Sheep Guarding Llama

Wow, can you believe that it has been ten days since I have had the chance to write anything to the site? What a busy week. I had to run down to Washington and work down there all week. While I was there, I spent some time watching ” SpongeBob SquarePants ” on Nick. I suggest that everyone check it out. It is so funny. I have been singing the theme song for the last two days. Loopy is going crazy.

Well, my new video card has still not arrived and I am getting very anxious to be able to play Quake II with even cooler graphics. I know, it is sad when an IT professional doesn’t already have this stuff around his house but I just haven’t been playing video games much over the last few years and I am just behind the times. Lo siento! We did manage to get Tim to play the other day and Josh went out and bought himself a copy last night so that he could play over the internet with us from Rochester.

I have to go to Washington tomorrow and stay there for the entire week because I am taking an intensive AIX training class being hosted by IBM. It should be a fun class but it is fourty hours in a single week. It is going to be a long and exhausting week. So, be prepared, there isn’t going to be any SGL postings going on while I am out of town. Unless, of course, I decide that I am getting bored and decide to head over to our server farm there and play on the machines there.

Wow, is March flying by us or what? It seams like I was doing such a good job with this site and then everything hits and we fall soooo far behind. Sorry about that everybody. Maybe tonight we can get some cool new stuff posted for y’all. The new game around the house is Quake II! Loopy and I swore that we would never get into such a mindless game but here we are, playing it all night long and talking about it at work. I even ordered a new video card for my computer so that I can play it even better. How sad, I know. It is a fun game, though. Bob, Loopman and I all run around killing each other. Tim (our Letter to the Editor guy) is coming over tonight and we will probably get him to play too. He has played before. Tonight, instead of doing our weakly restaurant review session, our friend Cara is coming over and cooking for all of the llamas. See how cool it is to live in the sea? Anyway, sorry about the week+ between postings. I hope that everyone has checked out IthacaPortal, it has been absorbing all of my time. Plus, it looks like I am going to be taking OilNavigator under my wing again. Always something going on. Take care, Llamas!

Happy Birthday to Eric, one of our email contributors! He is the big quarter century today.

IthacaPortal.com opened today on the Niatel network. IthacaPortal is a new site that will be attempting to be your one-stop guide to all things Ithaca and Tompkins County so I suggest that everyone in the area go there and check it out for cool places to go to in and around Ithaca. It isn’t anything too exciting yet, right now it is basically just a lot of links but there will be lots of content forthcoming so it is worth bookmarking. This has been a back-burner project of mine for some time and it is finally a reality now.

Also, check out www.OilNavigator.com if you want to see something else that I have been working on. I worked at OilNav this past Autumn while I was living in DC. If you check the contact page, you will see that I am still listed as the webmaster. It is actually a consulting position.

[IthacaPortal went on to be relatively popular for several years during the time while I still lived primarily in Ithaca.  After the summer of 2003 when I moved away from Ithaca the site became rather stagnant and eventually faded away.  It was discontinued completely around 2005.  The name was then bought by another company.

OilNavigator didn’t last very long after this point.  The bulk of the staff was let go a few weeks after I left there last year and most of them never saw any compensation for the time that they were putting in there.  I was the last person at OilNavigator to get full compensation.  They made some attempt this year to hold on and generate some revenue or get bought out but that hope never came to fruition and later in 2001 the site would fade away as well.  By 2006 most references to the site left online would point back to my own online resume or to SGL.  December, 2007.]

You should all be excited that so much new content has been going up onto the site! Last night was a long night of work for me. Notice that the poetry section finally has something in it. I did manage to destroy the “Why I Drink Pepsi” page last night while working but I will get that fixed soon enough. I know that no one is going over there to look at it much anyway. You’ve all seen it by now. I tried fixing a reported problem with the navigational bar on the left so see if this works any better.

The other llamas have gotten themselves addicted to the PlayStation game, Worms Armageddon. Luckily, I have managed to hold up here in the basement and have avoided being sucked into their insanity. I can hear them screaming up there now. Must be another “Holy Hand Grenade” or a sheep.