Franzone Family Blog

Today was Thursday (at least at the time of me writing this). Apparently in my office, Thursday is also milkshake day because the ice cream shop nearby has half off milkshakes. Ok… I’m game. And hey, it’s only right over there across the street. We can walk! Alrighty then. So today I bundled up for [...]

Today I actually started working in some of the application code for the new company (Rogers Software Development). Woohoo! Of course it always takes a little while to learn the software architecture and engineering climate of a new group and they started me out with some fairly easy tasks that I can start learning on. [...]

I worked New Year’s Eve, though it wasn’t entirely productive. I was using a really old temporary machine until they could supply me with something workable. It only had 250 Mb of RAM… translation – it was SLOW! I would click or ALT-TAB to change windows and it would literally take up to one minute [...]

The Trip Up Well, the trip up to Fairbanks, Alaska was… looooooong! I met up with the other programmer in training in Atlanta so I at least had some good geek company while hopping different flights. I even met some people in one flight that lived in Alaska and they had some good suggestions and [...]

For this installation of Countdown To Alaska I thought I’d share some interesting facts about the state. State Capital: Juneau (map) Largest City: Anchorage (map) State Population: 670,053 (2006) Population Density: 1.1/sq mi (The least densely populated state) Land Area: 663,267 sq mi Median Household Income: $57,071 USD Alaska is the largest state in the [...]