Just in case you’re not aware, I’ve been working on trying to figure out a decent software company name. Well, I think I’ve found it. It’s a secret for now, but I’ll be registering the domains for it pretty soon, and hopefully by September/October I can (maybe) start up a little LLC for it and start development of a few ideas I have. The first order of business will be to distribute my still-under-construction PHP CMS under the company (yes it is taking a while, but it is a beast).

I have a few other little regular applications I am working on as well.

In addition, I am still debating what to do about this blog. I’m thinking of closing off this one and starting fresh with something that says “I am jeremy and hear me… *nerd* roar…” . However, that may not happen. Whether or not I continue blogging is a complete mystery to even myself. It is fun and all, but I suspect my time and skills can be put to better use elsewhere, such as at a software company.

This could very well be one of the last blog posts I ever do.

Any of you guys heading to IzeaFest? I’m kind of debating whether or not to go. Just ran some quick numbers and it’d cost at least $430 to go. Not too bad, but it’s a nice chunk of change for a *plays sad violin music* poor starving programmer (and more recently, part time customer assistance person) like myself *end music*. Still, I suppose the networking alone is worth 10 times that…

I’ve never been to one of these things before, so it’d be a brand new experience.

Anyway, if any of you guys are going (and I go) I’d love to meet up.

As much as I hate to do it, I just can’t help but share this little find with you all. Apparently there is a funny little splog-thing called This Stuff Sucks. It appears as though it skims through a bunch of blogs for the keyword “sucks” and links to them. Bit of an odd choice, but whatever.

If you’re like me and you have computer ADD this site will probably become yet another huge time waster.

Once again, I apologize for the lack of posting. Long story short, I have a job now so I’m trying to schedule everything around it. So far I haven’t had much programming and blogging time.

I’m also thinking about starting up a small website which will be the home of a software company I might be starting (to distribute my projects and such through).

Needless to say, things are a bit nuts, but they are getting better. Oh well, have a good Sunday, and remember to say hi to your mother today!

Well this is a bummer. Everyone always says to try open source software, and I’ve tried Open Office a few times - each time to be disappointed. In fact, each time the same thing happens that happened this time. And no, it’s not on the same computer either, I have a bunch of different ones and it does the same thing on every one of them.

Earlier today I was writing up some coding guidelines in Open Office Writer, saved the file, came back later and all the formatting was completely screwed up. Things were bolded I didn’t bold before, and entire sentences mysteriously vanished. So 3 hours worth of work was destroyed because OO can’t do a simple thing like save a file.

There wasn’t any advanced formatting done either, it was all basic letters, spaces, tabs, and a few bolded items.

And before someone yells at me: it has done this same thing to me in the past when saving in different formats, on different oses, etc. It is just a bug in the program that hasn’t ever been fixed (and yes, I’m using the most up to date stable version).

Oh well, back to using Microsoft Word.