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10:06 am: Facebook & Blogging
Facebook is the first social network that I have been using day-in, day-out.  Knowing that people read your junk does give an insentive to post in even more of it :)  One issue with Facebook, though, is its lack of good blogging support.  Yes, there is that Notes thing, but it feels awkward.  Plus, not everyone I know is on Facebook and sometimes I want to write something especially stupid to share with outside folks.  Fear no more.  Here's my experimental fix.  This blog entry is made from my the Live Journal account which I've linked to Facebook.  Let's see how well this works.

09:29 am: Rug Cutter's Swing

11:10 am: I've decided to develop using Eclipse. Seems a lot of companies are looking for people with Eclipse knowledge. I think this requirement is braindead, but who am I to argue with the guy who has the power not to hire me?

So yesterday I got Eclipse set up and configured for the project. After spending a few hours trying to get the code to compile and run and writing up steps for setting up DLE in Eclipse, I found a copy of a set up instructions in Perforce.

I don't like Eclipse. I try not to judge it based on my unfamiliarity with its features. The program just doesn't have the same complete feel as IntelliJ IDEA.

Today I installed Maven 2 and JDepend (+Eclipse plugin). Over the following several weeks I'll try to rewrite the build process for DLE using Maven. This won't be trivial, as their project structure is very different from what Maven recommends. After running the project files through JDepend, it appears that there are quite a few cyclic dependencies. I need to figure out what they are and see if they can be resolved.

Need to find and install a MSSQL client. Can't figure out how to do certain things using DLE's UI.

Got to learn how to use Perforce.

Tags: jobjournal

02:19 pm: Started my new job today. Seems ok and it's got nice perks like a Dell laptop for personal. Anyway, I going to try to keep a job journal. All job related entries will be tagged "jobjournal"

10:45 pm: I have a pretty good memory for faces. I can also remember names (when I care to). What sucks, though, is that I can never remember what face goes with what name.

I also have a kinda location specific memory for people. So if I see someone in place A, I will recognize them again in place A, but not in place B. Weird, huh?.. So the other week, I was in the Living Room and there was this girl sitting across the room from me. She looked familiar, but vaguely enough that I thought I was making it up. An hour later I went to the Firehouse for some lindy hopping and their she was again. Only this time I immediately knew her name and that we'd taken like a bunch of classes and danced together a bunch of times. At least she was a good sport and didn't take my ignoring her personally.

So, if you kinda know me and happen to bump into me, but I barely acknowledged you existed, that cuz I didn't recognize you out of the environment I'm used to seeing you. So, the next time just come over, yell at me and hit me over the head. You have my permission... but only if you know me... you MAY NOT hit me if you are a total stranger... but then, i guess you wouldn't know who I am anyway.

08:32 am: What has my world come to. Yesterday I found myself writing this horrid sentance in an email: *** has asked me to find out whether the IAP table reflects a recent change in the assessment percentage for non-represented employees. Oh, the HORROR, the HORROR!!! I have no recourse left, I may as well join in singing

People,
We didn't choose to be bureaucrats
No that's what our mighty Ja made us
We treat people like swine and make them stand in line
Even if nobody paid us


...slowly walking away, my head hanging in shame...

12:49 pm: I can't believe it's already the end of January!!! The immediate suckiness of this is that I still haven't gone snowboarding this season. With the weather being so damn warm, I dont' feel like hitting the slopes. The new gear is rusting on the balcony. What a waste of money that was. On a brighter side, I'm going to Tahoe for the President's day. For 5 days. Hopefully I'll get snowboarding out of my system then. I'm also thinking of flying to London to see Mark and to join him and his friends on a skiing trip to Germany. That would be supper cool and it gives me something to look forward to. Otherwise my life currently is...

... this brings me to the next point about this already being January. More precisely, January 2006. I cannot believe it's been three years since I started my job here at the school of medicine. I cannot belive it's been a year and a half since my trip to Portugal. I cannot belive it's been a year since I got my condo. I cannot believe I haven't gone rockclimbing in a year. I cannot belive it's being 6 months since R and I broke up (and I'm still not completely over it). I cannot believe it's been three months since Halloween...

