Friday, May 11, 2001
Work’s been kinda intense; we have a deadline of 9:00 a.m. on Monday to get a bunch of help files cleaned up. I’ll probably be coming in to work tomorrow. Of course, if I’d simply buckled down and really attacked this work, it’d be done by now. But no, instead I’ve been fiddling with other things, or just plain goofing off at times. So, fine. I have to pay the piper. […]
Thursday, May 10, 2001
OK, lots and lots to talk about. I tried to get AtheOS installed on Lady last night (I really should put up bio pages for each of my computers, so people will know what I mean when I say things like “I brought home Tramp tonight”). That was a trip. First, I kept getting corrupt boot disks, and then the installation would hang partway through (Lady has its hard drive divided […]
Wednesday, May 9, 2001
After arriving home last night, I was completely unproductive. I managed to answer my e-mails and do my devotions, but I neither sketched a sketch nor wrote any writings. I’ve determined to follow my schedule tonight, even though I’ll be getting home late. I will have time. I’ll make time. Went to the hospital at 9:00 this morning for an echocardiogram, which was surprisingly quick and easy. This was not my first echocardiogram; […]
Tuesday, May 8, 2001
Well, Scot Hacker has written an excellent article (since removed) about the current state of the BeOS, and its current situation and future. I can’t disagree with anything he says. Personally, I’ll continue to use BeOS for the foreseeable future. I can’t imagine using Windows regularly at home; BeOS is the best OS out there for my tastes. And no matter how dire the situation, nobody can make mede-install BeOS. It will […]
Monday, May 7, 2001
I spent much of this weekend doing very little of anything productive. This is OK, though, since I had planned to be unproductive. This was a weekend for recharging. I did bake some cookies (Applesauce Oatmeal), had a blast on the last full night of AWANA club, and edited my “Anime Explained” article based on some suggestions from my Mom. More details in my brand-new writing diary, which you should be seeing just […]
Saturday, May 5, 2001
After I (finally) paid off my truck several weeks ago, I received the title in the mail today. I feel so relieved to have it in my possession; I’ve been driving my truck for five years, and I actually own it now. It’s mine. (Well, I don’t really own it, of course. It’s leased from the government. ‘Cause if I stop paying taxes, the government will come and take it away from me. Welcome to the land […]
Friday, May 4, 2001
I think I’ve figured out Keenspace. It’s unbearably slow during the morning hours (Eastern time), but seems OK later on. So, if I simply avoid Keenspace comics until lunchtime, I can cruise my comics with a nice, speedy connection. I couldn’t get online this morning, so I called Frontline when I got in to work. Turns out a server was down, but they’re working on it. Surprisingly, the experience […]
Thursday, May 3, 2001
Well, I mailed a tape of “Deathdance” off to the Otakon 2001 music video contest this morning. This is the first time I’ve submitted one of my anime music videos to any sort of audience, so I’m slightly nervous and more than a little excited. Of course, Otakon also has trouble showing all the videos that are submitted to this contest, so “Deathdance” may not even get shown. But I may […]
Wednesday, May 2, 2001
Just ran across Broken Saints, which is trying to use Flash to make a serious online animated manga type of thing. You get drawn into this odd world of seemingly-random images and storylines. Here’s a beggar on the street, there is a man driving a truck through the desert. What do they have to do with each other? Watch it and find out. I won an eBay auction of a cel of Mitsuki Sanada […]
Tuesday, May 1, 2001
No luck yet on the link verification program. I’m trying to add recursion (so that it will check sub-directories), but that’s proving to be tricky, as Perl doesn’t support recursion properly. Well, there are ways around that. Meanwhile, I’ve been trying to be more productive at work. I realized last night that I really have trouble saying “No” to myself, and as a result I spend a lot of time at work […]