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February 08, 2006
I'm still kickin
Ok, it’s been a long time since I posted here and a lot has happened since October 24th. Well where to begin…I ended up going back to Newfoundland for Christmas this year and it turned out to be a really great time. I got to see a lot of people over my time home, although not nearly as many as I would have liked. It was great to be home but it was kind of sketchy because I never had my car, had to share with my parents, everyone was busy doing family stuff, and it was cold and snowy! The next time I come home, hopefully this summer, everything should be better then. I never realized how dragged out I was from work until I took some time off and came back in the new year to start back at it all. It’s funny, never thought I needed a vacation until I came back from it refreshed! Speaking of vacations I’m on the verge of booking one at this white water rafting place in West Virginia for august called ACE Adventure Center, which seems like a really nice spot.
Their has been a lot of other things going on my life over the past months but I'm to lazy to type everything out.
Well work has been going really good for me lately so I'm pretty content on that front. I get to more or less do my own thing here so I'm still learning a lot! My primary project right now is still working on a device simulator for load testing, which I find really challenging to work with. It's really cool because I'm familiar with just about every RIM BES protocol as they all have to be simulated for load testing. One fun thing about this job is that I don't usually do the same thing twice and I'm always seeing new protocols come across my desk, or new features, which have to be implemented. It's a lot of document reading figuring out how the Blackberry works and then simulating it from scratch. In other news I've had my first patent officially filed on Feb 1st! I will post the name/ID of it when I figure out if I'm allowed to or now. I have another 4 that are almost ready to be applied for and 4 others that are still in the drafting stage. All these ideas have led me to believe that I do in fact have good ideas that could be worth a lot of money to someone, if the technology moves in that direction! A little confidence booster and a little bit of patent bonus's make Daryl a happy camper.
I've finished a slew of books this new year, all of which were great reads!
1. The Truth - Al Franken. This was a great read and possibly better than the previous one I read, LIES: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them - A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right. Al is a brilliant writer who can delivering enough truth about the Iraqi war and the Bush administration to sicken even the most right wing individual and then turn around and make the reader laugh as so we don't undergo the same levels of stress/anger while reading the book as he did when he wrote it. I highly recommend this book!
2. The Game - Neil Strauss. Another great read that was recommended to me by one of my friends Curtis Jennings over x-mas. This book introduces you to an underground culture of pick up artists that use/teach methods ranging from using Magic to CIA mind control techniques that were developed during the cold war. The stories told in this book are some of the funniest/craziest I ever read!
3. The Rebel Sell. Great read about culture jamming and how ineffective it is.
Currently reading two books on patent law now, semi-dry but very interesting read.
Posted by Daryl Martin at February 8, 2006 04:37 PM