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Archive for April, 2006

Employment Woes

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life, Rants

Wednes­day morn­ing, my super­vi­sor pulled me aside to tell me since man­age­ment wants to go into beta just before I take 2 days of vaca­tion. And since one of those vaca­tion days con­flicts with a week long Microsoft train­ing course I was signed up for they are pulling me out of the class. I wasn’t […]

Tags: dinner, HAL, home, humour, office, problem, sleep, sound, vacation

Read more | Comments (1) | Apr 28, 2006

Daaaaang, that’s loaded!

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

Today, I have to travel to my company’s home office to teach a class. The day before I’m sup­posed to drive over I find I’ve got a voice mail. As I do 99.9999% of my job either via emails, IMs or F2F, this in itself was extremely odd. Then I lis­tened to the mes­sage and […]

Tags: coffee, driving, email, home, Love, offer, office, park, Travel

Read more | Comments (0) | Apr 26, 2006

Using my feed?

Posted by Mark | Filed under Software, Web Design

Just a quick note to all of you using my RSS feed. I’ve changed my Feed­Burner set­tings to splice in my book­marks on del.icio.us and my pho­tos on Flickr. This is some­thing of an exper­i­ment, so please do let me know what you think.

Tags: del.icio.us, Flickr, Photos

Read more | Comments (0) | Apr 25, 2006

Real Life Recap

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

I’ve not been post­ing any­thing for a while because… Well, I just have not felt like it which is not to say I haven’t had any­thing to talk about. Today, I decided to update the world at large about what I have been upto in my lit­tle slice of it. We sur­vived the tor­na­dos and hail […]

Tags: basement, family, Golf, home, Links, offer, office, park, radio, remodeling, strange, thanks, VW, Weather, weekend

Read more | Comments (1) | Apr 20, 2006

Ubuntu and the Crystal 4237B Soundchip

Posted by Mark | Filed under Computers, Software

For all you peo­ple searc­ing for more infor­ma­tion on get­ting the C4237B sound­chip work­ing under Ubuntu, here are the links to my pre­vi­ous posts on the sub­ject: ALSA & Crys­tal 4237B Revis­ited Con­fig­ure ALSA for Crys­tal 4237B Some other peo­ple out there in Inter­net land have reported the steps detailed in those posts as work­ing for […]

Tags: sound, ubuntu

Read more | Comments (0) | Apr 6, 2006