Senior Project

Well, this semester I will be doing a senior project. I am to write software to deal with the creation, printing, scanning and data storage for some forms. You know, the type that you fill in the circle or the square such as standardized tests? So far I have been mostly working on getting the tools I need for it. They want the data to eventually be stored in the school's Oracle database. So I spent a few days trying to acquire the Personal Edition from their website. Now that I have the software resting on a CD I need to find a computer to run it on. My little iBook G3 is probably not the best choice. The instructor is looking into finding a spare machine but I might just have to get my Gateway machine from "home" and spend a few pretty pennies repairing it. I was hoping to put off those repairs for another year or so. Oh well.

In other computer related news, I got a 100 piece computer tool kit to help out with any hardware situations I might run into while working on my 60 volunteer hours. One of the first things I did with them was to open up an old hard drive so that you can see the platter. Hard drive platters are real shiny and every computer guy ought to have an open hard drive sitting on their desk for kicks. No, I didn't count this towards my 60 hours.