Good lord. The lexical side of things is easy.

Thinking in terms of the big picture is most definitely a skill that takes work.

And trust me, not having anything approaching a CS degree, it's mental work.

Now, the fun part is putting something together and seeing that it makes sense is very neat.

I don't have much more to expound on here, just thought I'd post that in between Dreamweaver saves.

On a lark, we compared some code running on cf5 versus cf8. Mind you, it wasn't an exact comparison, but the rough numbers obviously show a huge difference in speed between the two.

Reports run faster, etc. Way cool.

Started a new job.

Things have been in a flux.

I finally wiped Vista off my laptop. Just couldn't deal with it anymore. It simply sucked. Period.

I went with OpenSuse 11. There isn't much of a reason beyond my familiarity with Mandriva and Ubuntu, and wanting to try something new.

Beyond having to tinker with the wifi card (32-bit Atheros card put on a laptop with a 64-bit processor. o-k.) everything else was fine. I didn't even have to download the Nvidia driver for my xserver, as Suse handled the video resolution fine.

The one major thing I like about how Suse uses Gnome (my preference of desktop managers; I simply can't like KDE. I even installed 4.0; no good.). There's no bar at the top, ala OS X. Yeh, the taskbar is very Redmond-like, and the layout is kinda similar to Windows. So what.

All I know is that things are running just fine now thankyewverymuch without intrusion by *that* OS.

So there.