testing the multithreading–so UI doesn’t hang while updating a blog entry. what’s the deal with setting the category though…i do so, and when i go to edit my entry, the category is set, but it’s not set when posting. i need to look into that.

i’m an official geek. ;)

on think geek

It’s been a good minute since I’ve posted more than a blurb lately. It’s been a busy time for me, although I’m currently at vacation in beautiful (and currently overcast and cold) New Hampshire. What an interesting area. Not since eau claire, WI, have i just really *known* i was a minority…although as we spent a little time in Watertown and Lynn, I was reassured that blacks do exist in New England. :)

What’s been going on? One pleasant surprise was my first BMI royalty check:

i have a song on one of my albums, worshipmusic called “Praise”, has a song on it that was picked up (via raw42.com) sometime last year. i had all but forgotten about it, hearing that it usually takes “forever” to see your check…well forever came and the check reminded me that my song had played on MTV’s “the real world” (over 1 minute worth, even…woo! :) Episode 1222. long live syndication on this episode! :D good to hear praise on MTV. ;)

what else? check my business site for a blurb, but i’ve been doing a grip of .NET development, learning about the state of things in the MS world, etc. and am impressed. I was even a Unix zealot back in the day (although nowadays i “only” prefer Linux over others :). Of course the mono project is aiming to bring .NET to the linux platform as well, which is a bonus. I think it’s a solid concept (CLR) and the spec is submitted as a standard, so that matters a grip. there was some cat yakking about how M$ could pull the plug and some other stuff that really didn’t make logical sense to me–M$’s implementation is NOT what counts here. who cares if they go on their own undocumented way. the “community” will have the public specification to work with. of course i’m no lawyer so i’m far from clueful on this fully, but i did not realize that you could try to patent something that you’ve submitted as a specification for a standard…it just doesn’t sound correct (as in even legally doable). i’ll have to look it up more–what ECMA standards are in use that are actually patented, and we can’t implement without paying a license?

oh yeah back to .NET. the project i’m working on is named Mmemento. you know, like the flick.

grr — comment issues — i have a bunch in the “queue”, that haven’t shown up on the site. i’m on vacation, but hopefully tonite i can take a look at it, once our hosts get the wireless network going that we’re about to go out and buy the equipment for. :)

sit tight, Vikas ;)

j.

Microsoft granted Patent on Very Ubiquitous and OBVIOUS concept. for an example, see the “style selecta” on the left side of this page.

i’ve had it with the USPTO.

j.

My daughter always comes up with some kind of catch phrase of the moment. when she was three, she would always say “you bah jiggy…i just jokeeeng!” everything she was just joking about! now it’s “whatever, nothing”…if she says something and i don’t understand her:

me: what did you say?

her: nothing, what-ever

my favorite of the moment is that she’ll talk about something, and you can tell if she thinks she’s gonna get a “what in the world are you talking about” from me because she’ll quickly stop herself in mid-sentence and say “what, am i cwazy?”

it’s hilarious, trust me. always entertaining to hear a four year old question her sanity.

j.