Pete's Log: Perk; copy-n-paste; acquisitions; comcast sucks
Entry #1380, (Life in General)(posted when I was 26 years old.)
I'm beginning to really hate the design of my log webpage. I need to do something about it.
Perk came to visit! Well, he came to Baltimore for a conference, so I drove over there to see him. We went to the National Aquarium at the Inner Harbor and saw a large number of fishies. And we saw the dolphin show. One of the dolphins was pregnant. Perk's attempts to induce labor were not successful. Afterwards, we met up with Dave Rink who was also in Baltimore for the same conference and went to some crab place he found on the internet. It was supposed to have the best crab cakes in Baltimore. I ate pasta.
I was at an outlet of one of the large bookseller chains the other day, looking for books on Visibroker or CORBA. They had none. I'm not really surprised. But since I was just about to finish Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver, I decided to check if they had the second volume of that trilogy. They did, but I only saw the hardcover, and I prefer paperback. So I went up to the little find-it-yourself computer and noticed that whoever had previously used it had stopped typing in mid-title. It was obvious from the context the next letter in the abandoned title was an 'n'. I tried to type in my title, "The Confusion" and quickly realized the 'n' key on the keyboard didn't work. But I found an 'n' somewhere on the page text and ctrl-c, ctrl-v did the trick for me. I feel ever so clever.
CA just announced that they will buy Niku Corp. So I guess we won't be the new guys for very long at all.
Comcast high speed internet is really disappointing me of late. I just wanted to let that be known.