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Notes for 6-15-2005

Been really busy lately, so I haven’t been posting as much. Anyway, here’s some notes for today and yesterday…

  • If you want to learn more about podcasting, definitely join us for the Edmonton Podcasters Meetup on Saturday! I’m really looking forward to the event.
  • We’ve entered the testing phase of the robot creation process, so
    that’s definitely good news. Tomorrow will determine whether we’re on
    schedule or behind, but I’m pretty confident the robot can make an
    appearance on Saturday.
  • No one does steak like The Keg.
  • Welcome back to blogging Dad.

I’ve got a fairly big announcement to make tomorrow, and no it isn’t
related to the robot, but I promise it’ll be cool so watch for that.

Notes for 6-11-2005

I’ve only done a couple of these so far, but I find that making a “notes”-like post now and then helps organize my scatterbrained mind…

  • My Dad comes into town tomorrow, for much longer this time, so that should be fun!
  • I have a ton of pictures from the various convocations over the last week. If you want a copy of the pictures on CD, please let me know so I can bring you one, or drop by the office to get one.
  • Work continues on the robot, we’re making progress. Looks like we’ll have to push back the testing day slightly, but I’m still confident we can make our target date.
  • I really enjoyed my business law class last semester, and it turns out that I am using knowledge from it already. Perhaps there is a connection between classes you like and the amount you use them!
  • Dickson is right, there is definitely some strange stuff downtown late at night.

I can’t believe we’re already almost two weeks into the month. There just isn’t enough time I tell you!

Notes for 6-5-2005

Seems odd that I haven’t been posting like normal lately! I guess with only a couple weeks left until Seattle, work and related projects are starting to take up more and more time. It’s crunch time! Anyway, some notes for today:

  • Work on the robot continues. We decided to bring in a pro to help us out; welcome aboard Ashish! As a result, completion looks more and more likely 🙂
  • Little bottles of Baha Rosa make excellent birthday gifts. Or at the very least, they sure are tasty.
  • The Longest Yard is a very funny movie, I highly recommend it!
  • I have been trying to get an old computer here running again. Turns out, I have finally found a need for a USB floppy drive. Disgusting!
  • Will I be able to run Mac OS X on my Intel box soon? Looks like we’ll find out tomorrow.
  • I know Andrea‘s weakness!!!
  • Dickson seems to think that parking downtown is worse on Sunday than on Saturday and I think he’s right. Took me forever to find a spot today.
  • Four camping trips tentatively scheduled for this summer, which means I need to go buy more rum 😉

And now, back to the code!

Notes for 5-31-2005

So much to say, so little time to write it. Here’s a quick “get caught up” post for today:

  • Happy Birthday Felicia! Hope you enjoyed your day 🙂
  • We had the Imagine Cup Conference Call this afternoon, and it went quite well. We’re hoping to have more in the future, so if you’re interested, let me know! I’ll follow this up with a post later.
  • Watched Dickson finish Fable this afternoon, appeared far too easy. I am close to finishing too. Enflame is by far the best Will weapon in the game!
  • I have decided that reheated Pizza 73 is better than reheated Panago, simply because the crusts don’t get all hard.
  • The door for the room inside our office finally got installed today, the signage was put up last week. That means, party soon!

Dickson, Andrew and I are off to Calgary for the day tomorrow, on official Paramagnus business! Of course we’re never too far from an Internet-connected computer, so maybe we’ll post something from the road. The quest to build the robot continues!

The Big Redesign

If you’re reading this on the web, you’ve no doubt noticed that I
have a new look! I finally completed a site redesign that I started
back in January, and just never got around to finishing. There was
always too many things on the go, so I’d do little bits at a time.

Somewhere along the way, Community Server
was released, and I started using it for our Paramagnus blogs. I made
the decision to upgrade my blog from the old .Text, to the new
Community Server 1.0, and I completed that upgrade last night. It has
some really cool features, like Search (which you can get to on the
right). I used a really great conversion tool called DotTextCSConverter,
which has the unique ability to keep all of my post ID’s the same. This
means that hopefully, there should be no broken links! If you do notice
one, please let me know, and I’ll see what I can do.

As you can probably guess, I am still tweaking things. I have some
more things to add to the right, and some other changes to make,
especially if you give me some constructive feedback. One new thing is
the navigation bar at the top! You’ll notice it has a Podcast button –
this is not working yet. Also, the Gallery is still my old design, I
have not upgraded it yet (actually I probably won’t upgrade it, it will
simply be replaced). Everything else is using the new design now,
though.

Here’s what I was going for with the redesign: a cleaner, more
professional look that didn’t completely drop the personal elements of
the site. Quite simply, my old site was getting far too cluttered and
messy. I hope you like the new design!