mglazer: You need professional help. Go seek it. In the meantime, shut your yap.

User Interface Design is getting more annoying by the day. Last Monday, we were discussing inappropriate terminology, and he brings up the example of requiring the user to decide if he wants a "literal" or "Boolean" search. He asks us if we know what a Boolean search is.

I promptly gave the right answer (multiple search terms with and/or/not). However, the professor claims I'm wrong, then goes on to describe, in great detail...

... a binary search. (you know, the old "sort it then look at the halfway point and determine if it's too high or low, then choose the midpoint of the appropriate half and recurse").

A few of us actually broke out laughing.

I firmly believe that the professor believes that JavaScript is going to save the world, and the Web, to boot. I'm still trying to think of a polite way to tell him he's full of shit. I'm also writing my assignments in PHP, which will generate much of the JavaScript I need.

Windows XP seems to be better than any version before it. (damning with faint praise.) Anyway, once I turned off the Barney/TeleTubby theme, it's actually tolerable.

I don't know what to say. Nothing's happened yet, although I would very much like it to. I can tell we're getting closer... but is it just friendship, or is it something else?

A few days ago we worked together on the website she designed for her church. It's almost done, but there are a few things we'd like to get working soon (recordings of the pastor, etc). Of course, I'm continually finding things that "aren't done" or "need more work", just so we have an excuse to see each other...

I've been forcing myself to drink much more water than I used to (I'm aiming for about a half-gallon per day). It would seem that I'm chronically dehydrated, so hopefully this will help me return to normal.

I'm also drinking at least one large glass of orange juice per day; the rapid temperature swings around here (it dropped 40 degrees Fahrenheit in one day and is supposed to return) seem to reduce peoples' immune systems. I'm trying to keep mine in good shape; I don't want to get sick.