Not much updating going on here the last few days. I’ve been doing a bunch of things, but mainly coming to grips with where I’m at in my life right now and trying to decide which way I want to go now. I’m sure this whole process is something that everyone who gets laid off goes through after their layoff. I’ll be more active here this week as I ramp myself back up and begin looking into both contract work and full time jobs. First things first though, a revamped resume is job one for the early part of this week.
Joe Torre: “To me, the NY on our caps means more than baseball this year.”
They are playing “New York, New York” in the Bronx right now because the Yankees are going to their fourth straight World Series. Looking back, three weeks ago, no one expected them to be here, but they came through. That’s character.
When did blogdex redesign? The summaries are very helpful.
Yankees win 3-1 by a walkoff home run. Man, great baseball by both teams tonight. On a separate note, I can’t believe how humble these players are. Think about this, they have basically dominated the sport of baseball for the last five years. I don’t hear any of them, not a one, making any claims about how great their team is. They basically let their playing do the talking. Some others seem to feel like they can assign any negative emotion they want to the Yankees, but I haven’t seen anything that resembles what he describes in the dugout or in print. I haven’t missed a game yet. Get a grip ya sore loser. The Yankees have character, more than you are giving them credit for.
Yankees edge Mariners to take 2-0 ALCS lead. Works for me. Don’t believe the media’s attempts to now convince you that this series is all but over. The Mariners are a strong franchise, just like the Yankees, with character. It won’t be over until the last out.
ESPN.com has become “msn.espn.go.com” over the years. What’s next? “yahoo.msn.aol.cnn.time.espn.go.com”? Come on now people.
This article reports on some interesting developments in the whole title 9 debate that has raged seemingly forever. Seems that, by and large, the women who run these programs seem to not be very happy that men are invading their sport. If these women were men running, say men’s football programs at these schools, they would be looked down upon for trying to exclude an athlete based on their sex. I say to these people, you can’t have it both ways. You have to apply these rules equally, and if an athlete is better than another athlete, you must play them.
Brent’s really kicking butt over at mac.scripting.com. This is more interesting to me than it would have been a month ago. Mac OS x 10.1 has really brought me back over to the Mac platform full time. Still wishing for a few more apps though.
Yankees beat Mariners in Game One 4-2.. There is no doubt in my mind that this is going to be a great series. Two great teams with character. That’s something that the National League lacks these days. It’s certainly not that there aren’t players with character on the two National League clubs that remain, but just that it doesn’t seem like the teams themselves have character.
Mmmm cable. I haven’t had television for over a month. I mostly wanted to get it again now because of the baseball post-season. I was so happy that the Yankees won their first series against Oakland. Unlike many other Yankee fans these days it seems, I don’t take the post-season for granted. I was a Yankee fan through the very challenging eighties. Say what you will, there is no franchise in the history of organized sports that has a larger commitment to excellence than the Bronx Bombers. While other franchises may flirt with success, the Yanks have returned to the well over and over again. Now, in my opinion, that’s a philosphy. That’s one I’ve believed in for the twenty five years I have been a Yankee fan now, all my baseball life.
I’m waiting for AT&T Broadband to come and install cable. Conveniently, I didn’t have to take time off to wait due to my lack of a job. Needless to say, this whole waiting thing is getting a little old. I’m about two minutes away from the end of my “window”, and there is no sign of them yet. Of course, this is somewhat less frustrating than my current home Internet access situation. Bellsouth came out and turned my Earthlink DSL connection on over a month ago, but Earthlink has failed to deliver the equipment for that connection. So it sits there and I am constrained to a dialup connection. What in the world happened to customer service?
I have a winner in the contest. The answer was 33.
Contest: If I were a Hobbit, I would be an adult today. How old am I? The prize is yet to be determined, but will be something good. (The two people who I tried this out on are not eligible to win, so Nathan and Sara please do not respond.)
Always a few months behind the curve, I joined the ranks of the laid off this morning. I am now considering my options and checking my financial situation. This is not an amicable situation, but I’ll get into that later. The entire Atlanta office of my company is now kaput.
I had a great weekend away from my keyboard. It’s incredible how many leaves the Pecan tree in my backyard is dropping. I think it may be having a contest with the Pecan tree in my front yard to see who can drop the most leaves in the shortest amount of time. I received, as an early birthday present, a George Foreman Lean Mean Grilling Machine. I’m going to fire that baby up tonight. Well, back to workish activities.
Dan Bricklin: Copy Protection Robs The Future
NY Times: Interactive Map of the targets hit in Afghanistan on October 7th and 8th.
So I just went out to lunch with some people who thought, for some reason, that it would be neat if I could mention the fact that we had lunch on my Web site. Can you imagine that?
FBI Page Detailing Hijackers activities before attack. I had missed this, as I’m sure I’ve missed a lot of things in the sea of information we are all swimming in.
Apple: Perl on Mac OS X
phpGroupWare is a multi-user web-based groupware suite written in PHP.
Dave says: “Of course the American League is not a “real” league.”
hehe. Why don't you come talk to me about your "league" when your team has won half the World Series that mine has? Oh, perhaps it is difficult to get a good perspective when your team has only been around since 1959? When your team has been around for another 56 years you might have the perspective to understand what a real league is. Heh.