I updated the resource listing for NetBeans to include information on wheel
mouse support. I also fix scaling bugs in the style sheet so that all of the
text will scale properly.

Well, not a lot has happened to write about, but John found a that
Adobe is finally taking the Palm seriously and has released a
beta of
Acrobat Reader for the PalmOS. I was really pumped up to see
it. I took a couple of seconds to download and install it and it really
does seem to work. Although, they recommend using Acrobat 5.0 to prepare the PDF
documents, the converter does work for some older documents.

I did find out that a new book has been published by
New Riders covering VIM. It was
written by Steve Oualline, the title is "

Vi IMproved - Vim". I’m finding that I’m needing to learn VIM the
more I work on *nix boxes. Since New Riders
is good about releasing quality books and it is pulling high marks on
Amazon,
I’m probably going to order it soon.

First Day Back To Work

Today was my first day at ChipData. Everything went well. They had an office,
computer, phone, and projects all ready for me. This has to be the most organized first
day at a new company I’ve ever been through.

Quicky

I spent last week working non-stop on projects around the house.
Hopefully some time this week, I’m going to post an article or two about the
projects. There were basically two big projects that I tackled: building
a bed next to the driveway so that I can relocate some shrubs and building
a replacement double gate in the fence to the backyard.

What a weekend. Besides soccer and all of that stuff, the biggest project was Alex’s
"Creativity Project". We spent a good part of the weekend building a
lighthouse night light, but it turned out well. Of course it’s due tomorrow, but there
are just a few minor touches that we’ve been adding. I help with soldering and
cutting of some of the materials, but he did most of it himself. I’ve got some
digital photos, but the quality is really bad. I may post them later.

I visited a new Qwest data center near my home with Jim Milo from wirecrossing.com.
This center opened 14 Feb 2001 and is only 10 minutes from my house. I can’t
consider moving servers into it yet, but it would be much closer to my house
than driving 20+ miles to downtown Dallas. Everything is in a n+1 configuration
making it pretty reliable.

Job Search 2001 - Ends!

It’s official, I’ve faxed the form back to Jody and I’m now off the market.
Starting May 14th, I’ll be working for
ChipData located in Richardson, TX. It took a little over a month,
but I’m pleased with the results. Guess I’ll have to start getting up
early again.

I’ve moved the items off the original site and into this new web log format.
This format is the first step in the new weblog tool John and I are working
on.

Welcome

This is going to be my scratch pad for various things that interest me.
As any new site, this one is going to be light on content for a while. In
fact most of the content here is going to focus on Job Hunt 2001.

Current Notions

It took a little while, but the site is now in a state where I can add content
more quickly. I have temporarily given up on XInclude and just created a helper
class to do the merging for me. The site is now running under Tomcat, it is
built and published using Ant, and all of the content is now XML based!

I’ve started a resources page, but there is much to be done. I’ll add entries
and annotate it shortly. The next step I think will be to add an about the site
page that describes the techniques I’m using for this site.

Job Hunt 2001

As many of you know, my last employer Vast Solutions decided to go
out of business without any warning. I guess that is always a risk with a
startup, but John
and I thought we had done better research on this one. We were told that
they had revenue, a burn rate that would last through Q3 or early Q4, and
they were a spin-off of a larger corporation. I guess you never really know.

I’m reworking my online resume. After review by several folks, I expanded it
to add more detailed information about what I’ve done over the years. It is
sometimes difficult to capture all of the little things, but I think I cover
the important ones. In the mean time, you can pull the
Word/RTF version.