SO, this morning the train was much less busy than normal. So much so that there were actually empty seats in the car I was in. This was odd. It made me uneasy...

When we got to North Station in Boston, there were fewer people on the inbound platform for either the green line or the orange line than I have EVER seen there. This was odd. It made me uneasy.

Then I got on an E Train for the ride to Prudential, it's a longer walk to the office than either the Back Bay Orange Line stop or the Copley stop on the Green Line, but it's ALL indoors, and I could use the exercise. The train was packed, this was more like it.

I hate crowds normally, but they have apparently become such a part of my daily experience on public transit that I now find myself looking for them when they are not around.

I guess that says something about life in the city. Amazing how alone you can feel in a crowd, and how singled out you can feel when alone...

My website hasn't been updated in a while. My blog hasn't either. So here comes the first TINY update in ages. Then we'll start on the real work of catching up... (Man I need a wiki here to...)

Hopefully I'll be able to keep up with it more again now.

Later, Necris

07/26/2006; 10:34:13Back again so soon??

OK,so here we go again... I'm trying to update the template a little, let's see how it works...

Wow, started my new job on Friday. What a different world I'm in already. The people I work with now are much friendlier and open. The place I work is more open and spacious, AND brightly lit.

My commute is rather different now too, riding the train into North Station/The TD Banknorth Boston Garden (formerly the Fleet Center...) then outside to go into a building and down a set of stairs, which lead to a tunnel under the street to get on the orange line at the North Station stop. Orange line to Back Bay, which is connected to Copley Place by a tunnel...

Basically I will only be exposed to "Outside" when I'm going from my front door to my car, at the Gloucester Commuter Rail Station, and at the short (MAYBE 50 feet...) walk from North Station to the tunnel. After that I'm indoors all the time. Which means that it is VERY nice that the office has glass walls... ;)

Copley Place Mall (the bottom two floors of the building, and at least two other buildings...) is AMAZING also. Having to go through this mall with a Neiman Marcus, and Chilis, and walk past all this retail to get to the first floor elevator (three stories up!) for Copley Place Towers is just amazing. It lends the entire day a very surreal quality.

Monday will be the beginning of my first real week at Compete. I'm hoping it's as much fun and as magical as the whole experience of finding this job and going in for my first day were.

I'll keep you posted!

OK, so I'm leaving this job for another at the end of next week. I'm really looking forward to the change of venue, and the change of pace.

OK, so I actually decided to do it, I found a new job as a software developer with Compete, Inc instead of my security job with these guys Mirror Image Internet.

As with all changes this is both exciting and frightening. I REALLY hope that it goes as well as it seems it should. I'll be back in Boston (instead of Tewksbury). I'll be riding the train again, most likely. Should prove interesting, and seems that it should prove fun. I'm pretty sure that it can't really be much worse than where I am right now for me. MII is a great place, with a great bunch of people, but I'm a bit burned out on the whole security guru thing. It'll be nice to be a code jockey again. I love writing code...

Hope all goes well.

So far I've managed to get rid of my .emacs file and create a ~/Library/Preferences/Aquamacs Emacs/Preferences.el which is more Mac friendly despite making the whole of my Unix Based Soul hurt.

It does follow Unix principles of recursive directory structure. It follows the Mac Paradigm of making it possilbe to atomically replace an executable, but it does seem somehow "Un-Unixy" to me.

However, it gives me GREAT Emacs integration on my Mac and that makes me VERY happy.

Now lets see how well it works out with Blogmax ;)

Need this code saved in your .emacs file for use with Aquamacs Emacs for blogmax to upload properly. Get's rid of some FTP errors...

(defun mac-set-creator-code-for-file ()    (if (and aquamacs-set-creator-codes-after-writing-files        buffer-file-name        (fboundp 'mac-set-file-creator)        (not (file-remote-p buffer-file-name)))    (mac-set-file-creator buffer-file-name)))

That should about do it... I would think