Meeting/Demo
April 15, 2002
This morning I had our product team had a meeting with our CEO to show off the current state of our project. Fairly uneventful, except for the part where our project manager (or something, I'm not sure what his actual title is, but he always has a timeline) suggested we rename our data mining tool the "gravity-operated disco Wang-Master 4000." I'm not really sure where that came from.
In other news, Google has released an API that will make that auto-linker function in Lumberjack especially cool. Now instead of going through all the trouble of parsing out the HTML Google returns, I can just call their functions. Much easier.
Kim and I finished our taxes this weekend. Thanks to online software programs, they weren't nearly as difficult as I thought they'd be. The only real hiccup is when the program decided that scholarship money I was paid in Florida should be taxed by the State of Indiana. Yeah, right. Instead, Kim used Indiana's own program for that part. Indiana has all sorts of strange rules, for example, they actually expect you to pay sales tax on items you purchase from out of state. I'm pretty sure that violates the "interstate commerce" clause of the U.S. Constitution.