Monthly Archives: September 2004

MNSi

I just got a phone call from Steve at MNSi, regarding my desire to work for his illustrious company.
It seems that the reason he had not called me back prior was a combination of elements, none of which were him not wanting to hire me.

Steve has been away from his phone alot, so has spent [...]

Happy Birthdays

Today is the birthdate of one Shannon Patterson. May your days be filled with blessings beyond your expectations.

Saipan

Matt’s leaving tomorrow morning for the island of Saipan. He’ll be there until midway through December, doing missionary work with a radio brodcasting group on the island, beaming the name of Jesus Christ to hundreds of thousands of people in China. His job is to keep the radio tower working through typhoon season.
There’s still some [...]

Fall2004 Books

SSC405 FamilyDynamic 0176034994 $35.95
MIT600 Project Management 0619159847 $80.28
MIT542 NetworkDesign 1586761218 $39.17
MIT617 NetworkSecure 0619212942 $89.50

Accepting Forgiveness

If you ask for forgiveness for some wrong, and are told that you are indeed forgiven, but you continue to feel dragged down by it, then most likely the problem is you are not accepting forgiveness, possibly for not feeling worthy of it.

International Bidirectional Extradition

“New Zealand software pirates risk extradition to the United States following a ground-breaking ruling against an Australian man accused of pirating software, games and music worth up to US$50 million.”
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Short summary: An Australian citizen, who has never been to the US, who was in Australia, is being extradited to the United States of America [...]

Ying Xiong (Hero)

Shannon and I went to the cinema to watch Ying xiong this evening.

IV Frosh Week BBQ

This morning the IVCF Frosh Week BBQ took place on the University of Windsor campus. It was a beautiful day, not a cloud in the sky, despite (because of?) weather reports of severe thunderstorms. Despite a little hecticness with power sourcing (and an extreemly obvious solution), the event went off without a hitch.
We planned to [...]

Metadata

I was talking with J tonight, in particular regarding data storage schemas. In particular freeform writing and its associated metadata.
If everything were mostly-freeform attribute text, it would be a search-friendly index-hating chaotic mess.
On the simple, gentle end of things, attribute values with spelling errors are a problem. One that can be easily mitigated with on-the-fly [...]

Fumes

Smelled lots of fumes today. Head is light.
Work tomorrow, 5 hours worth. Hopefully I’ll actually get paid soon.