Lately I've come to realize a very important issue with my work flow is one of tangents. My attention is easily grabbed, probably because many things interest me. This is both a blessing and a curse. Often I find myself browsing the web, usually on some kind of programming blog or programming website. Blogs typically have large amounts of links in their content bodies, which direct the user to other, relevant pages of interest. I click on the ones that interest me, often opening them in tabs behind my current one. This works out ok for a while, but I end up with a browser window with 100 tabs full of stuff I really want to absorb, but there's just not enough time!

Sometime ago I found a pretty swell website with a bunch of math/programming problems called Project Euler. I forgot to bookmark it, and my search for it later when I wanted to try a few of the problems didn't bring me back to it. Luckily, I have no life and spend an absurd amount of time online, so a few days ago I came across it again. Anyway, I've been doing a few of the problems in Ruby. Other then not understanding some of the math, my biggest problem has been optimizing functions so they run quickly enough to not spend hours and hours (or weeks, or years..) running.

Now that the weekend is to an official close, I was doing my typical Sunday night ritual of putting off homework and watching stand up comedy on youtube. To live up to the nerdy-ness all Computer Science students strive for, I tend to multitask frequently. While in the midsts of a silly little python program just to entertain myself, Imagine my surprise when the idea of a lifetime struck me.

No, I will not say what it is at this time, but consider this post a teaser: much php code (or ruby on rails? I hope my host is up for the challenge..) will be written in the near future. Hopefully I'll debut the next MySpace, Facebook or YouTube soon. A guy can dream, right? :)

Early today, perhaps around 10 AM, I decided to upgrade my Drupal install to version 6.2. As it turns out, this was a mistake. Luckily I made backups before I attempted this feat, or I probably would have given up blogging for a second time.

So a few months ago, I got an email from the head of the computer science department here at UNI. He periodically sends out emails containing swell little tidbits and things, including job opportunities. I saw a fabulous job offered by a company I’d never heard of, called BrightMix. I was excited; they paid well, were going to be using a language I was interested in learning, and were located somewhere outside of places I already knew; Omaha, Nebraska.