Wednesday, December 1, 2004

Lusting for Technology

One side effect of the holiday season for me is the chance to lust after some of the new gadgets that are in the stores. The one thing that has been a huge disappointment is the new Palm T5 which was released in late October. My PDA (Palm M505) is reaching the end of it's functional life and I was hoping the new model from Palm would be on my list. Not a chance; no Wi-Fi and no OS 6. Hope the next device has what I want or I may have to switch to PPC. But it's probably just as well, I really don't want to be spending that much on myself right now.

I have a presentation for my new assignment due on Thursday. Got it finished today and am having a co-worker look it over. I am pretty happy with it; I think it clearly explains the reasoning behind my recommendations. It gets a final review on Friday so we shall see. I am still working with InfoPath and SQL Reporting services. I believe that both will be picked for this project and I want to be fairly competent in both.

Got a call today from one of my old client contacts. J. calls every few months to catch up and bounce a technical question or two off me. I really enjoy talking with her; she is one of the nicest people that I have been fortunate to meet. She always brightens up my day.

Made some updates to the Boy Scout troop web site that I support. I have three sons in scouting and the site is one way for me to give a little back. I converted the site to .NET over the summer; I am really pretty please how it turned out. I am in the process of putting together the media shows in the gallery section. It takes a bit but I think the results are pretty good.

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