So I don’t really have anything major to say but I really just wanted to post via Rich’s new laptop with the wireless network. It’s really quite cool to be able to sit on the couch with no cables and surf the web and add to the useless noise of the internet 🙂

Which reminds me. There’s actually talk that google is going to try and remove weblogs from the main search area and give them their own tab much like Usenet and news. Personally I think that it’s a great idea because it’ll help get the signal to noise ratio down on google searches. Where instead of the first handfull of results can now be Joe Schmoe and Friends weblogs since they all link to each other we might actually get the original article/whitepaper/study etc. as the first result. Wouldn’t that be nice?

so it’s been a week since my interview… it went really badly and I know it… I know that I could have done everything that they were looking for and more but I just blew the interview….

well well well now that my hosting provider has finally gotten some (note that the time is stll off by something like 14 hours that I can’t adjust for) of the problems fixed from the last couple of days including ftp being down for quite a few hours yesterday and PHP going down today (which I honestly didn’t know that anyone could do but that’s not here nor there)…

anyway there’s still a few things that I’d like to fix before I call this “done” including some cool stylesheet switching and some more cleanup of the general layout.

Well ok since I said that I’d get this done quite a while ago I’m going to put something new out there for ya all to play with… this is my new web log software ‘MovableType’. Although I did really like greymatter it had enough little things that bothered me (like the fact that the developer stopped supporting it and improving it) that I thought that it was time for me to switch to something newer and better… and since I’ve been having issues getting this to fit in with my new web design I’ve decided that I’m going to try and switch things a couple of pieces at a time until I get it how I want it instead of all at once like I attempted before.

so my redesign is almost done… doing things the right way only took me a couple of hours. I guess that teaches me a lesson now doesn’t it.

Not that this affects anyone in the least but I can’t put this site into production yet since my FTP server is down 🙁

So there’s going to be some more changes happening around here in the coming days… I really want these pages to validate properly with the w3c.org standards (the group that attempts to make the internet all run correctly for everyone despite Microsoft’s wishes) so I don’t know if the site will render correctly in IE for much longer but hopefully whenever IE 7 comes out it’s more standards complient and will play nicely with my website again 🙂

Until nexttime this is Chris trying to convince everyone he knows to run Mozilla (or at least Netscape 7).

So I’ve been bored at work and just don’t feel like working on the Northing.org site for a bit so I’ve decided that it’s time for my personal website to get a facelift and the project has now started 🙂

So I’ve been working on learning Cascading Style Sheets so that I can change the way my entire site looks at the drop of a hat and do things like allow visitors to chose the way that they want to see the page and best of all it helps make my site more accessable because I’m not using Tables (ok I’m not using tables but I think my weblog software still does some tabling) so if someone accesses the site with a screen reader for the blind it is all nice and clean for them 🙂

There are still some bugs to be worked out for example the navigation menu should be a popout menu but right now I can’t get it working correctly I’ll be re-doing my other pages to match the new look of the main page and to support CSS during the next week or so.

Just remember things will change, things will break, it’ll probably be really butt ugly sometimes too 🙂

I’d love to hear people’s input on the new look.

So I’m at work…. This hospital has a computer ever 3.5 feet or so and each of them seems to have some sort of printer…. how is it that nothing is broken in the entire damn place? I am so bored and I’ve spent so much time looking at a computer screen under these nasty florecence lights that my eyes are ready to pop out of my head….

So I discoverd somethign last night…. Calvin was a Blogger…

“Who wouldn’t be interested in everything we do?!” –Calvin to Hobbes 🙂

So here I am sitting at Beth’s and I noticed that she had my webpage setup as her homepage so that just drove me to actually do another post since now I know that someone other than me sees it on a regular basis.

So it’s almost January. I’m picking up Sam at the airport tomorrow (and Beth is coming too). Looks like a trip to the science museum is on for the First of the year… should be a blast… I love the science museum!!

I’m really not happy with my hosting provider I think I’m going to go out and replace them. I just hope that I can find something as cheap as what I have now and still get all the cool features that I do get.

OK I think that there was something else that I was going to say but I don’t remember what it was so I’m just going to stop writing now…:-)

P.S. I just remembered…. so as for working plans have changed… I’m no longer going to do the project that I thought I was (it never was setting up the Northfield Hospital it was in fact setting up 3000 new computers throughout the Allina System) and instead I’m going to be at Abbot Northwestern in Minneapolis taking the place of one of their Hardware tech guys while he goes out and supervises the installs. So I get to be the Printer and PC hardware fixer at one of the largest hospitals in Minneapolis 🙂

So I could have posted this a while ago but I just didn’t get around to it. I finally found a job at least for a bit. It doesn’t start until January 6th and it only goes through the end of March but at least it’s something…. it’s actually with a placement firm in Minneapolis but the interesting thing is that I’ve been placed with Allina Medical… who happens to be opening a new hospital in *gasp* Northfield due to open in April… so although they haven’t told me for sure yet I’m pretty sure that I get to commute to Northfield now that I moved away from there… isn’t that just usual luck….