Archive for March, 2005

Here I Come Avanade

Monday, March 21st, 2005

On the way back from Cannon Beach today I was called by Avanade and offered a job as a Program Manager. Yeah, I’m pretty stoked. I’ll be starting April 13th. Yeah, I’m a little tired right now to enjoy it, but I’m sure I’ll write some more about it later.

Cannon Beach

Sunday, March 20th, 2005

Since many of us in the Informatics program graduated this past week, we decided that we wanted to take a little trip. After talking about where we can go on a limited budget, we decided on Cannon Beach, Oregon. Anthony and Trevor did the leg work to look at hotels and to find a place [...]

Avanade Update

Friday, March 18th, 2005

Jules,
Avanade called and so far so good. They should call back next week with more details. I’ll keep you posted.
For those of you who are not Jules, see above.
In other news… I’m off to Cannon Beach for the weekend.

  • Google X - Kinda fun to play with, but I think regular Google will work for me. (1)
  • The Builders of Basecamp - “Our baseline approach is this: project management is communication. Projects don’t fail from a lack of charts, graphs, tables, reports, stats, spreadsheets, and so on. Projects fail from a lack of simple two-way communication.” (3)
  • XHTML is Dead - “Today I have to admit that I was wrong. XHTML 1 is dead. Lost. Beyond all salvation.” (5)
  • HTML Validator Extension for Firefox - Based on Tidy, this little guy validates pages on the fly and offers suggestions if things go awry. (1)