Reading a book by Joe Haldeman called Starbound. It was suggested by someone, seems to be the second in a series but I’ve really not looked into it. Interesting book. Difficult read – the author uses narrative in a peculiar way and sometimes it’s hard to identify who is speaking. Otherwise, a neat book. Should have that finished in a couple weeks – I only read for about an hour before bed and I have to keep going back and rereading to figure out who is speaking…

Maybe if I read more books, I would get an iPad or a Kindle…. unlikely.

I’m making a note here: I’M DISTRESSED!

It’s hard to work on this thing after work.

I am still alive and I want to complete the theme, but I have no energy after work the past few weeks – that’s kinda how my job goes. I get a few weeks of quiet and I have energy to work on the theme, and then I have a few weeks of INSANE and I barely have enough energy to feed myself and crawl into bed.

Don’t worry, I am committed to getting all your suggestions into the theme, get all the bugs fix, get out of beta and release on time.

Oh, and the cake is not a lie – it’s just so far afield it’s difficult to see right now.

AutoTask is the big name in the business. At the recent MSP conference, they were the suggested provider and had, overall, the largest market share amongst the other MSP. ConnectWise is the next big name in the market and quite a few of the MSPs were using it. I am going to demo both packages, but nothing is more important than actual experience using a specific solution, so I appeal to those who read my ‘blog who might know something about this sort of thing.

We’ve done very well the past few years and I want to continue building on that success. Any ideas from the “crowd”?

Working on Saturday sucks, but it pays the bills. Trying to figure out some odd glitch on a client machine with Backup Exec System Recovery 8.5. Windows installer/LiveUpdate tries to install updates for the thing, and fails. The application itself fails to run. Right clicking in an Explorer window and selecting ANY function crashes the shell after a few seconds. WEIRD!

I want to set up the Inanis Sandbox, so you can see what I’m working on and I can play with WordPress junk without killing Inanis.net. I have a sandbox running, but there’s no content. I’ll have to work on that.

*breathes*

I’ll get back on track soon. Looks like Inanis Glass 1.3.5 is running smoothly now that I ironed out a couple of kinks. When I get some time, I’ll put it up for download, unless I get any more objections.

Thanks to everyone who has used the theme and given praise, criticism, help and derision – it all helped make my contribution back to the WordPress community something to be proud of.

Sleep, Data…

I will spring back to life shortly. No promises on when, but I will soon.

Building a new repair shop, working on high-profile customers, expanding our business, ripping my gray hair out, coming home at midnight and waking up at 7am. What a life…

It will quiet down soon and then I won’t know what to do with myself.

*falls asleep*

Been busy setting up computer labs and other crap.

*collapses from exhaustion*

I was planning on setting up a development server for Inanis.net so I can make changes offline without upsetting the website. With that, I had an idea for rewriting the inanis.net theme to look even more Aero … but who knows if that will ever get done. I have too much crap to do that doesn’t involve computers.

I updated my WordPress plugins recently to newer versions. How mundane.

I also wanted to set up a LiveJournal account, or perhaps a feed, and crosspost this blog with LJ so I could be involved in a “community” without having to manually update multiple sites, and I would still have control and ownership over my content (i.e. if LJ ever disappears, Inanis.net will still be here with all the content). That probably won’t go anywhere.

The raspberries are good. I made ‘em up into a syrup and put it on cakes and icecream. Yum.

Myspace is stupid.

I’ve been playing around with a Lenovo ThinkPad R61i that a customer returned because it was BSODing. I think it’s problems were due to the hard drive shock protection feature’s drivers an management application being out of date… oh, and the setting was turned up to Shock-Nazi – the thing would completely lock the drive if you so much as metabolized air, let alone actually move. I saw it lock the drive sitting stationary on a table. I turned that down and updated the software and I have yet to see it have a problem. Not sure what I will do with it at this point … shop laptop or resell it at a steep discount to get rid of it.

I stated a long time ago about a merger between my company and another company. That merger is complete. My company not only does computer repair and networks, but now also printers, ink/toner, office supplies and office furniture. It’s got me stressed out – too much work and not enough people. Blah. It has doubled our profitiblity, however. It’s been a year in the making and has been a good thing for the company.

*yawn*