Sruli's blog

I guess I'm sure to update this once in a while because sometimes I forget to bring a book with me on the bus. That doesn't mean nothing ever happens, just that when things *do* happen I am usually too busy to take note of them here and by the time things calm down enough I don't remember (or care?) enough to blog them. Actually I have more to say now that I am here, but it deserves a separate entry. Meanwhile the search goes on for an affordable but useful digital camera for Leah and ditto MP3 player for Akiva. I have leads on both, let's see what develops. And my nephew still hasn't managed to visit, so I still can't comment on the Linksys wireless access signal booster as I had hoped to. I met with a potential new client for web hosting. He's going to need a small site but a big database and a nice chunk of bandwidth. I'm going to have to develop a special package for him but it's probably worth it for exposure. Business has been slow, and it ...

I really should update this thing once in a while or give it up altogether. But b"H life has been busy. Between the 9-5 and the evening/other work, plus a family life, things are kind of crowded. I know, excuses, excuses. But the other factor is that honestly, other than work and day-to-day living, not a lot has been happening. I've been getting settled in to the (still) new 9-5 (hah) job. I've been making long term plans to make life easier for Tzirel when she takes over more of the other business. Both are sort of fun. In my day job, I'm starting to see how I will fit in long term. Rather than being involved at this point in new development, I'm more on the operations/client side, responsible for cleaning up mistakes made, whether by us or by the clients, gathering information for reporting to the client, and in general being responsive to short term requests. The whole thing is kind of exciting. I can see where I will be an important part of the team as...

Well, the hurricane means we can't connect to the VPN in Florida today. Or probably tomorrow, for that matter. Let's hope that I can be productive here via locally copied data and schema which may be a bit out of date. I brought my own pepper shaker today! Yay! Oh, and by the way: the XP SP2 installation doesn't seem to have hosed my home PC. The downstairs PC and my PC now have it. Interestingly, the service pack seems to have installed some kind of firewall on the as yet defenseless downstairs PC, and complained that it doesn't have a virus scanner. On my desk upstairs, it seems to know that I have Zone Alarm Pro and PC-Cillin, and it's leaving me alone.

I've decided to load XP SP2... here goes nothing.