk with those getting laid off about severance & all that jazz. So I asked the displaced … Continue reading

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Layoffs and company downsizing

My company, ABS, is owned by another company, FHC. Today, FHC announced they were laying off about 200 people. A lot of them were from the IT department of a sister company, ValueOptions. They’re consolidating the IT department for VO … Continue reading

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can’t we all just get along?

I installed Services for UNIX on my computer at work today. Pretty cool stuff. I was in the command prompt, and I was able to type dir and ls and they both worked just fine. Life is good.

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I’m back!

I installed Deepest Sender here at work. It’s the first LJ client I’ve been able to use from work. I have Win Server 2003 here, and none of them have been compatible. At least, none that I tried a few … Continue reading

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bleah

a co-worker came into my cubicle and said something to the effect of, “I love how you’ve decorated! It’s so… spartan!” She was being sarcastic, and somewhat funny. That’s cool – All I have on the walls are three pieces … Continue reading

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i love my job

Really. I love this job. My boss is great, the work is challenging and fun, my computer rocks, etc. My co-workers are nice, even though they get on my nerves sometimes. I gotta say, though, I discovered a new pet … Continue reading

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