- I just had a 2+ week vacation where I planned on getting a lot of things done. I got a lot of things done but not everything I needed. My failure to complete my list of tasks largely has to do with my laptop biting the dust on me halfway through. I didn't realize how much of a slave I am to that thing until it went down. For ten years I have owned nothing but Thinkpad laptops (this is my 4th) and this is the first major hardware failure I've had. Fortunately the machine is still under warranty (didn't know what to expect there since I bought it from somebody on Craigslist) so this will only be equivalent to a temporary lobotomy and I'll get these monkeys off my back soon enough.
- One of the things I got done was migrating the RZMCOM codebase to .NET 3.5 and xNET 3.0. This was the first step I needed to take before revamping the site interface and took way more time than I thought as the xNET 3 API still needed a few small tweaks to accommodate my needs here. Unfortunately,...
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