Posted Monday, October 12, 2009 at 4:19 pm | Comments Off
Tomorrow will be 2 months since my last day of work on my last contract job (the one that the company ended early [for financial reasons]). As I mentioned a few days ago, there haven’t been all that many opportunities around the Fargo area … at least not opportunities that have peaked my interest. A couple of hours after I posted that entry I received an email from a company that I had applied […]
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Posted Thursday, October 8, 2009 at 1:30 pm | Comments Off
Some time during junior high and high school (I believe it was when I was in the 7th grade) I made a choice to pursue a career in weather. I honestly don’t remember what spawned that choice. It might have been a family trip to southern Minnesota where we were chased by tornadoes almost the entire way down. I remember tornado sirens going off as we would pass through towns, and when we made a […]
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Posted Friday, May 15, 2009 at 7:04 pm | Comments Off
… at my new job. Well, it was only 3 days, but
So far so good. And I like it. It’s a small office, I think there are 9 of us total, including me (the IT department is only 3, including me). The company has offices in other locations, so it’s not a small company.
I’ve even gotten to do actual work already. I’ve made some updates to the websites and put together an email […]
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Posted Tuesday, April 28, 2009 at 12:15 pm | Comments Off
While I wait to hear back from the job opportunity I interviewed for last week and the job opportunity I applied for yesterday, I need a project to keep me occupied. I only really have one idea for what that project should be. I’ve already done something similar with this idea, but I thought I would take it a step further this time around.
What is the idea? Well, it’s a weather widget. Yes, there […]
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Posted Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 8:14 pm | Comments Off
As I mentioned earlier today, I’ve been learning about jQuery at work during my spare time. I read some documentation on the jQuery website and went through some tutorials both on that site and on others. I’ve learned quite a bit since I started.
I wanted to share something that I thought was pretty cool. If nothing else, I wanted to save it for later reference for myself. And if someone else finds it […]
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