Stuff from life

So, writing on my blog hasn’t been required for any of my classes this semester, so I haven’t taken the time to write. I have been quite busy, though. I am graduating in April, getting married in May, and starting a full time job with National Instruments in July. All of which is very exciting, and all of this also has kept me very busy.

In the mean time, I’ll keep thinking about things. I have an interesting programming problem i need to solve before too long. I created a web site for my eagle scout project years back. It was an index of cemetery records for Malheur County, Oregon. I hosted it on Geocities; however, Geocities recently shut down. Before it shut down, I went and grabbed the pages off of their server, and stuck them on my own. The site is currently hosted at http://jwhitecl.webhop.net/malheurcountyrecords/. The problem is that I don’t want to host it. The information should be made available, and there are other sites that host this kind of information. I was planning on transferring all of my information over to one of these sites, USGenWeb, but their cemetery records are in a very different format than my own. I plan on writing a script to convert the cemetery records, but this is a non-trivial transformation. I’ll post more on the details of this problem and the solution I come up with before too long. (Probably during the month of June)

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