Brendan's Blatherings

Technology is cool

Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:20:47 GMT

From slashdot:

http://haltadefinizione.deagostini.it/

Wish they had done this for the mosaics in Ravenna, hmm Cait? :)

On the road again...

Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:36:14 GMT

I'm in California, San Jose to be exact, at a geek conference (PHP for those that really want to know). LONG crappy flight with a WAY too tired J not getting much sleep.

So I get to bed around 3am after finishing packing when I got home from the wedding (yeah, dumb, but there ya go) then got up at 6:00am to get ready in the morning. That became 7:05am departure from the house with my plane leaving at 8:15am. Uh, this is going to be fun... and then I realized I had forgotten to roll my clock back. The rest of the morning was MUCH more relaxing :)

Boring flight to Las Vegas. Delayed in LV so I played $10 worth of slots and won $6.25. ;)

Flight to SJ was just over an hour and not a big deal but apparently a bunch of America West passengers missed flights the night before and were up since midnight waiting. AW didn't give them hotel rooms, even the single woman with the 1yr old infant; she stayed up all night afraid to sleep with her crawly baby with her an no one else to watch. People were a little irked with America West :)

Got in to the hotel with no surpises, then found my room was the furthest from the elevators it was possible to be. Arg! Called and they swapped me to the room closest to them :)

Now, I'm in the first session of the conference. I should be paying more attention to the speaker so I'm outta here. Ciao!

See, you can teach me things!

Tue, 29 Aug 2006 20:37:15 GMT

Look, a better style! I think. I might still tweak colors at least, but this looks better and is a little more snarky. That's a good thing.

Done!

Thu, 10 Aug 2006 06:05:52 GMT

Kinda.

Packed, 'cept for early morning necessities, car ready (mostly), site not touched (see, kinda).

I'll try and work on it some tomorrow (eek! TODAY!) from work but I'm afraid it's waiting till Sat evening or when I get back. *sigh*

Now for my far-too-usual 4-5 hours sleep. With "Boobies and Beer" tomorrow night I'll need to be well rested. :)

Summer Fridays

Fri, 28 Jul 2006 14:54:47 GMT

While wilfulcait hates it, I must say I love my offices' Summer Hours policy. 8.5 hours Mon - Thu and 3.5 on Fridays. I'm outta here for da weekend in a little over an hour :) Woo Hoo!

Not that my weekend will be my desired quiet period to code like a madman, but I'll probably work on the site more today/tomorrow morning, go to my boss' summer party Saturday afternoon for awhile, then I've go the "Ron Katona Memorial Autocross" on Sunday. I'm still not sure what/if I'm driving, but since it's for the foundation I'm a director for I'll be there regardless. (For those not aware, Ron was my best friend and autocross buddy and he passed away in 2004 after battling lung cancer - and he wasn't a smoker)

If I have time I'll also be trying to get down to make_your_move's place to teach her daughter the power and magic of driving a stick. But I won't teach her everything I do when I drive, don't worry :) No downshifts and rev-matches around corners, etc. Not at first. hehe

Mon, 24 Jul 2006 19:18:22 GMT

Home sick today *ugh*.

I blame it on people leaving too early this weekend. :)

Like I need another time sink...

Mon, 24 Jul 2006 06:28:06 GMT

I'm in, I'm in. Don't expect much from me; I'm nowhere near as prolific as R and I hate online forum style things. I much prefer email that I can thread and manage on my own time in my own manner, but I recognize the need to at least have the ability to check in on folks/news/etc here. *sigh*

Missing everyone that was here this w/end and even more those that couldn't make it.