Mahoneyt^.[blog]

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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!

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."

While everyone else from my high school class is finished with school for the year, I’m still working hard on final projects, “studying” for finals, and writing papers. Well, tomorrow I present my Programming III final project with Jason and then I’m officially finished for the year. Freshman year of college was a larger challenge than I could have ever imagined, but in hindsight it was ultimately the most enjoyable year of school I’ve ever had. The people that you meet and the coursework that you do doesn’t compare to the mundane tasks of high school.
Also, I’ve officially started my new job at the Information & Technology Services department on campus. The work environment is very professional and yet extremely laid back at the same time. I like the work I am doing and I have met a lot of very knowledgeable people even just two weeks in. I will be spending the majority of my summer on campus (40 hour work weeks) working for ITS so I suppose it’s only suitable to like the people I’m with. I guess the days of part-time work are over.