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Wanted: More Time

Thursday, June 30th, 2005 at 6:32 AM Category: Meryl's Notes Blog No comments

Quickly: if you or anyone you know is familiar with WEP, WAP, IPSEC, please help. Email me if you know of experts and I’ll contact them. Thanks.

I’ve been so busy lately that as soon as I remember to do something, I forget. For the past couple of weeks, I wanted to write the meryl’s notes newsletter for June. It looks like I’m going to miss it as there’s no chance I’ll get it done and distributed today. Since the newsletter is informal, I didn’t want to kill myself to get it done when I have two others to distribute and a third in the making. Heck, I didn’t have time to write my daughter, who is at camp, an email yesterday (first time I’ve missed since she’s been gone).

Been getting to know Coldfusion (cfm). Am having a blast. I use the concepts I learned to create dynamic pages in PHP. It’s tricky since PHP and CFM are different, so when I find a problem in the code, I can’t use PHP as guidance. Databases don’t come to me naturally. It’s weird because I love geeky stuff and software, but my brain isn’t wired for it. But I did get the database working with Coldfusion and have other ideas for other projects. I’ll report on how I do things in cfm soon.

Reading Why I Deleted Email Interviews inspired my newest article, Why I Am Stuck Doing E-mail Interviews. Donna’s article is excellent and that’s why I was motivated to write my perspective. I try to educate people on the idiosyncrasies of leading life as a person who is deaf at Bionic Ear Blog. In fact, doing this blog helped me discover things about me that my hearing loss impacted. I grew up with an “I can do anything except talk on the phone without the relay” attitude. Now, I’m older and wiser and accept that’s not the case.

I try to lead my life as a person who has integrity, cares, and acts friendly. But for some reason, I feel overlooked too often. For example, I have CSS Tableless Site, which lists sites using layouts with CSS instead of tables. When others mention similar reference sites, mine often doesn’t make the list. The person who originally ran this list was the first person to create such a collection. I am proud of the work I did in getting it organized. I’ve also been disregarded from thank you lists of projects where I did more than many of the others. I probably sound high on myself saying this, but I don’t know a better way and it’s upsetting.

Being a person without hearing and having an uncommon name helped people remember me like teachers, but it isn’t working where it counts. I could never get away with missing class as professors didn’t forget me as I always sit up front or in position where I can best see the professor. Gonna stop now — ’nuff rambling. On the bright side, I did come in second place. Love scavenger hunts.