i'm employed

November 18, 2002 by Eric Richardson

I went to orientation this morning, so I think it's finally time to talk about the fact that I am once again employed. I am now a rocket scientist. Well... I do work for NASA, sort of (more about the technicalities of that later). I'll be working for the International GPS Service Central Bureau doing server administration and Perl programming. I'm excited. I start for real tomorrow morning at 8am, which I'm less excited about. I'm just glad to be working again, though. I've missed it. And to be working with Perl? Muah haha...

stupid web reg

November 13, 2002 by Eric Richardson

So you would think that web registration would mean you could register whenever. But no. Only until 10pm, and only mon - fri. What good does that do me right now? I want to register. Ridiculous. Luckily none of my classes are in any danger of filling up.

still working

November 12, 2002 by Eric Richardson

I could really use more sources for this paper. I'm not finding them right now, though. Books are the real problem, I'm not finding much and what I am is already checked out. Time to source for the prospectus and conquer the battle of finding the books later... One book I'd really like to use hasn't come out yet, so that's a totally different problem.

the joys of research in the night

November 12, 2002 by Eric Richardson

So normally I really don't like coming to the labs to do research. I can never really concentrate on what I'm doing with people sitting right next to me. I always feel like they're looking at my screen, or that they're about to askme what I'm doing. When I'm researching I like my privacy. That's why I've decided that all my research needs to be done at 2:40 in the morning. There are probably 10 people in here for 100 computers. I feel alone again. This is good, maybe this time I'll actually find something.

maturing code

November 11, 2002 by Eric Richardson

It's funny looking back on the different levels of coding style I've been at throughout the years. Today in some work I was doing in eThreads I ran across this gem:

${${$g}[1]}{title}

Yeah... That's readable... From inside to out, a ref to an array whose element contains a ref to hash that has an element named title. Of course, the proper way to write that is:

$g->[1]->{title}

Obviously I did not know this at the time.