Just thought I’d toss up my halloween costume from this year. Since it’s pretty damn slick.

My Data Halloween costume this year.

And of course, the crew of the enterprise.

I have some really cool friends...

That is all…

.joe

Going to look for another new layout, that supports widgets… as this one does not….

.joe

So just a quick little note, I went to the new sushi joint on King’s Street today and was pleasantly surprised. Fredericton hasn’t really been known for its culinary diversity, at least so long as I’ve lived here, but hopefully this place does well.

It doesn’t really have a lot of ambiance, not the type of place I’d really like to just… hang out in. But hopefully that’s just new restaurant stuff.

.joe

Finally finished geology and onto slightly more exciting things. I’ll be working on some manner of text editor in the coming weeks for my advanced design patterns class. So maybe I’ll have something of interest to post on that. I find CS courses kind of funny as they require the strangest things of you. In this case we are being asked to implement a bunch of the  original GoF (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_of_Four_(software)) patterns, in Java. (Read: iterator, list… etc.) Which is, well kind of insane considering they have all been implemented quite well in Java already (java.util.list……….) Bah!

Anyway I’ll let you know how it goes, and of course post the results.

I have full intent to continue posting my various projects up here. It’s really jsut a matter of find the time, and the code on my computer.

.joe

So today I found a new place to do my yuppie coffee shopping here in Fredericton. It’s called Crumbs, not very well lit, but there is dedicated customer internet so that’s something. It also looks like the regularly have live music, which could be interesting. It think this place has a slightly less corporate feel to it in general, so for now this will be my Tuesday and Thursday home.

In other news I’ve been making a lot of head way with the iPhone SDK and hope to release an app soon. It’s a Todo application, there are already quite a few of them out there but most are lacking in certain functionality that I hope to encorporate in mine. More on that later.

I’ve got a meeting with Josh Merchant via phone about doing some work over at Spheric, no idea what that will entail but I look forward to working with Josh again, and doing some web stuff which is always fun.

That’s it for now.

cheers.

.joe

Hey, I was inspired and changed the layout, as well as, started updating the projects section. I’ll slowly upload all the source code from my various projects. Most will include code for your reading pleasure.

.joe

I just downloaded flock, the social web browser… It appears to allow me to post blogs from the browser. It also integrates with all my favorite social apps (FB, Twitter et al) so watch out lame tech blog-o-sphere, joe may post a lot more.

In other news, my NSERC application is on the go just about finished hopefully it’s well received (read: I get free money). I’ve got a few iPhone apps on the go: a refined Todo app that has a few of the more standard features you’d expect to see, also a workout tracking app, and a simple integer base converter, pretty neat stuff.

I think that’s about it… Hopefully I’ll get better at this stuff.

.joe

So this morning I was watching CNN and I saw something somewhat amazing, well maybe not depending on your outlook I suppose. In any case, growing up in north america I was often told when not wanting to eat some particular vegetable there were starving kids somewhere in the world who would love my broccoli.With that in mind the particular CNN news story was talking about a village in Burma that could no longer grow food because their land had be devastated, there were clips of some Burmese people looking bummed out, and one guy commenting that he knew they were going to starve to death. That being a big enough bummer as it is, CNN then cut to its hourly “Gas prices are real real high in the US” (which they really aren’t compared to anywhere else in the WHOLE WORLD). I just couldn’t believe the segue, from a horrifying story about people dying WITHOUT FOOD, to a bunch of whiny people complaining about it being expensive to go on holidays… Man we have it rough… .Joe

Well I’ve been home to Calgary for about 2 weeks, and have started work. The term finished up nicely our project won an award in fact, so that’s something I suppose. In more recent news I am working at Telvent for a month, doing gawd awful boring work fit for monkeys… but the pay is decent so that’s something I suppose.Work on the project with paul is about to start picking up, as well as my work with CF so this is shaping up to be one hell of a summer.I will try and be more diligent on this, though I doubt anyone is really reading… so there you are. :P.joe 

So last week sucked. Last minute rushes to get stuff done, poorly written lines of code that failed at the last second. Again had our team been perhaps firing on all cylinders  back in January our project might have been a bit better. This week is sucking even more.Doc writing is probably the least fun  activity a programmer can sit down and do. *Sigh* also I’ve got this crazy Philosophy essay that I put off all term, sorta my own fault, I am hoping for an extension there but who knows. I am off, time to write an exam, at least that will be one class down and dealt with. .joe