Entries from August 2007

Another Wednesday over beers

Date August 29, 2007

And Hanne’s just sitting here reading while I type.  Students!
One of the things I forgot to mention in my last post is that I managed to ratchet up my Technogeek rating another notch or two by spending money from my first paycheck.  Not only did I pick up a 22″ widescreen LCD, but I replaced [...]

TGIS

Date August 25, 2007

You know how people say the best way to learn a foreign language is total immersion, either in a classroom on in a country that speaks the language?  When it comes to computers, the best way to learn something is to actively support it on a daily basis.  I walked into my new job with [...]

New beginnings

Date August 15, 2007

The first days of a new job are always difficult one way or another, but this is probably the easiest transition I’ve ever made from one job to another.  For one thing, I know my boss well and I know his style of management (at least, in the context that it’s official management now and [...]

Weeks off

Date August 11, 2007

Having a week off from work and a list of things you want to get accomplished typically means that not many things will get done. Well, with me, at least. I find that I have all this time to do whatever, and I end up spending it doing uninteresting things like watching TV [...]

Of beer and final days

Date August 1, 2007

I realize I write about beer a lot, and it’s an odd thing that beer plays such a role in my life, but hey, I like beer.  There’s no other way around it.  Not in the “let’s down a case and get blitzed” way (although that has happened on occasion, blitzed not being the end [...]