Sunday, July 11, 1999
Actually, I’m writing this ast 12:36 a.m. July 12th. Well, close enough. Insomnia has struck (the entire family, actually — everbody’s up). I finally got my hands on Disney’s The Black Cauldron the other day — the last copy that Costco had. The Black Cauldron is a little-known Disney film that draws from a series of fantasy novels by Lloyd Alexander, and are highly recommended (particularly for the younger lot). […]
Friday, July 9, 1999
Accountability is coming on strong. Basic checking account functionality is there (adding a check, adding a deposit, having the total balance out properly), and before I came in to work this morning I got a window to auto-save its position between opening and closing the window. And you can restore it to defaults simply by deleting the file. I’m very pleased. All that’s left is to display money properly (as it is it just […]
Thursday, July 8, 1999
Boy, I almost typed “1998” in that datestamp above. Frightening. I got some TV in last night, between compilations of Accountability (my BeOS financial app). I finally caught an episode of Crusade, which was basically a below-par episode for an established series, but pretty good for their first season. It definitely has more of a swashbuckling, Star Trek: The Original Series feel than Babylon 5, which is undoubtedly refreshing. Some good […]
Wednesday, July 7, 1999
I’m trying to install Linux at home. Linux users insist that Linux is easy to install. Using fdisk to repartition your hard drive, then rebooting several times with various boot disks, and re-formatting your hard drive, is easy? Arg. Work’s going pretty well. I’m a bit tired of it, though. Not surprising, I suppose — work’s supposed to be, well, work. A friend suggested I stay […]
Tuesday, July 6, 1999
Wow. It is hot out there, no question. The heat index is 115 degrees Farenheit (sp?) today, according to the weather people. Welcome to Arrakis! Well, I spent a total of 8 hours at work over the Independence Day weekend. It looks like I will get comp-time for it, though, so I can take a day off some other time. Maybe in a week or two. The BeOS financial app is pretty […]
Monday, July 5, 1999
Ugh. The main application I’ve been developing isn’t working as expected, so I had to go in to work yesterday, and I’ll have to go in today, too. Work on that BeOS financial app continues. It’s pretty close to working properly; now I just have to make it look right, save all of its data properly, etc. Pretty cool.
Saturday, July 3, 1999
Well, work on my BeOS financial application is continuing apace — I’ve got half of drag-and-drop implemented, and basically all of the main pieces in place. Maybe, in a few days, I’ll be ready to release it. I’m trying to think of a good way to release this application, in terms of making money. I’d love to be able to release it for free, and make money through some other aspect of the program. Pegasus, the e-mail client, […]
Friday, July 2, 1999
Boy, that was exciting — we had the power go out last night, right as Mom was preparing dinner. It stayed off for a couple of hours, too. We went out to Boston Market for dinner, and fortunately the power was back on by the time we returned. I had to make some pretty major changes to one of my programs at work, which meant I stayed a bit late. It also means there’s a potential […]
Thursday, July 1, 1999
American Independence Day is coming up. What are your plans? We’ll be attending a lot of parties (unusual for us), and skipping out on doing fireworks for this year. We won’t be able to follow the advice of The Simpsons’ Abu: “Celebrate the independence of your country by blowing up a small part of it.” The Palm keyboard is very cool, though not hugely convenient. I can see it being perfect for a train […]
Wednesday, June 30, 1999
The crisis at work has passed, pretty much, so I’m back to a normal work schedule. I’m hoping to skip out early today and take care of a certain lost check book. :-/ Ooooh, incidentally, I set up a very cool piece of software called Fictional Daemon that acts as a telnet/FTP server on my home machine. This lets me telnet in to my machine at home and browse the files there. Then I can FTP files […]