I am at the infotech niagara show/thing at the convention center. The synacor people talked to me again about leaving my job. They said they hired Mike Cooke, one of my (not very reliable but talented) former students.

Nothing here is interesting. Geico, verizon. We didn't know we were supposed to have a stand.

This won best web site in western NY There is a serious problem with that because it is not the best web site by any means. It looks like a student project and has very little content.

At least the snacks are good.





Ingram micro was giving out fans. They were seriouslt the lmaest ever. They came with a screwdriver to open the battery pack, but unfortunately the screwdriver was the wrong size for the escrew. Why not a latch. They also doubled as a radio. Who needs a cell phone size mini fan/radio. What total crap!



The whole evening was pretty lame. It seemed like a bunch of people that paid a lot of money to be in a group to give each other awards. None of the people nominated were outside the group it seemed. At least the food was pretty good.

The only cool thing I learned was about a group called myhealthfinder.com . They have compiled lots of useful health care data per hospital compared to state average. So you can see which hospital to go to and which ones not to go to. The devloper was showsing us the graphs and was like, if I was having a heart attack I wouldn't go to this one because its way off the charts. You would probably die.

Looking at the graphs and stars Kenmore Mercy looks like a bad choice for just about everything. Its funny that they are based on gold stars (e:dragonlady7,5)

I am building a new Blog Feeder for roswell. It basically allows executives to write rss feeds with about one click. Those rss feeds, feed blogs on the main site. go XML!

Maybe I will adapt it for estip so that you can use it to publish your journals entries from it.

The colors are those of the new upcomming Roswell Park site.

So with the various job prospects around the corner, the real question is can anyone else compare with the food selection at Roswell. Today was stir fry day. That is my favorite at Roswell. They have all these veggies and you can make your own mix. THen they have tofu, steak, chicken and shrimp that you can mix and match with. Then they stir fry it with lomein noodles or rice and teryaki sauce or sweet and sour sauce.





Yesterday, I got really hungry and decided to see just how far I could push snack time. I wanted to eat more than two thousand calories just to see what it felt like to be a super fatass.

Here was my snack of over 2000 calories


Chocolate Milk ~420 calories


Combos ~1170 calories


Gummi Candies ~195 calories


Orange Juice ~240 calories


Necco Wafers - no pictures but around 300 calories

So like over 2000 calories it was for only about $7. Too bad it was such dicusting food. Combos taste good but they must be so sick for you.

My arm is much buffer now. I know you body builder types are saying what that is a stick but hey someday I will beat the shit out my worst enemy with it. Who are you worst enemy and how many more time do I have to press metal.



I cut off my crazy mad scientist hair. I went back to doing it myself. It takes 5 minutes instead of 2 hours.

According to the Buffalo News, someone was robbed outside Roswell. This is exactly why I am going to the gym and exactly why I don't like to walk home late at night. It would be so great to be able to beat the shit out someone if they tried to rob me.

    

A 35-year-old Roswell Park Cancer Institute employee suffered a dislocated jaw and other injuries after she was attacked and robbed Sunday by a teenager on a bicycle, Buffalo police reported.

The victim reported to police that she was at Carlton Street and Michigan Avenue when the teen approached her from behind and grabbed her purse. She was then thrown to the ground and punched in the head, police reported.

The purse contained a bank card, identification and personal effects.

This is like the tenth job offer this month but it is so hard to want to leave the benefits of being a state employee with long term job security.

The top of my semi-outdated ( I have made so much new stuff) says:

I am looking for a challenging full-time PHP/SQL/XML/JS/AJAX web programming/design job with benefits such as health insurance in my home town of Buffalo, NY. I have an amazing web development job in Buffalo, NY. Now I want one that pays me more than $50,000.

I changed it this because I was sick of job offers that were less than what I had going on. I mean who goes in that direction.

Then I got this email today.

Hi Paul,

I came across your resume (Google search on 'buffalo resume "content management"
Perl MySQL')

I am looking for a knowledgeable, creative and self-motivated person in Buffalo with
web/software development and content management system experience that is interested in playing a key role in the development and growth of my company, COMAND Solutions.

The intention is for that person to eventually become the Chief Technology
Officer.

Required Skills:
1. Web Page Development with HTML and JavaScript
2. Programming experience with PHP and Perl
3. SQL (more specifically MySQL)
4. Linux system administration including set up and maintenance of RedHat/Fedora
servers with Apache, PHP, MySQL, etc.
5. Excellent organization and communication

Initial Responsibilities:
1. Develop, implement and maintain client web sites (HTML, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL)
in webCOMAND, our content management system.
2. Manage collection of remote webCOMAND, email and backup servers.
3. Manage and prioritize webCOMAND feature requests and bug reports.

Future Responsibilities:
1. Project management, including project specification, estimates and delegation to
a small team of developers.
2. Find, develop and implement systems to improve and automate company operations.
3. Help develop webCOMAND.

You can learn a little more about COMAND Solutions and webCOMAND at:


From what I see online, it looks like you may be the perfect candidate, except that you seem to already have a job at Roswell Park. However, I think this opportunity may be far more interesting to you and offers a lot more potential, as far as long-term growth. It is also a work from home position, which may or may not be more appealing to you.

Let me know if this is something you might be interested in and we can discuss everything in more detail.

Thank you,
Mitch

Mitch,
I may be interested in your position. I believe you are correct when you said, "it looks like you may be the perfect candidate for the job." I have a lot of experience and capability that I could transfer to that position.

At this point I would like to learn more about the nature of your company and more importantly the long term prospects of what you are proposing. Google returned no results for ("command solutions" buffalo) and webcommand.com appears to just be a list of links by associated by keyword.

While money might lure my interest to a new project, the longterm stability and benefits of my current Programmer/Analyst position at Roswell also have to be factored in.

Hope to hear from your soon.

Thank you for your time,
Paul Visco

I wonder where this will go. I imagine nothing will rip me away from Roswell.