I was about 13 or 15 when I first read The Time Machine. I don't remember much about the book (I haven't seen any of the movies). But I vividly remember the last time travel into the future, towards the end of time. Sun rising and setting, tide coming in and out and empty, destitute space illumed by red flicker of the dying Sun. ...Sunrise, sunset, sunrise, sunset, sunrise, sunset murky, dark, dead... that's my life now.

...time to start pushing the damn pendulum the other way...

10:22 am: Top 10 why geeks make good dads.
Finally, some recognition :)

http://spaces.msn.com/members/imhelendt/Blog/cns!1pLLf-75vbkScDmJSvitLgBA!490.entry

09:44 am: I think I've just come up with a forumula for determinig when we have succeeded in Iraq. We will know that Iraq has become a stable and democratic society when they start producing and exporting to the world videos like this one: http://jwz.livejournal.com/590382.html

03:58 pm: gotta luv flickr
I think I have a new favorite photo :)

07:42 pm: Good, help me
I'm sitting in Cafe Roma desperately trying to concentrate on getting reading for the Wednesday night lecture. Right next to me sorority girls are conducting post rush interviews.... goooood heeelp meee!!!! throw me a gun or a piece of rope. PLEEEEASE

10:49 am: online dating sites
I do realize that online dating sites are useless... at least to me... or to any person with less than average looks, but I like trying them anyone. It's kinda fun. A perverse type of fun, but fun nonetheless. On some level going to these sites might be giving me a false glimmer of hope or lulling me into thinking that I am after all haven't given up finding a normal woman and am still looking. Anyway, a few days ago I signed up for this new site called True.com. Well, that was a complete dud. The site barely has a thousand members and even of those many are fake. Yesterday, I got about 6 "wink" emails from the "members", all 6 of these came into my mailbox at the same. Wow, what a coincidink. The funniest part happened this morning. Once again, I got a mail from the service and here's what it said:

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Hey xxxx,

Be the first to email inlineskategrl, She's new to TRUE, and might be looking for a man just like you!
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Uhm... I think their system got somethig wrong. I'm not looking for a MAN :)))))

Sheesh, and they expect people to pay for this??? I can't believe some fools do.

08:46 am: Pendulum

"You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world propertly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day."

Do I think I was born under the wrong sign? I'll have to revisit this later...

"I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers tech us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us".

After reading this, I had a flash back to my favourite quote from "Almost Famous" -- "The only true currency in this bankrupt world... is what you share with someone else when you're uncool"

What others call profundity is only a tesseract, a four-dementional cube. You walk in one side and come out another, and you're in their universe which can't coexist with yours"

WTF?..

12:19 pm: 20050920_SanDiego_Lightning03
Here's a picture of a lightning storm I mentioned in my last entry.

12:36 am: i'm playing with my new ibook tonight. It's so neat! I fill like I've betrayed my old powerbook which has served me for 5 years. ...5 years... I was so proud when I bought it. I wanted to do a lot of video editing back then. Never happened... No, not really true. I had made a few movies with it before it's firewire port went dead. A few days ago the entire computer finally died, just went blank, puff... like that. The timing really sucked, though, as I need to pay back Mark in a month and I'm still over a grand short. Exactly the amount I spend on the new iBook. But i need a loptop for a class i'm starting to teach in a few weeks. Anyway, so tonight was a night of playing with my new cool, shiny computer. It's so much more powerful then the old one. I finally got space to dump my ipod files (wow, the thunderstorm's really kicking outside). Oh, yeah, i got a free ipod mini as part of the ibook deal. Got ot figure out what to do with it. My sis doesn't want it, she wants a big ipod for her birthday. I guess I'll just sell it and use the money to buy a new cell phone. Yeh, everything is breaking down on me: my laptop, my camera, my cellphone, my car... everything is getting old and crying to be replaced.

someone left me an IM on ichat while a dozed off an hour ago. just said "hi" and signed off (shit, i believe it's hailing outside) i don't recognize the screen name. dammit, i want to know who that was. I don't know that many people online.

got to email Melanie. her coming over is the only bright thought I have to look forward to in a near future... everything else is so... sigh... routine...

... didn't make much progress on the Pendulum...