Agile Tortoise

Work

After taking sporadic vacation days for the holiday, I’m not back at the daily grind, trying to figure out how to get year-end inventory numbers to pan out in a tax-friendly way. Joy. The holiday was great. The boys got lots of good toys. I got a few good ones as well. [...]

Wednesday, December 28th, 2005. Posted in Family and Friends, Work | No Comments »>

Eddie quoted on Yahoo!

My co-worker and friend Eddie Schoenthal got a quote in Yahoo News article about lightning protection. It even linked back to our company website, that was nice of them.

Wednesday, October 26th, 2005. Posted in Work | No Comments »>

Back from San Antonio

I just did a whirlwind couple of days in San Antonio helping the company’s warehouse there get moved into their new building. Had a bit of trouble with the T1 installation not being complete, and the “help” Qwest contracted to send out for me not really being helpful — bu t I ended up [...]

Thursday, October 6th, 2005. Posted in Work | No Comments »>

The big catalog project

Though the vast majority of the technical work has been done for some time, I’m finally wrapping up all the organizational and editorial stages of the new catalog for work and getting it off to the printer. Here’s the PDF version (Warning, 10 meg file).
The whole “guts” of the catalog, including table of contents, [...]

Wednesday, July 27th, 2005. Posted in Work, XML, XSL:FO | No Comments »>

Lightning news

I started a corporate blog tracking interesting news related to lightning protection. I don’t expect it will be all that active, unless I’m successful at getting some others around the office to post. It should get us some more flow at the website, however.

Tuesday, June 21st, 2005. Posted in Work | No Comments »>

RE: Impacted

Oy, it’s promise keepers for MBAs. It’s intermission and I’m playing with the Treo. I narrowly avoided falling asleep for awhile after lunch.

Friday, April 29th, 2005. Posted in Work | No Comments »>

Impacted

The office is sending all of us “managers” to a pep rally on Friday. I don’t want to be a nay-sayer, but I fear boredom. I think a good dose of inspirational speaking is ok now and again, but I’m not sure how I’ll tolerate a full day of it! I’ll try [...]

Monday, April 25th, 2005. Posted in Work | 2 Comments »>

Downtime

Around lunchtime today, both the T1 lines at work went down. Voice and Data. Way down. Not even any warning lights on the termination cards. That usually means a physical connection problem. I was joking with the Qwest rep when I called and said, “Guess someone got a little overzealous [...]

Monday, April 4th, 2005. Posted in Technology, Work | No Comments »>

RE: Lame software

Joy, I’ve stricken myself with more lame software. This time it’s Quickbooks, which — according to the Intuit line, requires you to have at least “Power User” rights on a client machine to run the software. Luckily, this can be worked around, but still, it’s pretty lame. Especially for something selling itself [...]

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2005. Posted in Technology, Work | No Comments »>

Hardware

I’ve had a lot of hardware problems to deal with at work this week. Dead drive one day. Dead NIC today, etc. Basically, any day I have to get inside the case of a computer, I consider a bad day. I’d really rather I didn’t ever have to open up a computer.

Thursday, March 10th, 2005. Posted in Technology, Work | No Comments »>

Plasma cutting table

The manufacturing shop at work just had a 200 amp High Definition Plasma Cutting Table installed (Not this one, but similar ). I was just out there watching it work, and it’s something else. It will cut up to an 8′ x 20′ sheet of steel in any thickness and cut it up [...]

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2005. Posted in Work | No Comments »>

Flying solo

I lost my help at work today. He got a better offer, and I wish him well…but now I’m the only computer guy again. Oh well. Been there before.

Tuesday, February 8th, 2005. Posted in Work | No Comments »>

Lame software

As an administrator of a corporate network, I would like to state that I’m really tired of lame software particularly when it’s provided by large organizations that should know better.

To clarify, I’m not really talking about “buggy” software. That’s another problem. I’m talking about software that just plain sucks to start with and [...]

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2005. Posted in Technology, Work | 1 Comment »>

Folding in Oxygen XML

Phew, v5.1 of Oxygen XML added code folding. Not a day too soon. I use Oxygen as an Eclipse plug-in for all my XSL, XSL-FO work — which I’m just diving back into deeply prepping a new print catalog generated from the data we use on the website.

The XSL I’m using to generate [...]

Tuesday, January 18th, 2005. Posted in Technology, Work | No Comments »>

It’s live!

The new version of website/webstore that I’ve been doing for work is now “live.” It’s been largely done and in-use by a handful of customers for several months, but we finally flipped the switch and moved it over the “www” address. It’s a custom .NET site, all written in C# that fully integrates [...]

Thursday, January 6th, 2005. Posted in .NET, Dynamics AX, Work, XML | 4 Comments »> « Previous Entries Next Entries »