Los Altos High School 62 Reunion

I'm going to my 50th high school reunion in September. It's from the 7th to the 9th in Los Altos. It's the Los Altos High School Class of 1962 50th Reunion. Here's a link to the site. This is an addition in 2015.

Migrated

I've just migrated to blog beta. Testing it out, but my real blog is at majormike.net.

Testing DashBlog

This post was entered using DashBlog by June Tate.

Finally Mostly Retired

Since my retirement in March of 2003, I've been doing some part-time consulting with Wood-Mizer Products, my former company, at a hefty hourly rate. This came about because Wood-Mizer is migrating to the latest version of their Enterprise Resoucre Planning software SyteLine 7 from SyteLine 5. This migration is made difficult because the operating system changed from an unix based 4 GL database to a Microsoft SQL based database. Since the latter has no user interface, it is connected to the user by way of Visual Basic .NET and a middle layer, which I will not get into. Suffice it to say, now the developers must be able to write in four different languages. this is also exacerbated by the nearly 2000 modifications and custom reports Wood-Mizer has developed which all must be converted to the new system. My job has been to convert many of these modifications over the internet.

After many attempts to correct some severe performance issues with the new system, and several postponements, Wood-Mizer has decided to halt development on the new system and postpone conversion indefinitely until the company, MAPICS can correct the performance problems in SyteLine 7. I don't think it's going to happen anytime soon.

Therefore, I'm officially re-retired

Crap

I just tried to load the OS 10.3 Panther on my iMac. It has 10.2. The 10.3 disk is made for my iBook, so it doesn't have the drivers for the iMac on the disk. Thus I got one of the very, very, very rare crashes on my Mac. Sob. Sob.

Just Got Tiger

I just installed Tiger (Mac OS 10.4) and am using the Dash Blog widget in Tiger's Dashbord to create this post.

The only problem with Tiger is it's on a DVD. I bought the family pack and can't install it on my three year old iMac because it doesn't have a DVD drive. I'm going to have to figure something out.

Hmmm......

Not my only blog

Hi folks. This is not my only blog. My main one is on Xanga. And I maintain two other web sites on which I use blogger to maintain update lists. They are Mission Indy and Majormike's What's New Page.

I'm not exactly sure what I'm going to use this page for. Maybe some serious writing, I don't know.