MultiLJ & other stuff
Jun. 26th, 2008 06:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robotech_masterI"m trying out a new LJ client, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
multilj. Too early to tell how well I'll like it, but it looks interesting. Although, what is it with software installers that always want to put their programs in c:\Program Files\Software Company Name\Program Name? Why would I even care what the name of the software company is, and how, upon navigating to the Program Files directory, would I be able to find the app I'm looking for if all I have to go on is its software company name? Big software conglomerates like Adobe or Microsoft, I could see, but I'm not even going to remember who programmed MultiLJ.
Work is going—all right, I guess. Except I'm a little worried. One of the staff is relocating, and I'm expected to take on his duties, which include some technical stuff that I don't know if I can get down. Microsoft SQL 2005 Reporting Service, for one thing. They gave me a book to read to learn from, but it's slow going. I keep getting distracted by the allure of the Internets, and this bothers me a lot. I'd really like to take some kind of class in this, I think I would learn it better that way, but I doubt I'm going to be able to convince work to shell out hundreds of bucks for one, or wait the time it would take me to learn it.
Perhaps as a result of this, I've not been sleeping very well again lately. I go to bed at a time that would get me sufficient sleep if I woke up when my alarm clock went off—but instead I consistently wake up two hours early. I'm not sure what I can do about that. Maybe start going to bed two hours earlier. :P
Oh, and I'm scheduled for a root canal today. Joy and rapture.
In happier news, I recently discovered that "Misfits," the Liaden-universe story published in the December, 2007 issue of Jim Baen's Universe, happens to be available on-line for free as a Webscription sample chapter for the magazine back-issue. It's always good to find more Liaden stuff I haven't read.
multilj. Too early to tell how well I'll like it, but it looks interesting. Although, what is it with software installers that always want to put their programs in c:\Program Files\Software Company Name\Program Name? Why would I even care what the name of the software company is, and how, upon navigating to the Program Files directory, would I be able to find the app I'm looking for if all I have to go on is its software company name? Big software conglomerates like Adobe or Microsoft, I could see, but I'm not even going to remember who programmed MultiLJ.Work is going—all right, I guess. Except I'm a little worried. One of the staff is relocating, and I'm expected to take on his duties, which include some technical stuff that I don't know if I can get down. Microsoft SQL 2005 Reporting Service, for one thing. They gave me a book to read to learn from, but it's slow going. I keep getting distracted by the allure of the Internets, and this bothers me a lot. I'd really like to take some kind of class in this, I think I would learn it better that way, but I doubt I'm going to be able to convince work to shell out hundreds of bucks for one, or wait the time it would take me to learn it.
Perhaps as a result of this, I've not been sleeping very well again lately. I go to bed at a time that would get me sufficient sleep if I woke up when my alarm clock went off—but instead I consistently wake up two hours early. I'm not sure what I can do about that. Maybe start going to bed two hours earlier. :P
Oh, and I'm scheduled for a root canal today. Joy and rapture.
In happier news, I recently discovered that "Misfits," the Liaden-universe story published in the December, 2007 issue of Jim Baen's Universe, happens to be available on-line for free as a Webscription sample chapter for the magazine back-issue. It's always good to find more Liaden stuff I haven't read.
