I haven’t been following the riots in France with any particular interest, but a blog post by a journalist in France caught my attention. A little snippet, if I may: The rebellion is spreading spontaneously — driven especially by racist...
I hate to just link to pages, but there’s a lot of stuff to catch up on today, so allow me to indulge myself by placing a little reminder here 😉 Dino Esposito has a nice little write-up on authoring...
Just to wrap up my Austin trip, here’s a few random, slightly organized thoughts on the city of Austin and my trip: There’s lots of good, cheap Tex-Mex food in Austin (but I guess that this is true for most...
Well, as it turns out, the client here in Austin wasn’t really that interested in software related professional services at the moment. I’ve spent the last two days working with two awesome consultants, Hillary and Bob, from EMC. All I can...
I originally wrote this post as I was sitting in the back of a 737 to Austin. In the software industry, there is an interesting Catch-22 situation that many young developers will find themselves in: you generally aren’t afforded the...
RTM versions were downloaded over the weekend and I’m setting them up now. Weird error encountered with SQL Server 2005 setup; On a WinXP SP2, I’m getting the following message: “SQL Server Setup failed to modify security permissions on WMI...
Heh, this is a Friday shout out to my project group for CS476–Ed (Myung) Kim, Roger Chang, and Craig Lichtenstein. These guys were a great group to work with as everyone really took responsibility for their parts of the project...
After reading the recent articles regarding the leaked Walmart memo regarding the hiring of “unhealthy” persons, I couldn’t help but be repulsed by Walmart. Another retailer, CostCo, which battles Walmart’s Sam’s Club, is almost the complete opposite of the Walmart...
A little doodle I did in Acrylic. I’m really digging the vector brushes; they’re great for doing lineart like this (looks even better in higher resolution). There are some quirks when working with bitmap and vector layers involving an opaque...
It’s a wonder why you and I are still viewing movies via physical mediums like DVDs. To be honest, I’m really not sure why there’s even such a huge fuss over BluRay vs. HDDVD. About three or four years ago,...