Two down and one to go: I forgot to mention that Dr. Wilkie read my thesis and gave it a clean bill of health. I haven’t seen his comments yet (since they’re in Fayetteville and I’m here). But, based on the email he sent me, everything looks great. I’ll just have to fix some minor [...]
Today is the last day before my big trip to San Diego, which will also be my first trip to California (or most anywhere that far west). I don’t think it’s entirely dawned on me that I’m going to be away from the usual grind. But it’ll have to soon. I’m leaving Saturday. So today [...]
It is finished: I turned in my thesis today to the members of my thesis committee. The director has already approved it. So now the committee (two people, really) will read it and probably make a few comments. Then we set up the oral defense and (assuming all goes well) it’s all over. It’s been [...]
I have a feeling today is going to be a near-perfect day. My bosses are both on vacation (along with all of the student body and most of the U of A staff), so I can have hours of relatively uninterupted time to work on scripts and other projects. I got here early today, so [...]
It’s been a pretty good day. I made some progress on a press kit for Nancy. Yesterday, I mailed out workshop handouts to 126 students who missed our February technology workshop. One of the parents called me today, concerned that her child might not be attending regularly (false alarm–it was the only workshop she had [...]
Dad seemed a lot better yesterday. He took a walk with me to the end of the hospital ward. I made him use his walker and he did very well with it (and cut a pretty mean pace for an 83-year-old man). He’s getting better. There’s talk of discharging him from the hospital wing to [...]
I really hate the freshmeat redesign, but the new php.net redsign almost makes up for it.
My dad is in the hospital. He was complaining of chest pains and his attendant (a woman named Bonnie who comes by every weekday to care for him) thought he might be having a stroke. They sent him via ambulance to Springdale. Gina, my sister, and I waited in the emergency room for four hours [...]
Back when blogger was having a lot of technical difficulties (which is why I ended up creating this new blog in the first place), I toyed with the idea of rolling my own blogger-ish web publishing/journaling solution using PHP and MySQL. I finally decided to try it out and after two days of coding, I [...]
I now have a fully-functional, open source, web server on my laptop. I don’t use it to serve files to the outside world, but I do use it as the localhost so I can test all of my pages and make sure they’re functional before I upload changes to the production web servers, which are [...]