The Random Thoughts of GeniusMusing

The joy and fun of waiting on support As I write this, my work is more or less finished on my end for about a week now and while I have added my files to their internal site and most of it seems to be working some of their server software needs to be brought to current versions and a reboot to continue. While I know their sysadmin very well, they also use an outside service for most of the lower level support which [...] Read more

Holidays have gotten out of hand. According to the Holiday Calendar site, on April 3rd, there are five holidays. They are: National Film Score Day National Tweed Day National Chocolate Mousse Day National Find a Rainbow Day National Love Our Children Day Looking at then by month, last month was the high for the year at 477 with 192 this month. The total for the year is 2520 "holidays" around the world. Surprisingly, [...] Read more

That moment you realize it is going to work So I have been working on a spec project since early February, averaging about seven hours a day, seven days a week. At some point in the last two weeks I realized two things, one, I done screwed up and didn't think through the back end of this project and had to do almost a complete re-write of the back end with about 70% of the code done. I also had two presentations to a [...] Read more

Once again we are moving the clocks because this is one of those things that we just always do. You would thing by now that technology would be able to adjust the time on things so I don't have to change the time on the things that are not "smart", like the oven, microwave and the clock by my bed. You would think that all the hours saved between 14 March 2021 and 7 November 2021 (238 in total at least in the US) that I [...] Read more

During the past nine days I have been working on a new spec project that has pretty much taken all my working time. While I know enough of different programming languages to at least get an idea of what they are trying to do, there are only a few I really know well. PHP is getting to be one of them. In nine days, 55 files in 20 folders, just over 2000 lines of code that is a mix of PHP, HTML, CSS and a few INI files, not [...] Read more