Things have been really hoppin’. Too much to allow blogging time.

Cynthia and I took a short trip to Vegas, stayed at the Luxor, saw Blue Man Group, had a blast, but had to come back.

Work is busy. So much so, that I haven’t even had the time to put together a decent website for the new business. Got to get that done. Several projects (happily paying ones) have been keeping my attention.

And yet, the world marches on. Plenty of dumb things happening in the political landscape: Fahrenheit 911 is getting plenty of press, but people seem to be wising up to all the fallacies and deceits of this mockumentary. John Kerry picks a “safe” VP running mate that won’t help him at all. A story leaks today that Homeland Security is investigating the possibility of postponing the election in the event of a terrorist act; something that won’t happen (the postponing, that is). It would be just about the stupidest thing ever to do, giving in to the terrorist threat. Ah, to have more time to comment.

Apple previews Tiger, steps all over a successful developer, introduces marvelous new displays (including a 30″ monster), and sells the 100 millionth song on the iTMS. If they’d only hurry up and release Motion…

O, and it’s hot. But that’s not news, that’s normal for Texas in July.

I had a very strange meeting this afternoon. Perhaps I’ll tell you about it sometime, but not right now. I did, however, pick up a copy of Return of the King tonight on the way home. Sweetness.

And yes, I know it’s been a while since I posted. I’m out of town, although that’s no particular excuse. I’m trying to catch up now. See, I updated the books on the right side…

I’m in San Antonio, recording voiceover and video for a training series we’re doing for the US Courts. Long hours in the sound booth, woo.

There’s a lot going on, both at work and at home. And in the world. Hopefully I’ll get a chance to comment on some of it soon.

Once again, I find myself in San Antonio for the week, recording voiceover and video for a Training project we’re doing for the US Courts. I drove in last night (missing the superbowl and the controversy during the half-time show), but it was a nice drive down.

I’ll be here until Thursday, back in Dallas overnight, then Cynthia and I are going for a weekend in Jefferson.

Wow, yesterday was crammed full of activity, and today isn’t much better. We’re exhibiting at LotuSphere 2004 this year, and wouldn’t you know it, we’re not quite ready. I’ve been working on getting things in shape this AM, and now I need to go do some client work to pay the bills.

Marketing is a pain. A necessary pain, but a pain nonetheless.

Lance found and squashed a couple of bugs in the BlogSphere Domino blog template that were causing invalid XML in the RSS feeds.

I’m in Utah for the first half of this week, consulting with a client on our development method and approach to building complex workflow applications. How’s that for a mouthful?

Two things that are awesome:

• Wireless high-speed Internet access in the airport lobby
• First class

However, dial-up access in the hotel room: not so much.

If you’ve arrived here looking for the Dallas FinalCut Pro User’s Group website, I apologize. Due to a slight misconfiguration of the webserver, http://dallasfcpug.org wasn’t resolving properly and was sending people directly to the default site on my server, which is this homepage. I’ve since corrected the issue, but you might be experiencing some weird caching issue. If that’s the case, try to go here: http://www.dallasfcpug.org.

This past couple of weeks has been really busy. Both at home and at work. Hopefully over the next few days I can get back on a semi-regular schedule of posting.

We’re working on a prototype at work, building an educational offering centered around advanced development techniques in Domino development. We ultimately would like to deliver this on DVD, but are doing the prototype of one segment of material to see if we’ll be able to pull it off with the time and budget we’ve decided we can afford. If not, we shelve it for the time being.

At home, we’ve been dealing with the bug that’s been going around. The whole family’s had it at one point or another except me, and I guess it’s fortunate that I’ve been working so much; I haven’t been around enough to catch it from anyone else. I think I missed it, we’ll see.

We still had two more machines infected this AM. Once cleaned, our network traffic returned to normal, almost quiet levels.

Let’s see, my XP box wants 33 updates and critical patches. How does Microsoft even begin to keep up?