My 1st week on the job

I've finally had an opportunity to meet the people with whom I'm to work this term. Michael, my supervisor, teaches middle-school kids how to juggle. He's also a Mac user. Actually, almost everybody on my team uses a TiBook running OS X. The lone Linux user is Tom, my mentor, who is a veritable fountain of fascinating information about Mexican food. The other interesting thing I found out is that both James (Gosling) & Michael grew up in rural settings and consequently have plenty of great stories to tell.

I have a SunRay & a Linux box to work on, although I've been having some issues getting RedHat9 to play nice with the PC that is supposed to be a Linux box. Perhaps Suse 8.2 will fare a little better... The SunRays are kewl because of the way they use a JavaCard to allow roaming sesions. I stick my JavaCard into the SunRay to use it and then take the card with me when I leave. Then I can stick the card into any other SunRay in the lab & my session will pop up onscreen, ready to use.

A few of my coworkers have many plants in their cubicles & one of them was kind enough to lend me a couple of hers to green up my work area. It's always a delight to have rich green foliage to add some life to the artificial indoor environment :-)