Maryland Technology Day ... is coming up fast. It's this Thursday, October 4. The advanced registration is closed, but I think you can still show up at the door and pay the full rate.

I'm excited to see all of the neat sessions - I just wish I could stay after mine is over but I have to run to class. The fabulous Gary Price is doing the keynote so we'll start off with a bang.

If you're in the area and you're still on the fence, you should know that the food will be awesome, too!  ¶ 9:37 PM| (0) comments |cites (technorati) |

  I'm in sombody's top 3 :) Thank you! (of course I looked... you did to)  ¶ 10:39 AM| (0) comments |cites (technorati) |

  Taking processing speed and RAM for granted Back in the day, I remember talking about optimizing algorithms and programming and ways to put things into Mathematica and such so that you can get stuff done in a reasonable amount of time. Oh, and sending commands to DIALOG in an order such that it doesn't use too much "connect time". Now, with 2GB RAM at work and 1GB here at home on my laptop, I'm spoiled... that is, until I try a massive analysis program or try to code in Nvivo.

At work I'm doing an analysis that is basically working with 20k node matrices... wow! I guess all of those things that run in the background kind of add up. How do you tell everything and its uncle to stop updating itself. The convenience of having these things auto update is now looking like a very bad thing. On top of that, my desktop keeps trying to back itself up. (smack - sit still, you in the back!)

At home, doing some coding for qualitative research, Nvivo was grinding to a stop (I wonder if the people who coded it looked at efficiency when making choices?).

So, in other words, I'm closing down my browsers, IM, desktop search indexing, Juice... and anything else I can find, and I'll get some work done. (hopefully)

Oh and it's been pretty quiet here since I've been basically sleep-deprived and cranky -- if you can't say something nice... and all that.  ¶ 3:15 PM| (0) comments |cites (technorati) |

  Yay - downloadable video from my local public library At first I wasn't too sure about this, but now I'm excited. PGCMLS has downloadable videos - including some of my favorite PBS cooking shows... ok, now I need time to sit in front of the tv or computer, and you can't download time :)  ¶ 4:02 PM| (0) comments |cites (technorati) |