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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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5 May 2005 - 10:19 pm
05-05-05. Today was a pretty sweet day. Odd symmetry aside, I think he big project at work -- participating in hardware failure test to ensure that our application can survive all kinds of ridiculous failures without dropping and transactions -- is complete. We had the normal morning meeting, but we were just discussing the results of Wednesday night's test (oddly, we're ending on less than a high note as the last test had somewhat mixed results -- although our app was, but the other big player didn't come out of things so well) and we aren't planning on running any more tests for this iteration. The production release is scheduled for the night of May 18th and we're busy ironing out details for supporting the app after it goes into production these days.
On a different subject, Jeremy sent me a link a few days ago to a site that lets you compare salaries based on different areas of the country. Basically, you tell it how much you make and where you live and it will tell you how much more or less you'd need to make to maintain the same purchasing power if you lived in a different part of the country. The more I play with it, the more I appreciate living in the Midwest.
Posted by on 5 May 2005 at 10:09 PM
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As someone who is about to move to New York City, I am very much learning to appreciate how lucky I have been living here in the Midwest my whole life.
Posted by Nathan on 6 May 2005 - 2:09 PM