Posts made in August, 2007

Long days

Long days aren’t only in June, sometimes they hit you in August.  The past two days have been long.  I’m reminded of the joke, "I don’t mind going to work, it’s the 8 hour wait to get home that bothers me."  Lately that 8 has turned into a 16. Not that I’m in the office all that time, but we have a project that requires a quick turnaround and...

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Computer Crash… again

Saturday morning my desktop machine was down when I woke up.  I must have hit the button a dozen times in the fleeting hope that it would magically startup again.  This is the same machine that died earlier this year.  I wanted to get started working on it right away, but I had to cut the grass before it got too hot. The day before I heard a pop in the room, but everything...

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Website Consulting

Since moving to North Carolina, I have been extremely busy.  My life has been completely turned upside down.  I had lived in the Hampron Roads area of Virginia since I was 3.  Moving here to to Davie County has been a big change.  The biggest is not nowing anyone. In Virginia I had a consulting business on the side.  Nothing big or fancy, just something to help out some...

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Bandwidth Download Calculator

I had to figure out how long some really huge files would take to downlod for some clients at work. I had seen some bandwidth download calculators and figured there were a lot out there to choose from. My search turned up pretty sparse. On top of that none were written in php. So I hacked one out: <?php // Size is the unitless filesize // Units is k, m, or g ofr kilobytes, megabytes,...

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New blog Software

I haven’t been posting. I can blame my lack of posts on a great many things, but it really comes down to “It wasn’t important enough at the time to post to a blog, especailly one that I doubt anyone will read. So I decided to install a different blog software package and try to start it again. So what’s this blog about? It’s more or less just my daily musings. I...

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