A guy that I went to college with set out on a mission at the beginning of this year. He launched a blog tracking his attempts to get Kevin Costner to photograph of himself reading said blog.

He wrote post after post after post for months covering all things Costner. And in just about every one, he poked, prodded, and taunted Kevin Costner to take a simple picture. If this sounds insane, that’s because it is.

But somehow last week his plan worked. He got his picture of Costner.

I have no idea what this proves. But I’m sure that Evan Kessler is a very happy man.

There is an open web developer position on my team at the Wharton School in Philadelphia, PA.

We’re a ColdFusion/Flex shop with an emphasis on rapid development. But experience working with other web platforms such as PHP, .NET, Java, Ruby, etc. will apply. It’s a junior level position. If you are strong on the concepts of web development, we are willing to help you learn a new language. I would also consider somebody who has mostly front-end experience that wants to dig a little deeper into the programming side of things.

If this sounds like something you’d be interested in, drop an email to dkonopka@wharton.upenn.edu and I can give you more details.

It’s been a wild summer so far. Here are just a few of the changes that have unfolded.

I wrote a book… It’s a tech book about creating desktop gadgets for Windows Vista aimed at power users who want to wade into creating their own gadgets. It’s due for release on October 29th. The next great American novel it is not. But it is a book and it has my name on it. So that’s a little bit exciting. The folks at Wiley (the publisher) helped guide me along throughout the process. And although I enjoyed the process, I am also really glad to be done and have some free time back in my life again.

I changed jobs… But I’m still at Wharton. At the beginning of the summer, my boss Terry Ryan moved on to another position within the school. I moved into his position managing the school’s ColdFusion environment. I still get to do a mix of application development, some light server administration, and hopefully more community development amongst the distributed developers scattered throughout the school.

I merged blogs… The whole tech/personal division on this site was not working. So I merged the two streams back into one site. That’s one less WordPress install to worry about.