Raven's Journal

Finishing up my lunch right now.  We had a mini discussion on the meaning of "pufta".  It's British slang according to the Urban dictionary.  So if you say "Richard aka Evan is a pufta" - I apparently called him gay but in a not so kind fashion.

I picked up the Amazon package from the leasing office this morning.  I also dropped off the move in exception list. 

I have been rathe rbusy this morning.  I am working with another programmer on a project.

After work, I plan on getting some house work done.  Take out the garbage, run the dishwasher and do some laundry.  I will change the cats' litter boxes as well.

I woke up this morning with pain. My shoulder is really bad this morning. My shoulder hurt when I went to bed last night, but this morning (after 8 hours on an air mattress) it was really, really bad.

I have to work on a project this morning. We have something we need to finish by the end of the week.

I worked out yesterday and my shoulder is feeling a bit odd.  It's felt worse before, but it feels a bit stiff today.

Luke and I talked last night through AIM.  That was nice.  I really like the video / audio chat feature.

I have to spend today through Friday, learning an existing project.

This should be a relatively quiet week.  At least I hope so.

I think I will work out in some way after work.  I'm leaning toward swimming in the lap pool.  It's nice to get some variety in work outs.

I brought one of my nicer lunches for the week with me today.  I figured I would need it considering how *boring* the day would be.

I sort of slept last night.  I know I will sleep better tonight.  Having the cats around really helped last night.  When I woke up, all three cats were aslept on the air mattress.  It also was a bit cold in the apartment so all three of them were cuddling with me.

They were a bit upset this morning that Luke wasn't home.  I gave them breakfast and fresh water.  I decided to give them wet food tonight.  I figured they would need it after their first full day without Luke home.

Luke and I talked on AIM last night using audio / video chat.  SInce he doesn't have a web cam, he could see me but I couldn't see him.  The cats kept walking in front of the web cam as well.  :)

One of my bosses will be out of the office starting tomorrow for the rest of week.  That always makes work interesting.

After work today, I'm going to work out, do a bit of housework (litter, laundry, etc...), get a shower, make dinner and get online.

Well the insurance agent got back to me about the two apartments.  Our current renter's policy covers moves up to 30 days.  So no changes need to made with that.  The agent is changing the address for all policies on July 1st.  One less item to cross off my moving list.

I am trying to figure out what to do with WMU's HR department.  I am not a current employee so I don't know if the current employee change of address form would work.  They're so confusing sometimes.

At least today was payday at work.  :)  Oh yeah I am fairly confident my new job is getting taxed at a higher income rate.  Seriously I think I can start getting more picky on how income tax is spent.

I woke up at 5 am due to how freaking hot it was in the apartment. I really hope Luke talks to the office about the air today. :)

I need to call Allstate and add the apartment in Ann Arbor today.

http://thedailywtf.com/forums/thread/74660.aspx

BTW the first two don't count.  It's rather obvious.

I was just browsing a document regarding C# 3.0.  The query expression language looks interesting though I think MSFT will need to sell people on the idea of it.

I am bored.  Not much can be done about that at the moment.

Stealthy has contacted Luke about the possible hosting issues yet.  Ungrateful SOBs.  They have used a good share of resources for hosting and we can't even get a cheap one line ad at the bottom of the page.  Initially I was pissed but I found out the head of the project is in his teen's.  That's an age where people still think the world owes them something.  I say let them enjoy the notation until the world sneeks up and hits them over the head.  LOL.

I have a meeting later today.  How fun.  Meetings are so fun.  It's like going to Disney World and Disney Land in the same day.

It's quiet today.  Both bosses are out of the office for either most of the afternoon or all of the afternoon.

Boss 1 (business boss) sent me an email telling / gently reminding me to not have any personal calls in the general work space.  I was on my cell phone so he couldn't say I was costing the company money. 

I am quite happy he sent me the email.  Why?  Because it means if he is unhappy about something, he'll let me know.  Plus the email wasn't to be taken in a mean way.  Though I was slightly miffed because other people have taken personal calls and had conversations in the general working office (but I must note out of boss 1's earshot).  Apparently he likes silence.  We can't play music on the computer speakers due to this silence requirement. 

Luke was awake this morning before I woke up.  He's got to find a way to get some sleep.

My drive was uneventful. 

Yesterday I was talking to my mom and I hope everything works out ok for her. 

It looks Luke and I will be able to host our servers from our new apartment.  :)

We still need to discuss what to do regarding some of the sites (aka Stealthy's) but other than it's mostly a settled matter.

I'm doing some research for work.  Lots of fun.  It's really quiet this afternoon. 

My talk went so-so.  At least I tried a new restaurant town.  Pretty good place.  Definitely will take Luke there.

Can't wait to get home today.  It's not that I want to get out of the office so much.  It's more that I want to go home.  :)

http://thedailywtf.com/forums/thread/71364.aspx

Yeah that's good logic.  :)

I had to go over my interuption of the UML design and documentation.  After my boss gets back - more coding. 

 

My new co-workers recommended this site, http://www.thedailywtf.com.  It's rather funny (well if you're in the computer industry, IT or anything related).

The following function was an overseas Indian software shop's solution for SQL injection.  See any problems?

function checkForBadSql($sqlcode)
{
  global $CONTEXT, $ERROR_TEXT;

  $badSqlCode[] = 'create';
  $badSqlCode[] = 'database';
  $badSqlCode[] = 'table';
  $badSqlCode[] = 'insert';
  $badSqlCode[] = 'update';
  $badSqlCode[] = 'rename';
  $badSqlCode[] = 'replace';
  $badSqlCode[] = 'select';
  $badSqlCode[] = 'handler';
  $badSqlCode[] = 'delete';
  $badSqlCode[] = 'truncate';
  $badSqlCode[] = 'drop';
  $badSqlCode[] = 'where';
  $badSqlCode[] = 'or';
  $badSqlCode[] = 'and';
  $badSqlCode[] = 'values';
  $badSqlCode[] = 'set';
 
  //test if sql code is bad
  if (preg_match('/s['.implode('|',$badSqlCode).']+s/i', $sqlcode))
  {
    //bad sql found -- hack attept! Abort
    $ERROR_TEXT = "Invalid text was entered. Please correct.";
    return 0;
  }

  return 1;
}

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12809975/

What the hell were they thinking when they set up that habitat in the zoo?

I've been working on some C# code and a brief presentation I found I am giving Friday.   The talk will be on Ruby on Rails.  Yep, I have to research Ruby on Rails and give a 30 minute talk.  It should be fun.  Yeah... right.

The drive to work was eventful.  Near the I-69 exit on I-94, a semi-truck had taken the off ramp too quickly and spilled its cargo all over the off ramp.  Needless to say, it took me 30 minutes to drive 3 miles.  Other than that drive was peachy.

My bosses are in meetings for the rest of the day.  I was given a brief assignment (so to speak) to work on and was told I will be giving the tech talk on Friday.

I am still waiting for a phone call, e-mail, etc... I do understand it can take some time to put together a formal offer however I would very much like the whole thing to be done.