Agile Tortoise

Archive for July, 2004

Sean implemented my Last Year at this Time feature at his site. It’s fun! At least for me, it is. Like, right at this moment, I’m laughing to see my Doom III slides to 2004 post from last year — since it’s finally going to ship this week!

Thursday, July 29th, 2004. Posted in Family and Friends, Technology | No Comments »>

Piano arrives

The piano has arrived. It’s knicked up here and there, but in mostly very good condition, and the grain of the quarter sawn oak is stunning. Here’s an closeup of the side, also.

Friday, July 23rd, 2004. Posted in Family and Friends | No Comments »>

This Land

My Dad just pointed me to This Land. Very funny!

Thursday, July 22nd, 2004. Posted in Humor, Politics | No Comments »>

RE: Piano

Made arrangements to have the piano moved tomorrow. Looking forward to having it in the house!

Thursday, July 22nd, 2004. Posted in Family and Friends | No Comments »>

Piano

I bought a piano this morning. We’ve wanted to get one for the new house, and already had a place in mind, so I’ve been watching the classified ads on-and-off for a deal. I think I got a good one. On the plus side, it’s a very attractive antique quarter sawn oak [...]

Wednesday, July 21st, 2004. Posted in Family and Friends | 8 Comments »>

Damn good deals

I just got a call from Dell. Clearly from their “overseas” operation in India. They were trying to sell me peripherals and such to go with the systems I’ve purchased. It was the oddest conversation I’ve had in some time. The guy clearly had a script to work from, but it [...]

Tuesday, July 20th, 2004. Posted in Humor, Technology | No Comments »>

Tuition costs

And you wonder why tuition costs are going up? Geez, you can’t pay college basketball players, but you can bribe qualified applicants by giving away iPods?

Monday, July 19th, 2004. Posted in Technology | 4 Comments »>

Sponsor Seth in the PMC

Seth is riding the Pan-Mass Challenge again this year, and is in need of sponsorship. This event raises millions annually for cancer research, and brings a lot of attention to the cause. Help out if you can!

Monday, July 19th, 2004. Posted in Family and Friends | No Comments »>

Digging through the pile

Well, I’m getting caught up at work. I think the vast majority of the staff was eagerly awaiting my return for one reason or another. Can I leave for another week’s vacation now?

Thursday, July 15th, 2004. Posted in Work | No Comments »>

Steve Ivy

He’s so vain, he probably thinks this post is about him.

Thursday, July 15th, 2004. Posted in Family and Friends | No Comments »>

Back from vacation

I’m back from a great week of vacation in Washington state. My sister and her partner rented a whole resort worth of beach-side cabins near Port Townsend for their 10th anniversary together, and there was a great assortment of family and friends there to celebrate. The boys did great on the airplane, and [...]

Wednesday, July 14th, 2004. Posted in Family and Friends | No Comments »>

Laura Pierce Consulting

Check out my sisters new business website. (That means you, Google)

Wednesday, July 7th, 2004. Posted in Family and Friends | No Comments »>

RE: XServe

The Xserve I ordered in February arrived. Finally. Scanning some of the docs, now…I like that the Mac OS X Server guide has instructions for propagating server settings between multiple servers using your iPod.

Tuesday, July 6th, 2004. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>

Mono 1.0

Mono has gone 1.0. Looking forward to trying it out. I do a lot of .NET work, and like the APIs and C# — just not too fond of the lock-in.
I’ve been watching Mono, but haven’t had time to dig into prerelease versions. Now that it’s final, I’m more interested.

Friday, July 2nd, 2004. Posted in .NET | 1 Comment »>