jonandnic dot com | 2007 July

Genesis 2:18

Then the LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone…”
Fortunately my brothers and sister’s in Christ have my back, and so far I’ve yet to spend an evening alone this week - But I sure do miss Nic and Ben. He better not like, start talking or something while they’re [...]

Posted on July 31st, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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Lonely. I am so lonely.

Well goodbye to all my people heading off to Sr. High camp for a week — including my wife and son. Hope you have a great time… I’ll just be here… working!
Fortunately, the Preston boys are gonna be here tonite to keep me company, enroute from Ontario to Boston, with a stop at the baseball [...]

Posted on July 30th, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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Weekend summary in as few words as possible

Dinner Theater: Cute, but why are all our dinner theater experiences always affected by flamboyantly gay people?
Hotel: Very rustic and homey, but cozy and comfortable.
Latern-lit Chasm Tour: Closed, but man would it have been cool if it were open.
Ed Young: FANTASTIC! Just… awesome.
Stomach: A constant source of discomfort all weekend.

Posted on July 29th, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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It’s always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Yesterday, after a 2 hour meeting where I had to do most of the talking, I handed off part one of the project I’ve essentially been working toward since I started to QA. Although officially the project didn’t take off until about February, the idea has existed in one iteration or another for quite some [...]

Posted on July 27th, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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I am such a geek

My keyboard is…
- connected to a Windows PC over USB
- then connected to a Mac over Synergy
- then connected to a PC over a virtual USB port in a hosted Virtual Machine
- then connected to another PC over a remote desktop connection
No wonder my key mappings aren’t working properly. Just for kicks, I should try [...]

Posted on July 25th, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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Just Keeps Getting Cuter…

This past week Benjamin’s made some huge leaps in development. From the painful looking frog-hop/belly flop, he’s figured out how to put one hand in front of the other and do a real, honest-to-goodness crawl. He still only does it about half the time — when the road gets difficult, he’ll switch back to the [...]

Posted on July 24th, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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Building Wealth?

Don’t try doing it in the States right now.
When we moved here, it seemed like a good gamble. We could make 20% more on our Canadian dollar, just by working in the States. Now it seems the tables have turned — the sad little CAN$ is now worth slightly more than the US$. Which means [...]

Posted on July 24th, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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It’s Demo Day!

Today is the alpha release of phase 1 of my project. Thursday it gets handed off to QA for intense testing — which will undoubtedly uncover some bugs. Nonetheless, this is the result of a lot of work by me, and two other team mates who’s creative solutions to the problems I pose are doing [...]

Posted on July 24th, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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More Birthdays

Today’s my birthday — which means it’s also Nic’s sister’s birthday. Happy Birthday Pammy!
I am now officially in my “late 20s.” Blech.
Shout-outs to Bill Coleman too, for his birthday on Wednesday. He remains older than me.

Posted on July 23rd, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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