A Glossary...
A recent conversation turned to weird acronyms we use only at work or school, and I realized I had an insanely large number…
ACU: Automated Channel Update AGU: Automatic GDS Update AMF: ASCII Message Format BRD: Business Requirements Document CRS: Central Reservation System DTE: Data Transfer Express FDD: Functional Design Document GDS: Global Distribution System HOD: Hotel Operational Description PFF: Positional Flat File PRINUP: PRoperty INformation UPdate SMP: Screen Management Program SOP: Standard Operating Procedure SWAD: System Works As Designed SWAG: Scientific Wild-Ass Guess TDD: Technical Design Document TPE: Transaction Processing Environment
…and that’s just what I could think of off the top of my head. :P
I recently titled a document “Sabre HOD PFF FDD”. I kid you not.
Anyone else have any they’d like to share?
Read more...Wrote a couple quick scripts to let me store the names and command lines of all my Windows shortcuts in a plain text file, then (re)generate the shortcut files on the fly. It let me convert all my Web shortcuts from opening in Internet Explorer to opening in Mozilla/Firebird with one quick search and replace. Not bad.
Now, what else do I need to move to a centralized text file?
Read more...I’m getting a little tired of trying to figure out the difference between what people say they want and what they actually want… My project manager talks on and on about how we must leave no line of code unturned in our reverse engineering. A week later he pulls me aside and says I’m going into too much detail in my documentation. :P
I wasted a lot less effort when the only engineer I had to please was myself…
Read more...Animal Planet: The Most Extreme is pretty cool. They had a marathon Sunday, and we flipped back and forth between that and the Super Bowl (to see the commercials). They pick a theme (most extreme venom, most extreme appendages) and then choose bizarre animals (or commonly known animals with bizarre traits) that follow it. The narrator is cheesy, but you can see a lot of cool critters you probably haven’t before.
Looks like I’ll be voting for Clark in the primary. I won’t mind if Kerry wins, though.
Read more...Just got introduced to Hornsby’s Draft Cider. Tasty stuff. I’m always looking for new recommendations - what’s everyone drinking these days?
Read more...Introducing...
Diana:
http://spook.myserver.org/images/jay_mcgavren/2004/painted_mountain_2004-01-24/jay_and_diana_640_x_480.jpg
And son Lenny (18 months):
http://spook.myserver.org/images/diana_szymanski/2003/lenny_oh.jpg
Isn’t he cute? Isn’t she cute? :)
Read more...Desert photography...
Diana and I went out this weekend to a few desert locales and shot some photos. Here are some highlights:
Diana’s: http://spook.myserver.org/images/diana_szymanski/2004/painted_mountain_2004-01-24/saguaro_hole.jpg http://spook.myserver.org/images/diana_szymanski/2004/painted_mountain_2004-01-24/huge_saguaro.jpg http://spook.myserver.org/images/diana_szymanski/2004/painted_mountain_2004-01-24/jay_on_sunken_picnic_table.jpg
Mine: http://spook.myserver.org/images/jay_mcgavren/2004/painted_mountain_2004-01-24/overhanging_branch.jpg http://spook.myserver.org/images/jay_mcgavren/2004/superiors_2004-01-25/crooked_tree_2.jpg http://spook.myserver.org/images/jay_mcgavren/2004/superiors_2004-01-25/superiors.jpg
The whole collection: http://spook.myserver.org/images/jay_mcgavren/2004/superiors_2004-01-25 http://spook.myserver.org/images/jay_mcgavren/2004/painted_mountain_2004-01-24 http://spook.myserver.org/images/diana_szymanski/2004/painted_mountain_2004-01-24
We’re gonna head out again this spring when the desert blooms, so look for more then!
Read more...There are “organizational changes” going on upstairs within IT - a lot of management types have been sacked, and the grunts could be next. I’m still safe down here in my department, but I’m worried my opportunity will evaporate before my eyes… Well, as long as certain key individuals are spared the axe, my name will still be known upstairs.
But I wish I had my degree under my belt, so I didn’t need to tie my fate to this one company…
Read more...At work chomping on an orange that came from a tree in a backyard, not a supermarket. Sometimes living in the desert can be cool…
Read more...Changed my first diaper this weekend. :P And before my friends start to worry, just because I’m turning responsible doesn’t mean I’m turning mature. :)
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