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August 30th, 2008 by joby
Emma’s favorite thing is to crawl on me and then snuggle in — some drooling may be involved too:
Chloe prefers to sleep on her head:
Archive for August, 2008
Blue Prius Denied
August 28th, 2008 by joby
I was walking down 45th when this blue Prius stopped parallel with me (due to traffic) so I quickly got out my phone and prepared to take a picture of the rear plate as it would pass me:
MotherF####r!
Work Update
August 27th, 2008 by joby
Some updates on C&C UW Technology & Me:
Office: The official word has comedown today and I won’t be banished to the Tower to work in a cubefarm. I will be bounced to the 4th floor of 4545 to work in a cubicle (sigh….) for 4 months or so and then be returned to basement (though in a less desirable location). Of course with more and more people jumping ship, there may be even more space opening up at the tower — and plans (even officially announced ones) can always change.
Exchange: So the doom known as Exchange will be a part of my reality now. UW Technology Services (Scott’s Domain) will be rush migrated to Exchange before we have to renew the Oracle Calendar licenses on 10/1. They were originally planning to migrate us in mid September, but Nebula Support is currently overwhelmed dealing with the Coreflood trojan/worm. Since we are under huge financial pressure (66% budget shortfall), you would think that saving money would be a top priority, which is one reason why I find this decision so perplexing. Exchange is going to cost far more than Oracle Calendar + Deskmail — all so that we can have our calendar and email in the same program! WTF? Who thought this would be beneficial for our productivity?
Coreflood: This trojan/worm has brutalized Windows Desktops across campus — and Nebula was no exception. Nebula is currently rebuilding over a thousand workstations that were infected — and that doesn’t include the non-nebula Windows workstations that were infected. My confidence in the Windows security infrastructure has dropped to a new low — which makes Exchange even less attractive…
Mulciber Progress
August 20th, 2008 by joby
I’ve made some good progress with the little time I’ve been able to devote to the project:
1) Powers are largely done. All elements of a power can be entered via a generated UI and an XML document is generated that can easily be retrieved. I have two examples: Lance of Faith and Fey Step. From these documents, I will be able to generate either power cards or a reference sheet — but that is a much later step.
2) Feat entry is primarily done (there may be some improvements later), and the generation of the XML document for Feats is about 1/2 done. I do have a very simple example: Durable.
3) The schema and skeleton generated UIs for entering classes, class features, and racial traits are in place. They’ll need some improvement and model adjustments before they are functional, but that isn’t too much work — it is mostly a variation of the work I figured out for powers.
4) All major elements can be easily referenced by a GUID.
I will be continuing to work on producing generated XML for the remaining items: classes, features, traits, races.
Blue Prius (VIII)
August 20th, 2008 by joby
Number eight was found at the University Bookstore parking lot:
Cop Fail
August 18th, 2008 by joby
Failblog has a story from Dearborn, Michigan that made it to our local Fox Affiliate. Not only is the story hilarious but it is always amusing to watch NEWS anchors when they have to pause to recover their composure.