The world as I see it

Well, the sea of boxes is still here. I don't know when I will ever have the time to go through them and filter out what's good from what's trash. Some people would say it's all trash, but I know better. Work is eyeball deep. I'm doing the work of three developers, but then how is that different from any good job I have had. I have help now, we (the company) picked up a programmer straight out of college and he is working out just fine. A contracter came on board yesterday and I have high hopes for him too. Our biggest problem is the performance of our application. The back end is an Oracle database and I will be the first to say I have no knowledge or understanding of tuning that beast, but it needs it bad. More later, got to get back to work.

For all you who care and those who don't I have relocated. While I haven't been blogging for some time, a lot has happened. The company I worked for, Enterprise Network Applications has collapsed. I have followed the software I wrote there to a client. This required a move from Sunny Atlanta to Charleston West Virginia. A quiet little town in the western mountains of West Virginia. The new job is nice, but the apartment is a sea of boxes. A friend of mine from the old Learning Company days now has a blog and here is his link: The Cursed Juggler and boy is he. Give him a read if you want. Back to work.

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Ok, now I just know I have not had anything interesting, read ANYTHING, to say these days, but I will make an effort to keep updating this blog on a regular basis. I am about to redesign the home pages. The first redesign since I posted them up over 3 years ago. It will include more of my poetry, better pictures and all sorts of neat stuff I've always wanted to try out. My ISP does not have server-side scripting for us poor dial-up/DSL accounts, gotta pay extra for that, so I'm just going to stick to DHTML and XML this go-around.

*blinks at blogger* where are my archives?

I see that blogger has gotten to big for its servers. Too bad I enjoy reading them and sometimes writing them too. Maybe later.

Subject: Stand proud America! This, from a Canadian newspaper, is worth sharing. Widespread but only partial news coverage was given recently to a remarkable editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television commentator. What follows is the full text of his trenchant remarks as printed in the Congressional Record: "This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least appreciated people on all the earth. Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. None of these countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States. When France was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up, and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it. When earthquakes hit dis...