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Category: computers

01/27/08 01:03 - 28ºF - ID#43046

Computers Suck Sometimes

I spent the entire evening working on the server. There is so much stuff that is barely documented in any easy to find place - argh but it seems to be working and it is way faster than the old one - so good for that.

(e:terry) went to some party with cats and then dancing for the last night of dancing at Off The Wall and (e:matthew) worked and then went to bed.

I hope winter will just end soon because right now I am on the verge of going crazy. Yesterday, a hard drive with lots of important backup stuff crashed. I was so annoyed considering I could have easily had a backup of he backup - but I didn't. Sometimes, even I hate computers.

I have a recovery program that could grab the data off of the drive but its a really time consuming file by file process and I don't have the time. So what is going to happen is the drive is going to go in the attic with the other 20 miscellaneous hard drives and someday if I need the data I will try again then.
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Category: words

01/26/08 11:19 - 22ºF - ID#43040

Words that annoy me

Unbleached
What is it with words like unbleached. I was reading the ingredients on some bread that said it contained unbleached flour. To me, it seems like it should really be non-bleached flour as unbleached implies that it was bleached and then the bleaching was removed or something.

Like, how untying your shoelace kind of requires that it be tied in the first place.

Wireless Thermostats
Does anyone have a wireless thermostat. I want one but I never saw one before. I ams ure they exist.
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Category: buffalo

01/26/08 10:17 - 22ºF - ID#43039

Friday

YAPL - Yet Another Parking Lot
On the way to work in the morning I was walking past this building and what appeared to be a Realtor outside was telling a couple that the building I circled in red was slotted to become a parking lot. They were just working with the city to get the permits or something. Maybe, I heard them wrong. I really don't care either way as that part of the street is so dead from Medina Deli to the Dare Care but I wonder just how many parking lots will be on Main Street in the end.

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For some reason, that was the only picture I took yesterday. It's weird.

Work
It was a great day for programming. I got so much done but I still feel like 10 feet underground because of the crazy amount of stuff I have lined up. There are seriously like 17 million things I have to program. Maybe I need a 30 inch monitor like (e:jim).

I got this security system deployed for the IP cameras at work. I was really happy with the result and apparently so was the VP of secuirty.

Uh, can I RAVE about this Paul Visco guy just a little bit right now.

Smokin hot.



So, seriously, I am a hard worker and I love doing what I do - and it is so great getting positive feedback from work. During my five years at Canisius I did some amazing stuff which I thought really helped the program and I never felt appreciated. What a difference it makes to feel like you are making a difference at your job and that you are important.

Night Time
(e:terry) and I went out with (e:jim) and (e:james). It was fun as usual and the first time I had some drinks since the Crohn's thing started. I felt fine. In fact I didn't feel sick at all today. Asacol is seriously a miracle drug. I just wish I didn't have to take 9 pills a day.
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Category: school

01/25/08 12:52 - 16ºF - ID#43026

At School WIth Terry

I am so glad I was never in a major that involved classrooms with lots of people.

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(e:terry)'s classes are in a room that could hold like 300 people. It has the ambiance of a bingo hall. It actually sounds almost just like one. People were disgusting and they left food everywhere.

Liek in every direction people just left food and drinks. I don't think I was ever in a class with more than like 30 people. Oh, once this biology class in germany but it was very intense and the people were really into it as you had to respond.

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UB had this whole display about planning and talked about parking. Wow, there is sure a lot of it there on North Campus.

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I got home a decided to take apart one of the old PDAs to see if I could canabalize the gsm modem for the not phone. I think it is totally possible but now I want a HSPDA one.
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Watching the way over GPS
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They had these crazy new pillar statues that look like they are being blown over, over by capen.
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We ate dinner at Fuji Grill again.

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Fuji Grill tastes pretty good but my surf clam was nothing liek the one I got the other day although it was very cute
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(e:terry) got stir fry
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Category: estrip

01/24/08 11:40 - 16ºF - ID#43024

8,000,000 views later

I seriously cannot believe the journals have been loaded over 8 freakin' million 8,000,000 times. It seems like only yesterday it was 8,000. It amazes me more when I think about how much the old server has been though over the last couple years. I already am reconditioning it as a second server. Someday maybe we will need it.

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I know code on a much more tightly timed loop could run a quadrillion times but it is exciting to see something you made work 8,000,000 without that many problems.
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Category: mobile

01/24/08 07:48 - 18ºF - ID#43019 pmobl

I freakin love the not phone

I know everyone is probably sick of hearing about it but this new Nokia n810 and the xjournal program that lets you handwrite full size pdfs and draw on them as journaled diary pages is like everything I ever dreamed of.

Hopefully now my handwriting just gets better.

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Category: crohns

01/24/08 05:48 - 19ºF - ID#43017 pmobl

New Doctor and Allergies

Dr. Bartolone believes it is crohns too. Says it doesn't matter either way as the meds are the same. I guess I really am on asacol for the rest of my freakin life. I am going to do a time lapse of my 270 pills in a bottle going away to 0.

At least it doesn't have any real side effects for me. He said if I am not experiencing them now, I won't probably later.

So seriously, no one knows what causes this and I am at least lucky that mine is manageable. I think I will just east healthy from now on and hope for the best.

I hope medical science figures out some more details, someday.

And I got a copy of my allergy tests. I am way less allergic to dogs than cats. It wasn't just in my head. I am as allergic to maple and birch trees as I am to dogs. Cats I am way allergic to but even more than that I am alergic to mold that grows on plants and ragweed. In fact I am almost 5 times s allergic to ragweed as I am to trees.

They are sending me for a celliac disease test too s the other allergy test only confirmed an allergy to wheat and not that I am gluten intolerant.

Dr Bartolones office is so the future of doctors offices. It was beyond clean and formal. Everything was digitized and all the nurses carried portable tablet PCs. Even the screen had privacy screens. Morever, all the signatures were digital.

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Category: mobile

01/24/08 03:36 - 20ºF - ID#43013 pmobl

GPS 7

This is my seventh GPS device and I think my favorite yet. There is something ironic about taking a picture of this new device and talking about it from my windows mobile device.

Oh god, how I am going to choose what mobile devices to carry with me. I think the tilt but really be the best one ever. The keyboard on it is just so damn good. If only it ran something besides windows mobile.
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Category: crohns

01/24/08 12:31 - 21ºF - ID#43010

On The phone waiting

I spent so much of the morning on the phone waiting on hold to try and get all my medical records and test results to one place for a doctors appointment this afternoon.

Luckily, you can program and wait so it wasn't so bad. I am going to try and get my own copy of it all, now that it is in one place. This should be exciting to see one gastro enterologist who specialized in these types of problems, with all my test results (CT, colonscopy, and blood test) all in one place.

The doctor is Dr. Bartolone over at Buffalo Gastroentrology Associated at 60 Maple Rd.

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Category: health

01/24/08 10:16 - 18ºF - ID#43007

Stupid Zits

Argh, the steroids are starting to give me zits on my face. I never had zits like this before.
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