Well I finally did it. August 5th 2004 around 9pm I turned in my last code assignment and was finished with my bachelors degree from weber state univeristy. It was a bit of an odd feeling and looking back I really enjoyed it. I learned a lot and met a helluva lot of nice people I loved working with and downing beers with in the offtime. The degree is in the mail as they say and I can't wait to post that fucker on my wall. Now do I want to move onto a masters degree? That I think is still in the works. I'm ready to be done with school for a while and just focus on my job for now.

Well this semester is in full swing and all I can think about is graduating this summer. Two more classes and I'm done. A BS CS will be my biggest accomplishment in life. Not saving the world or curing cancer. But I'll take what I can get. Life sucks and then you die. Now I just need to get a job and start writing code for a living.

Well as it turns out I never got around to making those XML progs that I wanted too. I got involved with school and shit just never panned out. Right now I'm about to get into my summer semester and things are turning out to be very interesting. I have an HTML and MFC/C# class this semester that is going to be alot of fun. One of them is an online class which is always interesting. I ended up making a small tic-tac-toe game using Visual C++ that was alot of fun. Now I am working on a net tools prog that lets users use the trace and ping commands with a GUI interface. We'll see how things work out.

well now that I'm done with the board project I'm moving onto something else. I've had lots of exp. with XML and C++ and really like Microsofts XML parser. What I want to do is make a Java program that scrolls the current slashdot headlines for me. I know I can get the headlines from slashdot in XML but I want to learn how to implement them in a Java program. As I know very little about GUI java things this will be a bit of an undertaking for me. Once this is done I will be re-writing a program I use at work, this will be done in C++.

-jlechem out-

Well the board is up and running! I am usign phpBB and mySQL. If anyone gives a shit you can read it here. Nothing too fancy, runs on my PIII 700 box at home. It wouldn't take much to slashdot it. If you fancy go ahead and register and post a hello message on there.

Well here it is Saturday night and I'm at eBay slaving away at the emails in my inbox. I would rather be at home working on the mySQL project I've been doing. Yes folks that's right mySQL, I read slashdot daily and haven't worked on mySQL yet. So rather than wait for work to make me learn it I am getting a head start on my own. I would be earlier along but a computer hard drive crash caused me all sorts of grief. My goal with this project is to create a mySQL database and have some kind of web forum access it. I am a star wars nerd and would love to use it for a kick ass star wars messaging board. So I will work on it whenever I get some spare time inbetween work, school, and family.

-jlechem out-