So here I am after break back at school. Some may already know that Kim and I went to Michigan over spring break (this past week). Kim was taking a class in some fluid dynamics class called Fluent (I think, at least the company who makes it is called Fluent, and I know how I make fun of people that say "Oh, you use Adobe???" Anyway... She had broken her arm the previous weekend while snowboarding at Holliday Valley. I played games, did Internet things, chatted, watched TV, and slept while she was doing her thing. I drove her to and from class in her new Honda Accord Coupe, which was nice.
The Internet situation in our hotel room is kind of interesting. There was one little spot in the room that had a decent enough signal that you wouldn't get disconnected constantly. That spot was in the far corner between the door and the bathroom, so that was inconvenient. I had brought along an access point just in case, and the Holiday inn lent us a wireless bridge. So I hooked up the bridge to my access point to basically act as a range extender. I then was able to connect to the new wireless network at full strength from anywhere in the room. Kim with her PC laptop, however, was unable to connect to the new network! I think Window's super wireless capabilities may have been at hand, or maybe because I was using a bridge and only once client could connect through it, but she couldn't get past some cryptic "authenticating user" status or something like that. So what I came up with was setting my Mac to share the Internet via the Sharing preference pane through wired Ethernet to her. So her Internet went through a wire, into my Mac, through NAT, over wireless to the access point, through the bridge, through wireless to the hotels access point, then to I think it was SBC, etc. Kind of crazy, huh? Here is a cool graphic:
Before I went to Michigan, I went to visit Ed in Dayton. I met his friend Sara for the first time. It is nice to have a face to match people's names in conversation. So now she has a face, personality, voice, etc.
I have worked a bit on my color picker? It's pretty slick now, although kind of slow because of VB issues?
I went to court for my ticket. I was really nervous before hand. I went in, pleaded innocent, they offered to not give me the points, then I pleaded no contest, paid my $100 plus $62 in court fees, and that's all done with.
I am sure you have seen those crazy W3C links on sites that you can click on to see the validation of a website. Basically bragging: ?look, I'm valid, here is the proof!? They are all over. And the funny thing is, most of the time I click on the link to validate it, I get an INVALID from W3C. Some one needs to make a spider to crawl the net to find all these links and get a ration of invalid to valid. And then maybe compare it to ones without links.
I had an interview at Hyland Software this past Friday. I was kind of nervous there too. I talked to a whole bunch of people etc and hopefully I'll get he job. They were all really nice to talk with and the place is really cool.