Nov

27

Website Outage

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Someone DOS’d the server hosting my website both yesterday and the night before so there have been times of outage.  Site5’s people have been working to get it under control and apparently they’re doing a good job.

Nov

22

First Thanksgiving and Graduation Dinner

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This is Heather and my first thanksgiving away from home.  It’ll be a little sad not to be with my entire family for thanksgiving, but exciting at the same time since Heather and I will get to start our own traditions.

We have also made reservations at Fogo de Chao for my graduation dinner.  It’ll be awesome as I’ve never been to a Brazilian style restaurant.  Good stuff.  I think my dad and dad in law are also very excited about it.

Nov

17

Happily Employed

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Well, I accepted an offer with AppForge today.  I’m pretty darned happy even though I can’t work for all of the companies at once. :D

Nov

16

Stress sucks

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So I got absolutely no sleep last night because of an email from a perspective employer.  I’m really frustrated and stressed by the job search because I tried to plan things so I could lay out all of the cards and compare everything; I wanted to choose the best position for both Heather and my future, looking at the environment, salary…everything.  I don’t know if that’s asking too much, but I suppose I’ll find out in time.

I needed the sleep [I didn't get] last night as I had a quiz this morning in my Animation course.  Thankfully, I woke up in time and had spent plenty of time studying for it (we did not have to derive the Lagrangian equation for a physical scenario, as I thought we would — this made the exam about half as difficult) and things worked out.  I feel like utter hell physically, but I’m not mentally fatigued as I have a lot of opportunities ahead of me and things are going well over all.  I just need to get through one last group meeting today and I’ll be free to sleep or at least lay down.

I’m hoping that at every company I’m not able to work for, I have made friends and contacts who I could speak to in the future as I think that networking is part of the beauty of the search for the elusive career-starting position.  I’d love to work for all of them, really, but that isn’t possible and in the end I have to look at what’s best for my family.

Nov

13

AMBackup Changes Coming

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Sometime in the next 2 months, I’ll be breaking AMBackup into components (under the hood) to better facilitate the implementation of the scheduling functionality.  First, I’ll make it so you can save the current program settings as a “task” file.  Once this is finished, you’ll be able to load this into AMBackup from the command line so you can use the Windows task scheduler (temporarily), until I have time to write my own.  I have about a month left in school and things are going well.  I’m getting a lot of post interview call backs from companies, which is promising.

I’ve already fixed a silly issue on non-US versions of Windows that caused an error when attempting to back up the My Documents or Favorites folders.  This will be available in the next release.

Nov

2

MIT Whiteboard = Win

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Clikey (easier than turning off the WP rich editor  or installing a plugin)