Just finished up a little Windows mobile app that crunches some numbers for photographers.  One part of the app shows numbers based on the Sunny 16 rule (f-stop and shutter settings based on available light).  The other part of the app calculates depth of field and what will and will not be in focus.

Akron kicked me out about this time last year. I had taken some classes at Tri-C, like Russian, which has never been offered at U. Akron while I’ve been a student there. I also took my calculus classes there (calc 1 to get a refresh, then calc 2). Because of this, Akron thought, “I left the college and wasn’t interested in a degree.” Either that, or they were jealous I took classes at another school and didn’t get their permission.

No biggie. I figure U. Akron was going to reset my degree requirements and with that possibility, I figured out what classes I needed to finish up my general education requirements and took them at Tri-C. I saved a good chunk of money (Akron is about $300 or so a credit hour while Tri-C is about $75).

I checked my U. Akron status and they transferred everything over and even gave me some junior year credit for the film class I took. So my general education classes are complete. I’ve got a stats class left to take and the rest are computer science. The estimate is 9 or 10 classes, depending on if I can stay under the old computer science contract or not (probably not). If not, then it will be 10 classes – they added a core computer science class to the mix. I don’t mind. It’s good for me. I plan to be back in class for the summer session.

I asked Olessia, “when was the last time I took you to a company holiday party?”

“Never”

“Doh!”

When I worked at Keithley, they always charged us $25 or so, per person (including the employee!) to go to their holiday party.  They almost always had their party on the same day Olessia’s company would have their’s (and their’s were free).  National City would have a small department party (30 people or so) which was fun.  This is my first year at Progressive and this was a holiday party just for their IT folks.  They rented out the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and made it a cocktail party.  I got to take Olessia to a company party for the first time.

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (click for more pictures)

Olessia and Rob at the Rock Hall (click for more pictures)

Saturday morning 2am, a loud noise is heard.

I couldn’t sleep.  I use the bathroom at 2:30am.  A check from the first floor bedroom window is a view of twisted metal and ice.  Our back gutter lost the fight to the ice.

Gutter fell (click to see more pics)

Just posted another batch of access points. This one includes the trip to Carroll county. There’s a pretty good number of APs out there.

I just launched Tekro-Web.com and blog.tekro.com!  Tekro-web brings Tekro’s web hosting to the front and makes for a nice go to page for getting information on Tekro’s web hosting plans.  Blog.tekro.com provides news and updates on Tekro activity and also provides articles and content useful for our existing and future customers.

Check them out when you get a chance!

I’m a little behind on getting the news posted. It was a crazy couple weeks at work.

John did his first solo cross country flight.  I met him at Carroll County airport (in Carroll county).  It took me about 1 and a half hours to get there and drove about 76 miles.  John only needed 45 minutes to get there and he was flying out of Burke in downtown Cleveland.  John’s instructor was right, the “on base” restaurant servers great pie (the burger was great too).  John let me borrow his hand-held scanner.  I was able to use that to listen for John’s announcements for landing.  The landing and take off looked great.

John Landing

The Top Gun Walk

The Wallpaper Changer has been updated. The new version includes the ability to remember the last configuration file used and load it automatically when you start the program. Download it today!

Gotta give a shout-out to Tekro for the hosting!  If you need hosting, check these guys out:

I added back all of my class notes. I also included the last couple classes at Tri-C. The notes are as is, with spelling and grammar mistakes and all.