March 2007 - Posts
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
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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. Not
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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.
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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-IV,
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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 The Diva Principle by Michelle Hammond McKinney (2004) US $1.99 Masterpieces
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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
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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 their
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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
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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
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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 will
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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
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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
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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 an
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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
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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 performance.
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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 the
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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 going
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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 will cover
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Just wanted to post a follow up. As someone suggested, I could simply put the drives in a new box with a working firmware. True enough, the drawback is that a 1TB TeraStation is in the $600-700 range. Somewhat of an expensive way to fix things and am
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For all my data (or at least most of it), i've been storing it on a Buffalo TeraStation which is essentially setup as a Raid-5 NAS. So generally, unless something catastrophic happens, well the data is safe. Well, the lest of the expected catastrophic
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The last buyers to back out from the sale of our townhouse did so about 4-5 days before closing when they technically had exhausted their "standard" (and valid) options to back out. So until now we have refused to sign them out of the deal. The main reason
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Still having some various muscle and joint pains which has started a few days ago. Havn't done anything really straining physically so I am unsure where this all comes from. So the best bet at this point is that it would be related to the Depakote. After
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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
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Been through my re-eval earlier today. Unless something bad comes up in my bloodwork later this week, I will be returning to work (part-time initially) starting April 2nd. The part-time return will only be for a few weeks mainly to easy me back in without
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Yay, a technical post. It's been a while since I wrote one of those. Been working on EasyBarcode 2.0 and working on the export functionality. One important part of generating barcodes is the ability to export to vector based files so the barcodes can
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Having another re-evaluation tomorrow morning. This time to determine if I am fit to go back to work on the 20th or if I need more time off. I myself do not know. Don't think i've been on the new medication long enough to be "stable" and I need to do
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I think there is an evil "bill troll" that hides behind my mailbox and stuffs bills in there when i'm not looking... It's pretty depressing bill-wise this month. With minimum payments, looks like i'm still about $200 in the hole this month. Think all
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Still geting a bunch of questions about the HOA and how some of the bills are paid and why some missing. Somewhat earks me condiering i've dropped off the box almost one month ago. Any HOA questions from this point on will be kept siomplr on my end. Just
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Not the first time I read about it and I have to admit that the "artificial artificial intelligence" idea is interesting. http://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome The one thing I don't understand is the rate that users are expected to be paid to complete some
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Well, went to the doctor to have this wierd chest pain that started last night and which was still lingering in the morning. Well they couldn't find anything wrong and just said it probably was just some random muscle cramp (which apparently Depakote
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Well tonight was my third day at full dosage. Actually went to bed somewhat early (around 10pm) which is a good change! But now I woke up about one hour ago with some kind of a knot in my chest. Not feeling bad in any other way (well a little bit of a
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One of the things i've been fiddling with during my off time is working on Version 2.0 of EasyBarcode. Version 1.x was focused only on ISBN/Booklan barcodes. However the new version will add support for most common 1D barcdode symbologies as well as a
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Been browsing around, trying to figure out what the costs of the equipment to print my own books would be. This could reduce my costs and would definetly increase my turnaround speed. Of course, with such high-end machinery, no one really posts any pricing
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Went on full dose of my medication. Nothing bad (or good) to report so far. Will probably know better in a few days once its fully working. My initial "return to work" date is set for 3/20. So one of the topic at my therapy session was how I felt about
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Well, i've been trying to make at least a daily post to my blog. In a way to keep everyone updated on how things are progressing with me. But at the same time, it is somewhat of a theraputic tool. Some way to share, vent and spread awareness about all
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So this is the begining of day 4 on my new medication. Mood wise, pretty good so far. But then again I was un an up-swing when I started taking them so i'll see if the better mood sticks. I am also ramping up my dosage so I will be at full dose in one
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Only took almost 4 months! The first two buyers backed out after the inspection claiming the carpet was too worn and dirty. I had no problem with having the carpet replaced anyways, but they never even bothered asking for it in the first place. So that
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Taking advantage of some of my time off, i've started writing out a more formal business plan for Paradoxal Press . From a general business point of view, most of the business plan details (what I want to do, where the business is heading,...) was already
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