Welcome to my Blog

"Brian's View of the Shore" is my first website. Built using Word Press.  A fellow student (Thanks, Kaushal!) in my "Technical Communications" class (Fall/2012) at Saint Thomas did a presentation on "Blogging with Tumblr", stirring my creative juices.  I decided to teach myself WordPress and started development of this website in mid-Nov, 2012.  The intent is for it to be more of a complete personal website and not just a blog.  If you want to see a list of the various topics and pages, click on "Site Map" on the Upper Menu Nav Bar. If you just want to read my Blog, click on "The Blog" on the Upper Menu Nav Bar, or any of the following Links, otherwise, … [Otherwise]

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Recent Post Excerpts:

Statement of beliefs and values – election 2024

You gotta know by now (after 8-9 yrs since the 2015-2016 presidential campaign trail), that I’m a liberal; I’m a democrat; I support gay rights, and same sex marriage; I support a women’s right to choose; I support women who have to make an agonizing decision, and that decision is theirs alone to make; I do not ‘get’ people who feel the need to stick their nose into someone else’s pregnancy. I support gun control, and … [More...]

Documentation and procrastination at work

Close to exactly two months ago (May 13th), I asked “Luetta” at work for copies of three specific MS-Word documents that I needed to update for a project I’ve been working on for last few months. One is called a user’s guide - and it’s a couple of hundred pages, a shorter one is called the programmer’s guide - a much smaller doc [Sorry, I didn’t write down the exact page counts]. The third one (“Tech Info Guide”) is … [More...]

Working with a colleague, trying to determine why “Read-only” checkbox is checked on MS-Windows file.

Just another short blurb tonight (lol). Just another fantastic day at work today; a colleague had issues with a program he had developed, and QA (quality assurance) was testing; he was informed by QA either late last week or this past Monday that ‘something was wrong’, and I’ve been helping him try to determine the root cause. The irony here is he’s a seasoned cobol programmer (and I’m not), and the program was written … [More...]

The question was “what exactly was/is a mainframe?”

So - in my opinion, “back in the day” - BEFORE windows/Linux/unix/intel/dell (from 1950s thru, let’s say: 1985-1990 - before Unix/windows NT servers came into existence), and take this (at first) with a grain of salt: A mainframe was not ‘commodity’ hardware; each computer manufacturer (before AND during the advent of the seven dwarfs / BUNCH), had their own proprietary hardware AND OS software. Once you bought IBM, or … [More...]

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