The home stretch

Posted In: Academic, Everyday life — April 21, 2005 @ 9:16 am — Peter

I have one more week left of MSCI 600 after tonight and cannot wait to be finished up. Not that I have disliked the class, I just need a break from school. The 8 week classes at Regis are quite intensive and you are forced to work aggressively throughout the entire term to complete all the required assignments. I still have to wrap up my final project, a 20-25 page report on the IT business alignment of the organization I work for. In addition, I have to put a presentation that summarizes my report. I’m looking forward to the presentation most. This class has lacked presentations from students and I look forward to seeing what my peers have to say. I’ll likely use OpenOffice Impress again to build my slides. I love its ability to export slides to an HTML-based slideshow…

On Tuesday night, Stephanie and I went to Cherry Creek Mall to get me a replacement pair of glasses. Iris managed to get a hold of my glasses again and chewed the stems up a bit more. They are still wearable, but slightly uncomfortable… Turns out my vision benefits plan is not accepted at Lenscrafters. I didn’t check before going, I just assumed Lenscrafters accepted all vision programs. Instead of heading home afterwards, we went shopping at Foley’s. We stumbled upon this great looking Calivin Klien suit and I could not pass it up. I have been intending on getting a suit for years now and have been avoiding the actual purchase for quite a while. After trying it on and deciding it was the one, I went over to the tailor and had it marked for adjustments. I was surprise that the tailoring of the back and sleeves would only be an extra $20. So, I have a suit.. mission accomplished. Another great thing at Foley’s… not only were Dockers on sale, but they had them in size 34×31. I rant about this every time I shop for pants. I am somewhat short, but a 30 length is too short and 32 is too long. Rarely do I find 31 length. I’m wearing a pair of the pants today and I really really like them. I may have to go back over the weekend and get a few more colors because they are on sale for $25 a pair.

Yesterday at work I helped seal up a Postfix configuration for our mail relay server project. Something that seemed lacking from the Postfix distro was simple mail queue management. Sometimes messages get stuck in the queue for various reasons and they may need to be requeued or removed. The included tools are not very convenient, so I combed the Internet for something else. I found pfqueue, a ncurses-based console tool for postfix queue management. It was 99% there with features, so I cracked open the code and added the last feature we needed. I created a diff patch and submitted it to the author and he replied saying my code would be included in the next release. Ah, the joy of open source software…

I’ve been reading this blog alot lately. I don’t know why, but I’m more interested in blogs of people who are geographically close to me… I have found some great blogs on the blogroll and also realized that I have a long way to go in learning how to blog. The majority of my posts are journal like in nature and are hardly interesting to anyone that does not know me personally. Perhaps I’ll read one of the blogging 101 articles I found a few weeks ago…