Most of today was spent working on the VB.net project from hell. A greatly amusing rant on why .net sucks, how it’s stupid, and what people should do with it was made by Yohimbe. I still haven’t found two people who can completely agree on just what .net really is. Anyway, lots of work, with Brad doing most of the looking, as he is the one who seems to have the most percentage of clue for this stuff. I did a lot of looking, and listening to cries of “what the hell did he do here… oh, I see… argh! why did he do that!” In the end was pizza, and some work was accomplished.
Tomorrow I am off to the gym for my early morning run, and then to a self employment seminar/information session at the Mission community futures. I think that that is the place where you find out if you can make money while on EI. Now I just need to get my business plan going. Wish Openoffice would work nicely for me… it seems to like to get to the point of showing the main window, then crashing. Bah, bah bah. Of course, now that I type that and run it under a debugger, it works. Slow as hell, but not crashing.
After I get back from the self employment thing I’m going to start researching the heck out of the company I’ll be interviewing with on Thursday, and the technologies that they use (or the best I can figure anyway). I really don’t want to get flown out there and then make an ass of myself ya know?
One of the smarter things I’ve done lately is pick myself up a little two console KVM switchbox. This allows me to run two computers off of one set of Keyboard, Video, and Mouse. Meaning I gain back the lost deskspace from my second box, use my nice big monitor and not my spare 15″, and have my nice keyboard and mouse when using either box. Especially seeing as working with Visual Studio .NET pretty much requires > 1024×768 resolution.
Oh, and the gentoo thing, it does seem like there is some improvement in speed. Not huge, but noticable in some cases, which is cool. The only thing they are really suffering from (IMHO) is an ebuild of an XFT enabled mozilla. So I’ve been bombarding one of their developers with links to patches, hoping that they’ll appease me 🙂