Changes… Lots of Changes
I should write in this journal more often. Hard to believe that I'd have enough stuff to put into it each day to fill a few pages. Now work and such is slower and there seems less and less to write about. But I'll try to bring things up to date.
I got a windfall and purchased a 17-inch Powerbook. It's everything that all the reviewers are saying: awesome display, excellent keyboard, fast and a lot of fun. I ended up moving everything from my iBook to the new Powerbook so I didn't loose anything and it took a lot less time than I had thought. The Transfer Mode in OS X is exceptionally nice and makes the one machine look like a firewire drive to the other. I slaved my iBook to my Powerbook and simply copied things over. Very nice.
I've added several things to BKit, most notably is the inclusion of the VantagePoint graphing from Visualize Inc. to enable quick and easy graphing of data sets that I run into from time to time. The licensing for VantagePoint is excessively expensive (starts at $25,000), but for large corporations, I can see it being a reasonable payoff.
I've started work on a new version of the potential/electric field simulator for OS X - nothing fancy, but it's nice to be working on something like that again. I'm taking a new approach on the class structure as well as the simulation/solver code. I already like the way the changes have made things easier and cleaner, I hope they also make things quite a bit faster. I'm also banking on the AltiVec and the math libraries compiled into OS X to help on the speed issue.
Work has been somewhat interesting in that recently the powers that be have decided to thin things out a little more. This round of cuts comes to a group that's consistently been the most arrogant, unlikable group of people that I've ever met in one place. Lead, of course, by the two singularly most unlikable folks I've ever met. Now, to put a little bit of perspective on this, I haven't met any serial killers, or national politicians - yet. But up to now, these two are at the top of the list and by a wide margin. So now they get theirs. Karma... excellent.
It's getting close to Summer and that's nice, but it's still Spring, and that means school, activities, and work around the house. Lots of work around the house.
I'm guessing that's what's kept me from writing more in this journal than I have lately - not a lot of fun things I felt like sharing. Sure, life is generally good for me and I shouldn't complain. But there's a big difference between "not bad" and "good". I guess it takes more "good" things to happen for me to take the time to write them down.