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Dabbling with Creativity

Sunday, April 27th, 2003 | Geek Stuff | 2 Comments

So, in case you haven’t noticed, I think i’ve finally figured out how to futz with styles and templates in MT – and now I’ve run amok… Still trying to come up with something that suits me and seems somewhat classy.. Don’t know if this is it but I figured I’d give it a try and see what y’all think…

Just so you know – I didn’t pick the color scheme entirely… Since my better half does design for a living I figured I’d point him at picking colors and stuff (since he never stops reminding me that I shouldn’t be trusted with such things)… So I told him I wanted to use that stained glass window in our skylight as a theme and he picked colors that fit well with that…

So thats the general idea… I”m not ENTIRELY sold on the colors yet – it seems a little much to me… but its better than what I would have come up with and kevin says its ‘sophisticated’…

So… what y’all think? Be honest… (don’t worry – he doesn’t read this! ;))

CRAZY Productive

Saturday, April 26th, 2003 | Geek Stuff | Comments Off on CRAZY Productive

OK… I know its kinda sad that I was stuck workin today – but like i’ve mentioned before – we’re trying to ship this crazy product. So thats what happens… But MAN… Was actually (aside from a kidna rocky start) a GREAT work day… I got SO MUCH done… feelin kinda proud of myself so I figured I’d brag…

I’m actually in pretty good shape for this product so I’m trying to pitch in where I can… Fixed one bug that no one had found yet (and would only find in some really obscure circumstances in english) and spent the rest of the time working on another bug that wasn’t in anything I knew anything about… but I was trying to help out where I could and it turns out I learned a lot and did a really good job of figuring out out.. it was kinda like an obsession … still haven’t fixed the bug but DAMN… got it down to where I can see exactly whats going on…

ANYWAY… Those of you who write software will know exactly what i’m talking about and have probably been there before… and those of you that don’t are probably sitting there going huh?…. Best comparison I can make is finding the one bulb that is out on a string of christmas lights… HUGE PAIN IN THE ASS until you can figure it out but once you do ya feel so much better..

Geek stuff… I’ll stop now… just happy… (kevin also brought me a beer as I worked which was sweet! :):))

happy saturday

And one more thing

Monday, April 7th, 2003 | Geek Stuff | Comments Off on And one more thing

The piece I worked on… (among others)… Full Unicode Support throughout the User Interface and Text Generators… For the non-geeks in the crowd, this means that you can add text in any language in use today at any point in the application… You can create titles for your video in Arabic.. you can name your clips in hebrew…. you can name your files in korean…. or any other text you can think of…

Airport ROCKS

Friday, March 14th, 2003 | Geek Stuff | Comments Off on Airport ROCKS

Holy CRAP…. My Toyota dealer has an airport connection in their waiting room!!!…

Guess thats what comes from working in silicon valley and going to a big toyota dealer… they have LOTS of people drop off their cars in the morning so there is a huge waiting room with coffee, bagels, and airport! :):)

TOO FUNNY! 🙂