Category: Life
It happens, no question about it.
End of an era, onward to a new one
With a bit of sadness, yesterday marked my last day of work at UMBC where I spent the past 3½ years learning lots of new things. It’s where I developed my deep interest in mass storage and furthered my Solaris knowledge even more, where I delved into kernel programming by Read More …
Happy birthday, Mr. Yuck
You’re 35 years old today.
This is nuts
So a few nights ago I tended to my long-ignored resume on monster.com. It has been inactive for at least a year so I updated it with a few things and made it active (searchable by employers) again. Since then, I’ve clocked no fewer than 3 phone calls and/or emails Read More …
Ireland pictures from 1999 trip
As I mentioned in my previous post, I have completed scanning all the negatives I could find from mine and Jacki’s trip to Ireland in August of 1999. I know that I took way more pictures than what I could find negatives for… in fact, the negatives I found convered Read More …
Scanner goodness
I finally went out and bought a flatbed scanner today. The model I got is a Canon LiDE 500F, a fairly recent one which includes a 35mm film scanner and was a pretty decent deal, clocking in at $129 at the local CompUSA. The main impetus behind buying this is Read More …
UPDATED: Places I’ve been.
US States: create your own visited states map Countries: create your own visited countries map
Where Have You Been?
I’ve been to these places: USA Germany (West) Switzerland The Netherlands Lichtenstein Austria Luxembourg Denmark Norway France Ireland create your own visited country map
Jordan’s Steakhouse
This past Friday evening, Sara, her mother Julia, Jason, and I went to Jordan’s Steakhouse at 8085 Main St. in Old Ellicott City. We arrived early in the evening and were greeted by the wonderful staff, including the maitre d’hotel, Dave. After sitting at the wonderful bar for an hour, Read More …
Maryland Sex Offender Registry
While out browsing the web today, I came across the Maryland Sex Offender Registry. A searchable database and downloadable PDF files broken down by ZIP code are available there.
Diebold Election Systems
Try to picture how you spend your time working on your computer. You may keep an address book, update your mutual fund spreadsheets, write a document or two… pretty normal stuff to do with a computer, most would agree. Now, take an operating system very much like one popularly used Read More …