Today is one of the happiest days of my life. I finally got my new computer. Here is a quick break down of the specifications:

• AMD Athlon 64 X2 3600
• 256M Radeon X1300PRO GDDR2 PCI Express x16 Video Card
• KWORLD PCI Interface TV Tuner Card
• 1 GB DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Memory
• LITE-ON 18X DVD±R DVD Burner
• Hanns·G Black 19? 5ms Widescreen LCD Monitor
• 250 GB SATA Hard Drive + Plus one of my old 120 GB IDE Hard Drives
• Some cheap Creative Labs Speakers (In a noise free apartment complex)

Now I would love to tell you guys to look forward to a lot of new posts, but honestly I’m going to be wrapped up in this for a while. I got a lot of new games to play and a lot of movies to watch on my wide screen monitor :). So, I’ll be with you guys in a couple days, lol.

Just kidding. I haven’t been able to post lately because I sold my old computer and I didn’t want to risk blogging at work. But it’s all good now. I’m back.

Popularity: 3%

Share This

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my Full RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

I know a lot of you might be wondering what’s going on, but once again we’re gonna have to take a short break. I recently sold off my old computer so right now I’m paying for internet access and I don’t have a computer. OK, I’m not a total idiot. I did make a purchase recently. I ordered a bunch of computer parts, since I’m building the new one. Here’s the problem. Like an idiot, I forgot to get a heat sink and a fan for my CPU. So I’m waiting for these to arrive in the mail. It should be some time next week though. But this is where I am. The only other place I have internet access is of course at work, but seeing as I just started this job, I’m not trying to get yelled at so soon. So I guess it’s see you guys next week.

Popularity: 4%

Share This

It’s been a long time but I finally decided to breathe some life back into Day In The Life of Baz. It’s been a while since I touched anything on that blog. With the whole graduation thing and the job hut and the starting a new job and moving, I’ve just been a bit overwhelmed lately. Some say welcome back to: Day In The Life of Baz.

Popularity: 4%

Share This

Introduction

OK, now I did promise you some information about my new job, so here goes. First off we need a little background information.

How It All Started

Sometime back in October of 2006, during my last semester of school, a Software company came to my school to recruit programmers. They are situated in Texas and they provide a Software Package for companies in Texas. They have about 85% of the market cornered, so business is really good. Business is so good that they got a new client in the state of Washington. For this client, however, they were doing a complete rewrite of their software from Visual C++ 6.0 (with all that MFC stuff) to a .NET product written in C#. So they were looking for programmers to work on the new stuff. So they were going from university to university looking for some programmers to handle the new contract.

Share This

The day has finally come. Well, it’s tomorrow, but you know what I mean. I am done, done, done, done, done! Words cannot express the joy and elation I feel right now. Throughout the semester I knew this day was coming. I mean, how could I not graduate. But there were just things that made it rather difficult to be happy about. Every time I mention graduation to someone we have the same conversation:

• Person: So you’re graduating in December?
• Me: Yep.
• Person: So you must be really excited, huh?
• Me: I guess so.
• Person: So what are you going to do afterwards?
• Me (Thinking): How the hell should I know? Do you have a rich uncle that owns a company and is willing to give me a job? Because I sure haven’t been successful on the millions of interviews I’ve gone to. Shoot, I guess I’m going to end up working in the mall selling women’s shoes or something.
• Me (Actual response): I’m not sure. I guess try to find a job.

Popularity: 4%

Share This

OK, So I’ve just gotten done with my Algebraic Structures (Part 1) final exam. Yes, Part 1. It was supposedly designed to help us in that the in-class portion does not contain any proofs. The result is instead of having one normal sized test taking up just 2 hours, we have one in-class portion that was really difficult and took one and a half hours; and one take-home portion that is full of proofs that is going to take about eight hours. Yaaaaayyy. That’s what I always wanted.

Tomorrow I have Contemporary Programming Languages and I need to hand up my Numerical Analysis take home exam. That should be simple enough. On Wednesday I have to hand up Part 2 of Algebraic Structures and then that’s it. Did you hear me? That’s it. Well, that is after I graduate on Saturday. And I’ll be done with school for a while; a very long while. After this I have about one month before work starts. Yes, that’s a whole other story on it’s own, I got a JOB. I got to move and all that stuff. But hey, I’m just so psyched about finishing with school that I can barely contain myself. Again, this is a 10 minute break from my studies and I got to get back to it. I don’t want my GPA to take any other unnecessary dips before I’m all done. Rumor has it I’ll be graduating with honors. Let’s keep our fingers crossed.

Share This

OK, so things have been a little bit hectic so I haven’t gotten around to posting for a while. Here is a basic run down of what has been going on so far (much more detail to come later):

• Finals start today. Yes, this struggling college student is about to go into finals week and obviously I’m going a bit crazy.
• We’ve had end of semester project dues. One project, Software Engineering, was proving to be a major pain. Not the project itself, but the process by which it was to be delivered. Let’s just say, this whole “group work” thing isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
• I’ll also be graduating. Yep, it’s finally over. In one week I’ll be putting on that gown and walking through those doors. Wait a minute, where’s my gown. Whoops, mental note: “Need to check on gown at the bookstore”. We’ve been having graduation practice and all this good stuff.

So basically, I’m about ready to pull my hair out from the roots. But I’m trying my best to hold on to what little sanity I have left. Things should be back in full swing on Thursday.

Popularity: 4%

Share This

I’ve sort of been fighting it for a while now. I must say I’ve been stuck in the past and I apologize for that. I was stuck in the whole “It’s gotta be less that 800 pixels” things. That’s just a basic rule of accessibility, which I’ve carried from years ago. Back them a significant number of Internet surfers still had relatively small monitors and used the 800×600 resolution. Therefore, if you wanted your content accessible to the highest majority of visitors you had to ensure that your site can be viewed relatively well in at least 800 pixels. Although the number of visitors using this resolution was in the minority, it was still not small enough to ignore.

Now comes another problem. Rather a solution that causes a problem. Most people fixed this resolution issue by slapping on a fixed layout. Now fixed layouts have their pros and cons. The pros are, you know exactly how it will look every time. You know where every thing will be on the website. One major con, I experienced at a friend’s house. He had just gotten a brand new 21″ flat panel monitor and everything looked so crisp. After a couple hours of playing, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory we were just browsing the Internet and I just asked him to check out my latest post at the time. When he did I was horrified. My beautiful fixed width 787 pixel layout, which looks just brilliant on my 17″ at home, still looked brilliant here, but it was so bloody small. I mean the thing was tiny and scrolling took forever. Yeah, we would have had to scroll a lot on a smaller monitor but since we have this huge one, why should we. There was just so much wasted screen space it annoyed me. You could almost fit a whole other site right next to mine.

Popularity: 4%

Share This