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Archive for November, 2000

One of the highlights of living in Denton, TX comes tonight, when Brave Combo play their annual Christmas concert at the tree lighting down on the town square. If you live anywhere near here, come along.

Thursday, November 30th, 2000. Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »>

Family Matters

My cousin Mark has a website, which mostly highlights he and his wife Billie’s two very cute kids.

Wednesday, November 29th, 2000. Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »>

The Grinch who stole my BFG!

Fraggers beware!

Wednesday, November 29th, 2000. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>

Ah, a real database!

I’m sure all sorts of bad thing could be said about Microsoft’s SQL Server — but at the moment, I’m in love. Why? Because I’ve just spent my morning going between two extremes of the database software spectrum.

“ALT” is in the process of switching to “Axapta”, an ERP solution with a SQL Server backend. [...]

Wednesday, November 29th, 2000. Posted in Dynamics AX | No Comments »>

Macs Galore

If you’re a Mac fan, here’s your chance to get more slow Macs than you know what to do with. We’ve recently switched part of our operations to Windows at “ALT”, and are house cleaning on eBay.

Go bid on our rag-tag collection of leftover Macs.

Wednesday, November 29th, 2000. Posted in Uncategorized | 3 Comments »>

The hard part about vacations.

What’s the best thing about days off: Spending time with my wonderful wife, “Kt”.

What’s the worst thing about days off: Missing her all day when I have to go back to work.

Monday, November 27th, 2000. Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »>

Reading Update

Well, my reading venture is going slow, but steady. I finally finished Lord Foul’s Bane today. I read it when I was in 8th-9th grade and remember enjoying it much more than I did this time around — but it was still a worthwhile read. Donaldson spent too much time in the [...]

Sunday, November 26th, 2000. Posted in Books | 1 Comment »>

Junkyard Wars

I spent the better part of Friday fully engaged with the television, watching the Junkyard Wars marathon on The Learning Channel. My friend “Motorcycle Dave” and I are ready to signup.

This show is brilliant. Anyone who has any tendency toward tinkering will love it…it’s a must watch. Entertaining and educational, and very [...]

Sunday, November 26th, 2000. Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »>

X-mas List

Based on Jim Roepcke’s excellent suggestion…I’ve setup an X-mas list here on my site. Link will remain in navigation bar at left until the holiday.

Friday, November 24th, 2000. Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »>

Thanksgiving

We had a nice Thanksgiving, and hope everyone else did as well. Katie’s folks were nice enough to shift dinner to the lunch hour to accomodate our plans to go to the Cowboys game, food was excellent, as was the company.

The game was fun, too. It rained most of the afternoon, but the [...]

Friday, November 24th, 2000. Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »>

More downtime

More downtime at class. I guess I shouldn’t feel really bad, since the rest of the guys in the class are smart, and we’ve finished the material for a three day class in 2 days, but I still spent a lot time twiddling my thumbs…oh, well…I did learn a bunch of stuff.

And, I got [...]

Tuesday, November 21st, 2000. Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »>

It sucks to be quick.

Usually, being relatively quick on the uptake is a good thing. At the moment, it sucks. I’m sitting in a class on the development tools in “Axapta”, and I’ve been done with the afternoon lesson for 45 minutes, waiting on the rest of the class to catch up…I’m bored. It would be [...]

Monday, November 20th, 2000. Posted in Uncategorized | 5 Comments »>

Bush-Leiberman?

This is an interested wrinkle in the election hubbub. It sounds to me like they are clearly right — whether it’s a good law or not, the argument is valid.

Wednesday, November 15th, 2000. Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »>

Mozilla

Netscape 6 is now “final”. This post is coming from the the final version on Windows, and as I speak, it’s downloading to my PowerBook. I’ve been using it all day, and am going to give it a run as my default browser for awhile and see how I like it. I [...]

Tuesday, November 14th, 2000. Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »>

Get this site via E-mail

“Conversant” has always had an E-mail interface, that operates in complete harmony with the discussion group that this website is based on…but I haven’t made a point of that to date, because it was admittedly a little difficult to get around and understand the preference settings needed to signup to get this site by mail.

Seth [...]

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