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Just a quick note. Week one down I am still happy with my choice, and I am looking forward to dong and learning more.. Those that don't know that situation is working at Sony BMG in the group that handles the websites of the musicians. The people are awesome (Suzi, Dave, Jared, Andrew & everyone else I have met) and the environment is cool. The work though nothing earth shattering is something new for me, challenging enough to make me feel like I have accomplished something when it is complete.

Last night before the Oscar's started, me and the wife watched Pirates of the Caribbean : At World's End, finally. I had put this movie off for a long time since I had such a negatively feeling after the last iteration of this series. I think one of big reasons that this movie is a lot better, and more palletable is the return of Geoffrey Rush. It was definitely not the greatest movie, but this was visually stunning, and the ship scenes are gorgeous.

Hello there folks, I recently was sitting at my desk talking to my manager, and we were going over all the possible things I can do on my commute. I have an iPhone so this means music, podcasts, vodcasts, audiobooks, Twitter, Meebo, all the Google services, and oh yeah the rest of the internet at Edge speeds.

Today is a little follow-up after my last blog post...I did exchange my 8GB iPhone for the 16GB version, and paid the $40 idiot tax (10% restocking fee) for getting the privilege of using the iPhone for one week. The exchange process was very painless, when it came right down to it. When I went into the Apple store in Garden State Plaza, I asked if they had the 16GB iPhone instock, and after initially getting told it wasn't yet instock then moments later the sales person found me and told me it was.

I love my iPhone

So here it is, as I expected Data Structures is going to be amazing, and thought provoking, and Software Analysis and Design is going to be a sleeper. Last night I had my first Software Analysis and Design class, wow was it something to behold there are a total of 5 students. It was very different from what you might expect it is a "read the slides" kind of class, there is no programming what-so-ever, only lots of UML 2.0 and diagramming object-oriented methods. I hope to get some better perspective on software development life cycles, and how to take a UML diagram and implement it.

I am sitting in my DBMS class trying not to slam my face into my desk. I am tired, and it close to 20 degrees outside and close to 95 degrees in this room, and I am back listening to a teacher that can't teach. I guess I have had enough of this class, I don't mean to be disrespectful but this guy is awful. I trouped up here to school tonight a 2+ hour commute, and I have a cold for what to him to talk with his back to us, afraid to make eye contact with his students.

Well the blog had gone quiet for the last week or two, I was very busy with my current project, but in the end that wasn't why I haven't blogged. The main reason I haven't blogged is that my site was almost inaccessible, it was offline more often then it was online. I was hosted by GoDaddy.Com, and tonight in about 20 mins I moved the site over to HostMonster.Com, it took longer to upload the files and modules that make up a Drupal install then it did for DNS transfer, hosting account creation, database creation, and anything else I am forgetting.

At my day job today I was digging around Microsoft's site looking for information about a Citrix support issue. As an organization we have an application that is written and supported in-house. One of the reporting consoles that gives many reports and allows managers to printout and save reports. This console needs to be migrated to our central Citrix farm. Here is the issue; when the users try to save the reports they are seeing the servers hard drives along with their own. This is not only confusion to users but scary users shouldn't save anything on your servers.

Hello again all, I know that this isn't more CES news, or is it...A little background: Basically a security hole was discovered (Dec 27,2005) and brought to the attention of Microsoft on Dec. 28, 2005. This security issue allowed a malicious hacker/web site creator/spammer to use a security flaw in the way that ALL Windows Operating Systems dealt with files known as a Metafiles.