jonandnic dot com | 2007 October

Learning to get around

Over the past couple months Benjamin has gotten more and more mobile. A little over 3 weeks ago he took his first tentative step. Since then we’ve pretty much had to trick him into walking — distract him with a toy or something so he doesn’t realise he’s not holding on to anything. Last week [...]

Posted on October 15th, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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There’s no escaping from the bass

Both parts of my project went Alpha 2 today, at two demos for select customers and integrators. The feedback was overwhelmingly positive — and most of the questions/suggestions were things that I already had a good answer for. It still a long haul until release (and I have to break in a new grid guy [...]

Posted on October 12th, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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Code Poetry

I have received some feedback, from across the pond (and other places) that some of my posts are incomprehensible — meaning that they’re too geeky for the average person to understand or have any interest in.
While speaking as a geek, I can’t fathom how people wouldn’t be fascinated by the details of configuring WordPress, or [...]

Posted on October 10th, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
Filed under: Current News & Events | 8 Comments »

A stranger with the door key, explaining that I’m just visiting…

I complain a lot about the US$. I thought today I’d explain why.
When we first considered moving to the States — easily 4 years ago, the prospects were great. Not only do US employers pay significantly better, but they pay in US dollars, which meant we could make even more on our money!!
This was the [...]

Posted on October 9th, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
Filed under: Politics, Travel & Adventure | 5 Comments »

Website Changes

I spent the morning making a few changes to the website. I can’t sing enough praises to WestHost, my new Linux-based hosting company. They give me full access to my httpd.conf file, and even let me restart my “server.” Its made doing some more advanced configuration SO much easier. I can’t believe I used Windows [...]

Posted on October 6th, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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Geeky Good-byes

My geeks are leaving me!
First of all, there’s SuperJason — the guy I’ve been working with for the last 6 months who lives in Greenbay that I was was finally going to get to meet? Ya, he went ahead and got another job some place else. Not only will I have one less interesting [...]

Posted on October 4th, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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