Mahoneyt

School is Work++

Thom — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:39:33 +0000

Week six of Winter quarter is coming to a close. I was talking to a friend of mine yesterday about how we’d rather being working than in school. Even if the hours are longer in the workforce, you don’t have to sit through hours of boring classes titled “Needs Assessment” and “Human-Computer Interaction II – Interface Design” (apologies to Bryan and Rick). And, when you go home from work, you’re finished with it! You don’t need to think about doing assignments outside of work which will be due the next day, graded, and reflect on your performance as an employee. In that sense, perhaps it’s the homework that I don’t like. I think that apart from that, working full time gave weekly retribution in the form of a paycheck and that is much more satisfying than the promise of an eventual undergraduate degree in Information Technology.

Yeah, yeah, I know. It’s childish to think in terms of immediate rewards but sometimes the present is your only focus. Thinking too much about your future is futile.

Recently, I’ve discovered that no matter how much time, money, patience, hope, and support you lend, some things are just simply not in your realm of control.

Ported the site to WordPress

Thom — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 01:47:39 +0000

So, editing html directly to make new posts is fun and all, but I’d like to try a different solution. WordPress seems promising and also pretty.

Save The Kids

Thom — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:14:30 +0000

Radiohead’s most recent album, In Rainbows, is a work of genius. This remix of “Reckoner” and MGMT’s “Kids” is as well.

Matt Damon on Alaska’s Finest

Thom — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 05:12:05 +0000

I’m not one to base my political opinions / know-how on what celebrities say but… Matt says it best.

Blue Door Dev

Thom — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:09:34 +0000

Joe and I are actively working on getting our company off of the ground. Blue Door Development, Inc. — as it has comne to be called — will soon actually be incorporated and we are already starting to develop for our first project. It’s hush-hush until we’re actually incorporated though.
If you’re reading this and have any sort of web scripting, design, database experience or otherwise, please don’t hesitate to send a résumé to thom@bluedoordev.com.

Spring Break!

Thom — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 05:06:08 +0000

Classes are out; finals over. The campus is empty and our “food” debit (in quotes because we honestly used it on so much more than just food) is gone. If only RIT had a normal break schedule, I just might get to see people from back home. There’s enough work to do moving into the new house though!
Now it’s time to find a co-op for the summer.

Google is Foul-Mouthed

Thom — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 05:01:27 +0000

I was looking through some of my friends’ blogs and I liked the way that one of them looked. It was hosted on BlogSpot so I decided I’d make an account to check out the user interface and ease of use. You see, hosting your own blog with its own design isn’t exactly easy to update. Anyway, when I went to make an account the first thing that I saw was this:

Should I be offended?

Temporary Hosting Change

Thom — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 04:58:51 +0000

I decided that I wanted to upgrade my server to a faster machine and in all of my wisdom decided to DBAN the old server before the new one was functional. Turns out that the new server is extremely unreliable and I am repairing it. So, in the meantime I’m stuck hosting the site on the netfirms servers which are kind enough to add advertisements to my pages without asking. Also, it seems they have put a nice file-size limit on my images.

10,000 Miles & Counting

Thom — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 04:49:37 +0000

I got my car almost two years ago exactly. I remember because as soon as I got it, I was getting on a plane to go to San Jose, California for a Leadership Forum. I never realized how many miles we actually drive and the immense amount of time that is spent in our cars. On an average of 5,000 miles per year, that works about to be close to fourteen miles a day. More math: At $3.00 per gallon, that’s about $1.50 per day for most of us. Over the course of a year, I spent approximately $550 on gasoline. In my opinion, if everyone could cut these costs in half, the world would be a much happier place. Hooray for Hydrogen!

Steve Got Owned

Thom — Thu, 24 May 2007 04:14:19 +0000

Srhinehart.com, the would-be home of Steve Rhinehart’s portfolio, is not in the possession of Steve Rhinehart. Why? You ask? Well, I’ll tell you. Jason Eberle and I bought it before Steve did and then whipped up a graphical front-end that changes every time it is loaded. I did the back-end DNS and virtual host stuff so that I could just host it on the same server that Mahoneyt.net is on. Steve was anything but flattered and ended up buying StephenRhinehart.com before I could tell him it was just a joke and he can have the original domain. Therefore, I’m stuck with a domain I have no use for and Steve got the last laugh.
Steve Rhinehart, also known as "Evil Steve," is pictured here with a red light saber in his hands. Jason Eberle is the one on the far right and the other person is Steve Cary, appropriately known as "Good Steve."