…After getting installed in the midst of a big project in the middle of the holidays, the CEO just came by to talk to me about my career path and my education background, and said that next week he wants to discuss the possibility of sponsoring me in a program to get a Bachelor’s or [...]

Well, as of ten minutes ago, my next week is going to be hell. That’s right, the four-day “holiday” week between Christmas and New Year’s is all the time I have to whip up a printed and electronic marketing campaign as well as a web presence for a new spinoff business we’re putting together. [...]

This is it, dudes. The last day of work for this week. It’s actually drizzling and nasty here in southwest Florida today; the skies are gray and it’s quite dismal outside, but I’m quite pleased—the long weekend officially starts tonight, as far as I’m concerned! I’m picking up some take-out for dinner, [...]

I don’t think I’ve detailed it on here previously, but it wasn’t long ago that my wife applied for a job at the local Ritz-Carlton resort. She’s always made hospitality her #1 career choice, and ever since arriving in the U.S. has aspired to work for the Ritz. She finally got her chance [...]

…Makes everything seem to move really slowly, makes supposedly important tasks seem completely irrelevant, makes you want to just run through the afternoon sunshine, soak up the fresh air, drive with the T-tops off, and just plain GO BURZURK. It’s not the kind of week when you want to be in the office, but [...]

Okay, this is starting to feel like a circus…but I’ve got the original Netflix Queue plugin back in service at last. The plugin’s author noticed that the version he uploaded to the plugin server today was an old revision—no idea how it got there—but after he replaced it with the correct code and I [...]

Much to my continued bafflement, the little Netflix queue plugin I installed the other day continues to thwart my every attempt to get it working again. It simply doesn’t make any sense. I even went back to the original author of the plugin and asked for help; he made some code changes and [...]

Interestingly, the Netflix queue sidebar feature I installed only yesterday has already ceased to function, so I’ve removed it from the templates for the time being. Rather than returning the information it was returning yesterday, now the script is giving me only a cryptic “Resource #88.” I think maybe Netflix got honked off [...]

Last night was my company’s Christmas party. I usually attend every year, although I am not really a party guy. (Okay, let’s face it. I just plain don’t “do” parties.) But we have a pretty small company and there are a number of people here I get along with pretty well, [...]

Egad! I’ve said “Christmas”! That means I’m being religiously insensitive to the needs of others, such as those who belong to the Church of the God of the Toilet Paper and People Who Worship Total and Utter Ignorance! But since the Oddball Update has never been about catering to the masses—I believe [...]