Archive for December, 2003

Holidays, Vegas, Fedora

Tuesday, December 30th, 2003

Holidays: I hope everybody had a Merry Christmas. And I hope I everybody has a happy New Year as well. I got gifts, I gave gifts, and then I went to Vegas.
Vegas: I had fun in Vegas. I had a really nice hotel suite (at THEhotel at Mandalay Bay). I saw Mystere, Mamma Mia, and [...]

Books

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2003

Some books I want to get:

Design Patterns
The Practice of Programming
More Effective C++
Effective STL
For work:

MySQL Cookbook
Yea, I’m a nerd. (I used unordered lists, but that’s pretty much the order I want them in. Though the MySQL book is kinda in a separate queue.)

Project Status

Monday, December 1st, 2003

How was your Thanksgiving? The turkey was good. The family was good too.
I had hoped to finish my current project (the Etherpeg inspired one) over the Thanksgiving weekend. But I overestimated the amount of spare time I had, and underestimated the amount of work I had left. I made some good progress, but not enough. [...]