Weightlessness Is Such A Gift

A pretty proud feeling that this week I’ve been working alot with sharepoint on this project and it’s been going pretty well I like to think. Figured out a problem and last night possibly a better solution in terms of dealing with summary links inside webparts and removing them. Currently I’m creating a new webpart with duplicate settings save one summary link, deleting the old webpart and creating the new one. If that works you should be able to delete the summary link and just update the page, check in, publish and approve and it should work. But the fix I have in place works and I probably shouldn’t spend more time on it especially since I would need to fix and test for bugs. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

I’m excited that we’re jetting off to New York here in a couple of months for a real vacation. It’s been forever since I’ve been on a plane, let alone out of the state. I look forward to the sights and sounds and busy city life of NYC. Yes I’ll be one of those tourist.

I’ve switched to Chrome. I hate coming into work and seeing that Firefox has yet again encountered an error every morning. It needs to be constantly restarted and it’s implementation on Vista leaves much to be desired. I can probably say the same for OS X since I’ve gone to Safari. The only thing that annoys me about Chrome is the lack of smooth scrolling and losing my place on web pages.

Yesterday, oddly enough in the bathroom at work, it’s occurred to me that in addition to working for small companies since beginning my IT career, I’ve worked for companies that typically were teetering in terms of business and cashflow. From lack of cash, to shady business practices, to a crazy spending spree. Either that or my presence causes companies to do remarkably awful. I like to think they have bad business practices and that I am not the harbinger of doom.

So an interesting problem was posed last week when I attended a school board meeting with the missus. Every year the wage of a incoming new teacher (year 0) gets say 44,000$ while a teacher(year 1) the previous year plus the yearly raise would get either lower then that or on par of that.