09/17/2001 01:05:00 AM -
Not much to say lately...
Tuesday, September 11, 2001
09/11/2001 12:05:01 AM -
I re-added the search feature. I used htdig recently on a project I was working on, and I have become quite smitten with it, so I decided to try it out here.
09/11/2001 12:07:52 AM -
It would seem that
someone, I'm not going to name names,
has been tampering with our latest
survey results. Your only cheatin' yourself, and everybody else.
I'll tell you one thing, I'm not gonna let this put a damper on my techies.com spirit. Burning through gagillions of dollars like fire through a paper warehouse has taught us dot com people how to stand up against adversity, how to rise up and say, "where sick and tired, can we please have some more funding?"
09/11/2001 02:36:36 PM -
Monday, September 10, 2001
09/10/2001 02:43:32 PM -
Here at techies.com we hold weekly all hands meetings to update employees of current company business and engage in sharing and/or caring. The Engineering department, filled to the brim with techies spirit, has erected a techies.com flag that we plan to unfurl and fly proudly at the next all hands meeting.
We have one small problem. Who deserves the privilege of flying our techies.com colors at the next all hands. Who has the skill, intellegence and moxie to proudly unfurl our techies.com spirit to the entire company, and someday maybe the world.
This is where we turn to you humble reader. Please use the survey below to steer the fate of the techies.com colors, and maybe even the destiny of the fledgling dot com itself.
The spirit of techies.com lives in all of us employees, and we'll take the time to express it at any given opportunity.
Sunday, September 9, 2001
09/09/2001 03:55:26 PM -
After a few days of hack ass coding, I have got a preliminary log admin interface up and going. This is really a test bed, a prototype of sorts, for a grander web log admin tool that Scott, Ben, Brent and I are planning on building. This interim tool, mainly for me to post stuff remotely, is a test implementing a very cool persistence framework that Scott built. I added a simple object caching piece, but the cool stuff lies in the main persistence code. So, now the pill is updated using a new front end and Scott's cool new persistence framework.
Here is a peek at the admin interface on my dev box if you are interested:
Note: these logs are cached in memory, so to see updates you either have to wait about 60 seconds for the cache to update itself, or just select the reload blog cache link.
Thursday, September 6, 2001
9/06/2001 11:20:00 PM -
A couple of friends have been asking some simple unix/linux questions lately as they are admining there own web servers/dns servers/what-have-yous. I don't mind helping them out, and it gives me a little boost being able to help them work out the kinks. I had started to get a big head, and I was thinking I was quite the smart little computer scientist. Of course, today I bring down the list serve on my machine for the day because of a stupid permissions change I made that the people I have been "helping" wouldn't be stupid enough to make. It would seem the computer master is really a bumbling idiot. Whenever I start to get a big head there's always something right there around the corner with a huge humility mallet. WACK, take that smart guy! Not too hard to hit my over inflated head anyway.
9/06/2001 11:27:00 PM -
I just inadvertently discovered my own personal emoticon:
. )
Tuesday, September 4, 2001
9/04/2001 11:31:00 PM -
Tam picked up the tickets for New Zealand today. I am so excited I can hardly stand it.
Sunday, September 2, 2001
9/02/2001 1:40:00 PM -
A palm version for Steve. He was complaining how the new design wasn't displaying well on his palm V. Now he can go back to reading "The Pill" on the can.
It fills me with a small sense of pride knowing that my sensless and endless blatherings lie comfortably beside the stack of Hustlers on Steve's bathroom floor...I guess everything has its place.
