Day: 23 July 2003

The Best News Of The Summer!

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And most importantly the AC in my new apartment actually works. I am not hot most of the time like I was at the old place. Knock on wood. I leave the living room one on during the day, and the bed room one on at night and the place is perfect. I like it nice when I get home so I don’t mind paying to leave the 1 unit on when I am not home.

Now all they have to do is get the AC to work at my office. I bug Dan about it all the time, but so does everyone else. I know he hates it but whenever our website goes down he bugs me even though I don’t control everything about it. It is a vicious circle.

Wireless Woes

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Still having AT&T wireless issues. They want me to get a new SIM card. So I went to the store. They were out. How they can sell phones without the card, I have no idea. I guess they use extra ones for replacements. I called customer care again and they are sending one, after I argued with them on why I won’t be charged $25.00 to get one. Why a SIM card will cause the dam phone not to work in my apartment is beyond me, but weirder things have happened.

Howard is looking to see if he has his old Treo 180 around that I can borrow for a bit. I am debating on if I want to get a Treo again. Now I am thinking if I can use his black and white 180, and live with it I may just get one of those till november and get the new Treo 600 when it comes out. That will save me from buying the color model that is like $300 and then want to upgrade it 3 months later. The black and white Treo 180 goes for like $130 on ebay. That is allot cheaper. I will see. If he doen’t have it I may just get it and take the risk on the $130.

On the plus side my new T-40 is great. And I got my cannon scanner to work with Mac OS 10.2 without a problem.

Cute Morgan

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I got home just in time to get a call from my sister about going to dinner with her and my parents. We went to the local deli. The highlight was playing with my niece Morgan. She is so cute. I threw someone out of my office today who commented on my computer background by saying “oh a cute boy”. The pink didn’t give away she was a girl, I don’t know what to say.

My family ended up at my place since my sister needed to feed the baby before she drove home. Morgan was not in any mood to wait to eat. My parents are still using my place to shower while they redecorate. I showed my mom how to use Tivo tonight. That means it will be all screwed up tomorrow when I get home.

Queue This

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So the more I work in the technology field, the more I realize what I don’t know. I learned about a totally new type of product last night. Now I need to become an expert in how it is tied into Windows 2000 Active Directory. The product is MSMQ or Microsoft something or other messaging queue. it is really interesting stuff, but I never dealt with it before. This is one of the many new projects I am learning about.

I am knee deep in setup stuff for our new Kingston office. I have the Active Directory model set. Now I have to build it. I ordered the first batch of 25 desktops today. They wont ship till August but we locked the price and model in. We are waiting on some better deals for flat panels before we order them.

Our cable guy’s finally called us back today. Joe is going to kingston on thursday to meet with them and make sure the plan is set and the work begins and finishes on time. I am still waiting for an install date on our long distance T-1’s. We keep getting the run around from our carrier. I am freaking out that the LEC verizon goes on strike in August. And yes, they will strike. both sides of that argument are no where near an agreement. That will get messy.