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New user? Sunday, April 18, 2004
April is busy, May and June will be too
Geez, nearly two weeks have past since I posted here. I've tried to post a couple of times, but my site was down for backups.
It's been a really busy month so far, at work and at home, and as far as home stuff goes, it's only just begun.
I'm moving after next weekend! Yeah, we sold the house we built in 2002. Once we're in our new house I'll explain what motivated us to move, yet again.
One side-benefit of the move is we'll be living right next door to the elementary school Cyan is going to next year. I remember living right next door to school in grade 5 and 6, it was awesome being so close. Playground and fields so close, and I suppose I got to sleep an extra 5 or 10 minutes because of it too. :-)
The best thing was probably going home for lunch every day and watching the Flintstones with my Dad, who was at home for much of that period with a back injury. I got my first computer for Christmas in grade 6, so I probably spent my lunch hours playing video games or hacking after that. :-)
Selling most of my D&D collection
I'm selling most of my D&D book collection on eBay. Here's the link to the auction:
D&D Rulebooks, Modules, Accessories - HUGE D&D lot
Bid high, bid often! ;-)
Tuesday, April 6, 2004
Tear-off menus rule
I just wanted to get this off of my chest. If I could only have one new feature in Mac OS X 10.4, I would want:
- EOF for Cocoa/ObjC (duh, okay, two features, this one goes without saying but it trumps everything by a million miles and I wouldn't want anyone thinking I don't care about it anymore, because I do!).
- Tear-off menus like in OpenStep/Rhapsody.
I really really miss tear-off menus. They are so darn handy.
There, I said it, and I feel better.
Monday, April 5, 2004
Quitting in disgust
Rafe: Quitting in disgust
You don't have to be financially secure to quit a job in disgust... I've done it twice, and I wasn't financially secure either time.
Granted, once it was because I was disgusted with my salary and I immediately moved to a higher paying job, but the other time I left myself unemployed and scrambling for work. I was in a situation where I was asked to do something I felt was unethical, and rather than harm my integrity, reputation and conscience, I quit the job. It severely screwed my family financially (we're still digging out of that mess actually), but it was the right thing to do and I don't regret it at all.
Nothing I control is worth more than my integrity and I'll sacrifice a lot to protect it.
I'm not suggesting that Rafe quit his job... heck if I quit my job every time I was "disgusted" at something going on at work I would have stopped looking for new jobs ages ago. But sometimes, the level of disgust necessitates a change regardless of the consequences.
