Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Last Week
I didn't accomplish much last week. I'd been on 'vacation' since my dad came to town, which was around June 14th. The previous week we went to Florida. I don't even think I made it to the library until at least Tuesday, maybe Wednesday. I pulled the Intrusion Detection book off the shelf several times, but I didn't do any actual work. I remember now, that first day I spent time trying to create a sample C++ program to create a Windows (Vista) Contacts object. The goal was to familiarize myself with Windows Contacts to create a Thunderbird plugin. I failed miserably. A Windows Contact is a COM+ object, and creating one isn't as cut and dried as I thought.
I honestly don't remember doing anything of value on Thursday. No, wait, I emailed Willis Marti telling what little I actually had done and asking him if Patrick had actually gone to CCDC. He said he'd been as a participant and as a coach. On Friday, I started working on getting Thingamablog to the place where I could use it for all my blogging needs. I finished that today. My goal is to merge entries from both previous blogs into Thingamablog. It would be a cut and paste job if it weren't for the fact that the dates have to be entered using the form field. That's going to take time for each entry.