Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all

I find myself in downtown Philadelphia, staring at the window of the Cathedral-Basilica of Sts. Peter & Paul. I am a long way from my hometown, a smallish suburb of Chicago, feeling at odds with Philadelphia’s large stature—the sixth most populous city in the entire United States—and my own touristy insignificance. I took a picture [...]

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§3702 · March 22, 2009 · 3 comments · Tags: , ,


It’s more than halfway through January, and I’ve made pitifully few posts. I’ve only one book in my meme so far (though, in my defense, I’m currently reading five books, with a sixth to be added soon). It’s a cop-out, I realize, but I’ve been terribly busy lately. This previous week was my fiance’s last [...]

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§3552 · January 19, 2009 · 5 comments · Tags: , , , ,


I’ll be at the JA-SIG fall conference from tonight until Wednesday evening. Content may follow.

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§2738 · October 5, 2008 · 1 comment · Tags: , ,


Last year, I moved our small programming department from using JDeveloper and editing shared files directly on a network drive to using Netbeans 6.x and a proper version control system (Subversion). After the initial learning curve, this has all been going swimmingly. I merged my first development branch into the trunk yesterday, and this branch [...]

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§2692 · September 22, 2008 · 3 comments · Tags: , , , , , , ,


This entry pertains to work done in the context of my employment. Please remember, however, that any opinions expressed on this blog do not necessarily reflect those of my employer or co-workers. The Problem Admissions needed help. They had been moved from their former product, Exeter, to Banner’s native admissions module. But Banner’s interface stinks, [...]

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§2354 · September 11, 2008 · (No comments) · Tags: , , , , , , ,


I don’t usually talk about work on this blog, simply because I’ve read enough horror stories about blogging work matters to know how badly it ends. Granted, if I were to blog about my job, it would mostly consist of technology bits, but it’s still one of those grey areas I avoid out of propriety. [...]

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§1941 · December 8, 2007 · 8 comments · Tags: , , , , , , ,