Job Searching

Well now that September is here, I am kicking my job search into high gear. Things are going pretty well though it is clear that the market is tight right now. The interesting thing is that I just installed Act!. I find the system pretty good, but not great. I am using the old version and am really curious to see how much better the new version is. I have not bothered to upgrade yet and will provide an update when I upgrade to the new version.

More job thoughts

I had lunch today with my classmate Andy R. It was good chatting with hom and I was happy to learn that he recently got a job….Go Andy! We also chatted about a business idea of mine. I think that I need to do some market research to study whether this job idea would really work, but I am intrigued. The trouble is that it is a big risk to start a company and I just have to make sure that I have the stomach for it.

Weblog Design

Well I keep changing the design of my blog. I became really sick of the design that I just had because I thought that the text was too small and that the links were too hard to see. I returned to the default which I like much better. I am also slogging through building my own design. It is coming along well, but a bit slowly because I am not all the familiar with CSS which MT seems to use extensively. I hopefully should have something up in the next few weeks.

Not Many Updates as of late

Sorry,
I have not been updating this blog as much as I would like as of late. Anyway, I have been focusing as of late on archiving applications for digital photography. I want an efficient application that copies the actual jpg files and uses html and has the ability to display a slide show. Most apps use a proprietary .exe file to run the slideshow, this is fun, but I am worried that some day the app won’t run on my computer (Remember DOS Apps?) and I won’t be able to access the pictures. My current strategy is to autorun an HTML file which links to the .exe slideshow(s) and also to the actual jpeg files burned on the CD.

I just purchased a great slideshow app. It uses the whole proprietary .exe thing, but it is small and powerful. It is called Picture to Exe and you can find it here.

Videogames

I have grown a bit fed up with my XBox as of late. There are just not that many good games out for the system right now. HALO is still by far the best IMO, but I am sick of the single player action since I finished the game. Come on MS, I want some more games! On the bright side, my GameCube simply rocks in the single player area. Earlier in the summer, I played and finished Resident Evil. It was a great game with fantastic graphics. I am now focused on Eternal Darkness. Once more this is just a great game. You play as a ton of different characters in various centuries. Very cool and ver diverse environments. I have to finish this one.