Wednesday, June 20, 2001
You know those days when you get home, you sit down in your chair, you check your e-mail, you close your e-mail program, and then you stare at the screen and you just try to imagine doing something productive, and you can’t even imagine doing anything? Where your brain refuses to acknowledge that it knows how to read a book, or write a paper, or do any of those […]
Tuesday, June 19, 2001
It’s almost midnight, and I worked a twelve hour day today. I don’t have the energy for a full diary update, but I wanted to get in something brief at least. Work’s going well, now that I’ve been given some more responsibility. And in spite of my former boss basically flaming the documentation team. I’ve been drawing a few anime faces lately; will have to upload the results. They look pretty good. I’m experimenting […]
Sunday, June 17, 2001
Forgive the bland taste of this entry; I went to sleep at 3:00 a.m. last night, and my writing skills are suffering. After our late night at the party last night, we elected to stay home from church today. I did my devotions insted, which was a poor substitute. It was unquestionably worthwhile, though. Saalon called, and we had a long conversation about all sorts of things. Then, as I did my chores, I worked […]
Saturday, June 16, 2001
What an interesting day. Now that I’ve taken over the build of the online help system at work, I’ve been looking at ways to automate the build process. Over the course of the week, I’ve been designing a program that would do just that, but haven’t had the opportunity to write it. Since my boss wanted a daily build done by Monday morning, I decided to go to work this morning and write the build program, then […]
Thursday, June 14, 2001
Ugh. I didn’t get to bed until 3:30 a.m. last night, so I was barely able to drag myself in to work this morning. I did come up with some clarifying ideas for Wine, though, which is nice. We’ve been talking a lot lately about our stock options at work. I’ve decided that the best option for me is simply to buy them all now, as soon as possible. Unfortunately, […]
Wednesday, June 13, 2001
It’s funny…Exploitation Now! started as an aggressively bawdy online comic, with rampant nudity and sexual content. Now it’s telling one of the most dramatic, powerful stories I’ve ever seen in an online comic. I also find it interesting that the powerful drama doesn’t come from the nudity or sex. It’s sad to see that neobaka is shutting down. It was a good strip, with a whole lot of potential. I’ll […]
Tuesday, June 12, 2001
Yahoo! has a site called Yahoo! Experts, where people can ask questions, and get answers from Yahoo! users who have expertise in a particular area. I like to answer writing questions on the “Books & Writing” forum. Most of them are either requests that we do somebody’s homework (“Name the creator of the literary genre known as the realistic animal story”) or clueless questions from beginning writers (“I have always dreamed […]
Monday, June 11, 2001
Back at work today. A mass e-mail was sent to the entire office, notifying us that a new firewall system is in place, which gives the IT group detailed logs on web usage, and reminding us that the web should be used primarily for work-related needs. Ahem. I’m suddenly glad that I’ve decided to work more diligently here at Intersect. :-) I can still update this diary (since I use […]
Sunday, June 10, 2001
Some people are real idiots. Pardon me if I vent for a moment. I’m subscribed to an anime music video mailing list. Someone posted a long complaint about the fact that a lot of the videos available are posted incorrectly, or marked incorrectly. The problem with this post wasn’t the facts — they were accurate — it was the attitude of the poster. Like he deserved to get angry because people aren’t […]
Saturday, June 9, 2001
Well, I wasn’t quite as productive as I’d hoped I’d be today, but I did get some stuff accomplished. Having a list to refer to was unquestionably helpful in getting me to do stuff. After checking through all of my e-mail in the morning, I tried to back up my websites and stories-in-progress onto tape, so I could take a tape to my safe deposit box. After asking to to record my files to tape, Colorado Backup shrieked: “Firmware sequencing […]