Sebastien St-Laurent's (AKA Sebby) WebLog

Well over the past day or so, my web server has been acting erratically. Services going down, websites not responding.... So I have been digging deeper into this tonight. What was odd is some service named servs32.exe kept trying to start every few...

I have to admint that is is somewhat of a dramatic change going back to work after being off for so long. You do get used to living on your own schedule and dealing with every day things at your own pace. Work-wise, there wasn't that much going on...

I've been mentioning for the past few weeks that i've been working on a new "homepage" for myself where I could post more information on some of my projects, especially in regards to projects that didn't directly relate to my book publishing efforts....

Return to Work First of all, as I've been going through my mailbox, I have recieved several blog related emails that were posted via my blog. Since these emails were sent to my Microsoft email address, I have not been able to read them until this week...

My first bay back at work went well. Like I said in my previous post, it was mostly getting my computers back up and running and clearning out the 5500 unread messages in my mailbox. :) Definetly tired toight, kida not used anymore to work for long...

`At work right now. Sorting through over 5500 email messages (sheesh). That is of course on top of the mandatory 1 hour (update install and reboots) session to start. I was expecting a large number of pilled up emails, just not to this extent. Wow...

Last evening before my return to work. About to try and go to sleep so I can be in at a reasonable time in the morning. After being off for over 2 months, I don't expect to get much done in the first few days. Most likely clearing my mailbox and catching...

After the success of ShaderX, the ShaderX2 books, ShaderX3, ShaderX4 (Game developer frontline award) and ShaderX5, we are looking for authors for ShaderX6. The book will cover advanced rendering techniques that run on the DirectX and/or OpenGL run-time...

Not sure if its joyful or not. Its 3:30 am in my office, with no lights out and no noise. In a way, it's probably the best environment to get anything done. But with 3 days to do before I head back to work, i'll definetly have to break this cycle....

I still have been getting sporadic joint pain mostly in my arms and knees. This has started about 2 months ago, about a few weeks after I started taking my Depakote ER. So far, the Dr says he doesn't know why and that it isn't a side-effect he knows of...

Found the following article about bipolar cycles. From my reading, this applies to all cases but is even more apparent when dealing with less obvious forms of bipolar such as Bipolar 2 and Rapid Cycling. Diagnosies are made on the basis of the DSM...

Here are the new items I listed today, eh (looking at the clock) well yesterday... The Essential 55 Workbook by Ron Clark (2004) US $5.49 Parables from the Back Side (2005) US $5.99 ...

Yay! That sure took forever! Finally managed to get all the data copied to my main PC. Took a little over a week of trial and error to get the whole process done. So essentiallyh a whole week where I had no data access and probably more importantly, the...

My ex-boss, Steve Lacey, who now works at Google posted an interesting tidbit about VC's (Venture Capitalists). ARTICLE HERE. "So, apparently there’s an event in New England where Venture Capitalists go and ski and entrepreneurs can pitch to them if...

Managed to find a little time to add more items to my "Garage Sale" today on eBay. Not as many items as I would have liked to list but my main computer is dragging because of the data copy from my Raid array. So at least everything is progressing. Here...

Wow. Is it that time already? Yep, I am returning to work on April the 2nd, after almost 10 weeks off. The first few weeks were really slow going but I have to admit the past month just flew by without me realizing it! I have to admit I am still somewhat...

Using UFS Explorer , I was able to recover about 90% if ny data. Unfortunately, some of it could not be recovered. Two folders just contained way too many files for the program to handle and would run out of memory. I was told by the author that he...

Items are selling like hotcakes. Thanks for everyone who has been supporting me so far. I will be listing some new items this weekend when I have a chance to go through the garage. Today has been spend mostly dealing with some more Raid data recovery...

Well, in my case it is more of an inventory clearance. With my book retail on http://www.ParadoxalPress.com , i've accumulated a certain amount of inventory over the past 1 1/2 years. Although my initial plan was to list it on my website and other market...

With a second edition of Practical .NET 2 and C# 2 comming up in the next few months I have been pondering what I will do with the remaining inventory of the first edition. With the current inventory, and the current rate of sale, I expect to have...

Had my appointments today. So my bloodwork is all good. Nothing out of spec. They also monitor the medecine level and they aim for a blood level of 80, mine was 79. So I am at least medically cleared for work. Will have to do regular bloodwork (every...

With all my posts about my TeraStation failing, I forgot to mention more information about the box in the first place. The setup itself is pretty good. The main drawback with the basic boxes is that they use IDE drives which might have an impact on...

Finally have a solution. Data is copying as I write this! Yay The makers of UFS Explorer have been of great help trying to figure out the file system on those disks and have come up with some fixes to their code and the setup needed to properly read...

Just as a general update. Today, I had my bloodwork done. I have an appointment tomorrow to go over the results. Maybe it will shed some light on this joint/muscle pain i've been having. It has been somewhat better over the past few days. At least...

Due to the small response we've had so far, I am reposting the announcement... After the success of ShaderX, the ShaderX2 books, ShaderX3, ShaderX4 (Game developer frontline award) and ShaderX5, we are looking for authors for ShaderX6. The book...