Trying out something new

I've started posting on my MSN spaces for the next bit...
http://spaces.msn.com/members/ganwong/

It's all perspective

Life goes on...
I think I've adjusted pretty well to my new life of singleness.
It's kind of liberating ... you never realize how much your behavior changes when you're in a relationship. I'm really curious if most people do change when they get into a long term relationship.

Is this even a good thing to change like that?

What's on my mind: I need to get a wireless card for my computer. I'm currently running a massive long cable across the floor to get access... not good.

How do you know?

How do you know if you're doing the right thing?
I don't think it's the fear of doing the right thing... it's more the fear of change and the unknown future that scares people.

When you're down, you're down

So... all I can say is miserable crappy day. Rainy.
Miserable crappy weekend. Dealing with aftermath of breakup.

Really.

I feel like going to bed and staying there for a while.

Good night all.

Semi-connected

I got my PDA last week and I've been playing around with it. Neatest
feature? Wireless. I'm writing this post in Gmail and mailing it to
Blogger. Neat in a geek sort of way.

Dragonboat festival

It started off on Saturday cloudy and rainy, with the occasional downpour, but the weather was absolutely gorgeous for the last day. Really, as long as the last day was good, that's all that people remember.

Our team did pretty well... we ended up in the Recreational A finals! We didn't do all that well there, but just being in those finals was a pretty impressive accomplishment for our team. Excellent time in the beer gardens. Met up with friends from other teams, and got stamped by the Shagging Dragons, and licked by the Horny Dragons.

They have a Paddlers' party at Science World (or the Telus Sphere) until 10 or 11, and then some teams are doing fundraiser parties downtown... either the Roxy or Buffalo Club. Should be interesting.

Boning up on VBScript

I need to automate a couple of the things that we're currently doing here at work.
One of these is the configuration of our installed product by updating various xml configuration files.
We have a GUI for configuring this currently, but I'm rather use whatever utilities come with Windows to do the configuration... any additional tool that we have to use is an additional tool that we need to support when something goes wrong.

Windows scripting host and vb script seem to be pretty good with string manipulation.
I'm kind of lazy, so a quick search on returned some decent links on string manipulations.
http://www.minwar.com/learn/ASP/General/StringParsing.asp

Some more research, and I found there's something specific to XML files... XML DOM
It had some stuff on reading an xml type doc into my script, and this link has some stuff on reading the different attributes.

So, that, and some info on arguments should be enough for me to get started.

So many things, so little time.