Archive for the ‘Personal Updates’ Category

Integrate

Recently I started to resurrect some old code that’s been laying around, begging for a project to be a part of forever. Basically, the client code that’s part of the HL7 Comm application has always been designed to be part of something larger. That something larger is the Integrate engine. Basically, I’ve isolated the core […]

Tale of Two Kitties

A few weeks ago we were taking our oldest cat Nomad into the vet for a routine checkup but when we arrived he wasn’t acting his normal self. He had started to hyperventilate, his gums were pale and his pupils dilated. He gets stressed out going to the vets but this was abnormal even for […]

New machines

Sounds like our new machines will be rolled out in March or April at work. I guess they use some sort of virtualization software so that you can’t actually do anything you’re not allowed to do in windows. Anything. Want to install firefox? Too bad. Upgrade to the latest NetBeans? Too bad. Want to do […]

Safe to come out?

Things have calmed down considerably at work. The “troublemakers” were moved to their own room, which suits them as much as it suits me, I imagine. I finally got a phone (after 6 weeks). So now I’m just waiting on two things. First is a real desk or cube somewhere. Second is to get the […]