Masters candidate, new mentee, Nikon D300
News, Work, School ·Thursday July 31, 2008 @ 20:24 EDT (link)
Good things happening all around!.
20080729: My mentee arrived (cool initials: ZX). He's a new full-time developer unlike Luiz (LM), who was an intern; I'll be mentoring him to help him get up to speed working in the Word development group: helping him understand the Word code base, coding conventions, bug tracking, etc.
I was gone when he arrived; I was meeting a guy to purchase a slightly used Nikon D300 camera. I met him at a Bank of America, and, as the camera was in good condition as promised, and we both had accounts there, the purchase was handled via direct funds transfer. The guy seemed to have taken good care of the camera; he was moving up to the new FX (full frame) D700. New photos from here on are taken with the D300. I've also enlarged all photos sizes (thumbnails, mid-size, and I increased the size the camera is storing).
20080730: Mentee has a working Word build, some familiarity with the core Word data structures, and 5 bugs (of mine, in the area that he'll be working on, which is the object model); we took a look at the first one then I left him to keep going and let me know when he hit a roadblock. Co-authoring: separate partition for locks work is progressing well.
20080731: I learned that I have been accepted into the Professional Master's Program in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington; the PMP advisor said my GRE scores were among the highest he'd seen in 10 years of administering the program. It starts at the end of September; one (evening) course per quarter plus a colloquium.
Modified the books read page to allow Honey to keep track of her read books separately. I also added a page yesterday to show a list of our DVDs in 4:3 "full screen" ratio (excepting TV and others that are only available in that format); we may try to sell some of those and buy the widescreen versions, especially for favorites like the Indiana Jones trilogy (maybe they'll have all four in a box then) and Star Wars.
Called my parents, told them about getting into the PMP and our open house; they're taking a trip to Maine, to stay at the Sea View Motel and hang out at the beach. Talked to Dad, Mom, and Julia, who was playing Scrabble™ with her boyfriend Josh(ua Sabourin).
