Month: September 2005

I spent about 12 hours straight yesterday developing a framework of an application in PHP. I wrote it with well documented, sematically correct HTML along with elegant CSS and not a single table. It works beautifully in Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari. My custom authentication script secures the application against unauthorized access but also makes it impractical to show off my work.

Sometimes it is frustrating to write beautiful code or elegantly designed databases and because the work is proprietary or has company mission critical data I am unable to demonstrate my skills. For a long time I have tried to budget a couple of days at the end of each project to update my resume and create a static presentation of the site but with projects running on top of other projects such luxury of time is not available.

Today: unstable, irresponsible

And I’d do unthinkable things for a cup of coffee right now!

No. Not another. Evan may 27.

Fantastic

Good memories

Apparently for the past 12 hours I’ve been sitting on my glasses.

This guy is selling pixels in blocks of 100 with a minimum purchase of 100 for $100. His website has made him £32k! And still I work my tail off and struggle to make ends meet.

Of course, I find this an interesting one time fund raiser: "Last year Bristol University student Rosie Reid raised £8,400 by auctioning her virginity online to help fund her education."

I have perfect vision again! Er, rather I don’t own glasses anymore…

Today: Exhausted. Mentally, physically.

Student: What’s the difference between a prostitute and a computer consultant?
Master: A prostitute knows when the job is done.

I understand. Let’s not forget the bad experiences so that we don’t repeat them. Amy this morning explained that the boo boo on her leg came from when she fell off "your stage" (the one I juggled on in May). She has also been talking about Lucy biting her eye. I hope she cherishes the good moments as much as she ponders these more tramatic incidents.

Amy is in a great mood this morning. She’s been participating with the television shows answering their prompts and singing loudly.

Today: Frustration

Many times I’ve visited the concept of "airing dirty laundry" and pondered how appalled my grandparents would be knowing I have not kept our stories in the family and been so casual in my publishings to the world. I wonder if the blog had something to do with the job rejection I recently received.

So we’ve been brazen and as an outlet, document trail, journal, for others to learn, and just for fun, we publish our trials and tribulations with Aspergers Syndrome. The ever positive people of alt.support.childfree have labeled us as bad parents and beggers and hinted that we are scammers. The attitudes depicted in their dialog are rather common amongst the more naive when first confronted with a special needs child. None-the-less, their discussion is exactly the sort of outlandishness that makes me question the sanity or rationale behind this blog or Tommy’s blog.

I need only return to the comments we have received which have expressed thanks for the blog, shared common ground, provided insight and suggestions, or otherwise built a bond to remind me that there are more positive good people in the world than the occasional bad apple.

• Mason Ruffner Gypsy Blood
• Drivin’ An’ Cryin’ Mystery Road

So I’ve begun the installation of Windows 2003 on a Compaq ProLiant DL590/64. First off, just turning the machine on makes my office sound like the tarmack of the airport. This thing has enough high speed fans that it could have cooled the house when the a/c went out. Then this happens:

“Load of Auxiliary Floating Point Driver failed: Unsupported”
– press any key to continue –

Deterred? Not at all. Challenged!