I haven't written in here in forever. I've been really busy with work trying to get caught up on things. This week I spent some time learning the Direct3D (now known as DirectX Graphics) APIs. Pixel Shaders are amazing things. Ever since I came over to this group four months ago, I've been jumping around learning one new thing then another. I'm hard pressed to remember another four month period in my career where I've been trying to learn so many new things at once. It's really good, but sometimes a little overwhelming.
Of course, I've been adding to my computer workload myself by working on some software in my free time. I'm trying to write a program to take email messages with Word documents attached and convert them into PDF for posting to a mailing list and/or convert to HTML and automatically post on a blog. The idea is to make it a lot easier for people in our church to update the church web site. It's getting there...
Meredith started her new job two weeks ago, as the new Director of Youth Ministries at Community United Methodist Church in Half Moon Bay. She loves it, except when there's a really slow-moving truck trying to go over Highway 92 into Half Moon Bay.
Yesterday we went to the Microsoft company picnic, held at the San Francisco Zoo. Meredith enjoyed it much more than the company picnic last year at Great America.
We went to see Tomb Raider 2 last night. It was definitely an entertaining couple of hours. A high concept motion picture it wasn't, but it was good fun. Also, the movie theater is air conditioned. Although getting out of the movie theater at the same time a concert was letting out of Shoreline Ampitheatre was fun, especially when we discovered that MVPD had blocked off Shoreline, forcing us to go home via 101. Ah well.
I found blogshares.com in my referrer logs. I don't quite get the site -- it's like a fantasy stock market, only instead of trading shares of companies, you trade shares of ... blogs. It seems that my blog is not worth very much -- small surprise there. But, curiously enough (to me), there are people who have traded shares of 'Some Boring Words'. I'm sure there's something to this that I'm just not getting right now.
Posted by Mike at July 27, 2003 11:05 PMWhoa -- have you checked out your blogshares share price lately? Looks like things really took off once you publicly (does mohea count as a public forum?) noted your indifference and nonplusion... No matter, though -- just consider yourself lucky you got in on the ground floor!
Posted by: pefty on October 20, 2003 01:08 AM