Not Done Yet Posted June 29, 2003 at 12:00 am

The summer is winding down. After this week, I’ll only have two more weeks of work and then back to Atlanta to start another semester at Georgia Tech on August 18th. I’ve got a few projects left that I need to begin wrapping up, which I started doing on Monday. They all involve Access applications that have either been converted from Access 97 to Access 2002 and/or adding new features.

One of the applications needed to be transitioned from a frontend/backend model to a single frontend that connects to a SQL server database. It has probably been the most educational project I have taken on this summer. I now know a lot more about the structure of a SQL database and the SQL language in general. I can feel more confident when I’m ready to undertake some SQL projects of my own. My aunt suggested an application to track my CD and DVD collections and wishlists. I think that would be a good place to start.

On the home front, I’ve been absorbed either playing games (Diablo II), watching TV (Cartoon Network), or watching DVDs (Spirited Away, “Chobits”). Spirited Away is nothing short of a masterpiece and I highly recommend it to any fan of good entertainment. I purchased the DVDs for a couple of Miyazaki’s other films but I haven’t gotten around to watching them yet.

I also got out to see Pirates of the Caribbean and the new Tomb Raider movie. Of the two, Pirates was better but both were entertaining. Tomb Raider was, however, an unfortunate example of the distressing trend of theatres seeking to blast you out of your seat. I caught myself wishing I had brought a pair of earplugs.