I discovered the cd mix of the month club yesterday, after reading this article in the Times. Pretty cool idea. I’ve already made a mix to send off. Hopefully, the mention in the Times doesn’t bury the poor guy.
Month: January 2003
Emusic
After going for quite some time without downloading and burning anything from Emusic, I went nuts today and burned 4 CDs. Soft Boys, Solarized, Boss Hog, Matt Pond PA, Ivy, and one song from Cat Power.
O’Reilly books
I now have three O’Reilly books on .Net that I need to read:
Programming C#, and
Hopefully, I can make it through enough of this stuff to get to the point that I can do some useful work with C# and ASP.NET!
Working late
Wound up working late both yesterday and today. Hopefully, I can get home on time tomorrow. I’m tired and cranky, darn it!
Dad
Yikes! It looks like my Dad has discovered my home page. (At very least, he’s discovered my guest book.) I’m going to have to be careful what I say now!
In case anyone ever wants to look through all my really old Blog entries, I just created index pages for 2001 and 2002. Apparently, I started Blogging in June 2001, and I haven’t stopped. I also haven’t said anything interesting yet, either. Oh well.
Money
“Even if money can’t buy happiness, it sure can buy a really nice TV.”
Heather and Patrick
Check out Heather and Patrick’s new web site.
Blast from the Past
No C# tonight. I’ve been paging through some old issues of DDJ from 1996. Ah, for the days when articles about PowerBuilder occasionaly appeared in mainstream programming magazines. And Java was new. And the Year 2000 problem was just starting to freak people out. I let my subscription to DDJ lapse in 1996, and I’ve had the last few issues just sitting, unread, under the microwave since then. Time to finish them off and put them out at the curb, methinks.
Mr. Productivity
I just spent the last 2 hours working on converting an old C++ program to C#. I sorta like C#, but this particular program used every part of C++ that C# trashed or changed drastically: function pointers, unions, friend classes, oddball stream handling, and other stuff like that. That’s good, of course, since the whole point of this exercise is to learn C#. Actually, I haven’t used C++ in so long, I don’t remember what some of the fancy stuff in this program is doing anyway.
William Gibson
Stumbled across William Gibson’s web site tonight. Pretty cool. And he’s got a new book coming out! I remember reading, and loving, Neuromancer when it first came out. I’ve read most of his other books, and they’re all pretty nice, too, especially The Difference Engine. The front page of the site looks a little like it was designed by Dave McKean.