Archive for July, 2005

Waltercon Here I come!

Tuesday, July 19th, 2005

WHOOOO! Got my plane tickets (from Southwest) changed to Indianapolis -> Las Vegas (non-stop!) and have a few hundred bucks of fares to spend on another trip with Southwest some other time. I figure I’ll use it to visit my brother or something — since it’s like a 20 minute trip from Indianapolis to Midway [...]

My life is crazy!

Monday, July 18th, 2005

Crazy, but in a really really good way. I’ve had a hard time not writing about this, but it could have been detrimental. I turned in my resignation this morning to my current employer, UMC. I’ve been here on location for two and a half years now, counting both full-time employment and consulting. For the [...]

It is as I expected.

Friday, July 8th, 2005

The focus subsystem is to blame. This can (and certainly will) be fixed… I’m on it now. Apparently, we’re missing a good deal of focus-related events being fired. The creation and display of a Frame should result in 5 events being fired. Our BeOS implementation only has 2 right now whoops! More to come… I’m [...]

Totally distracted

Thursday, July 7th, 2005

Ever try to do something and find yourself helplessly distracted from the task at hand? That’s about how I’ve felt since quitting caffeine. I’m perhaps the biggest opponent of medicating people to help them concentrate. I’m convinced that “medicine” has invented “disorders” like ADD. Here’s a hint people, the body does things for a reason, [...]