No child left unmedicated
I've seen a lot of articles on this piece of legislation, and I can't believe that President Bush, supposedly a man for "less government" is having anything to do with this. I've sent multiple letters to my congressmen urging them not to support this, and I hope you will do the same. This is one of the most disturbing pieces of legislation I have seen in a long time.
Wednesday, November 24, 2004
Tuesday, November 23, 2004
RMS
Finally got the Calender portion of RMS site integrated with Yaf.net's security mechanism. Wasn't too bad once I figured out how the authentication scheme works, and it was definitly knowlegede I'll be using again, esp. seeing how I'm planning on taking the security test for my final MCSD exam. Speaking of which, I've been slacking on my studying for that, but I did do some today. What I learned from the Calendar was in some of the questions on the practice test I bought ($22 well spent), so I definitely feel it was time well spent figuring that stuff out.
Caught up on looking at my Deviant Art watch list, only 250 things I had to go thru...What I get for leaving it for so long. I definitly need to get a new digital camera, and start using it. Or at least start using the old one.
Deanna had to go to WV yesterday to help her dad go thru her grandfather's stuff. Her brothers girlfriend just had to go along and see what she could grab. I was hoping Frank would tell her not to go, but oh well. They brought home a bunch of stuff, some furniture, pictures, china, crystal, etc. I know that must have been hard to do, going through someones things after they die. I'm going to have to go look at some of the stuff my Mom and Kenny saved of grandma's sometime, just to look through it. That will be hard tho, even though it's been over 2 years. I try to do that kind of stuff in small steps, I'm not good at it.
Thanksgiving coming up, that should be good. We're doing lunch at Debra's house at noon, and Kim is doing something at 4pm. My mom said she doesn't know if she's going to that or not, and doesn't want to come to Debra's (I think because of someone's girlfriend, the same one that pushed herself to WV). If she doesn't go to Kim's, we will at least go by there that afternoon to see them. If she goes to Kim's, we'll drop by as well. I'll try to talk with Chuck about his artiste web application he wants to get done.
I went by Chuck's house last Friday to secure his wireless network (was wide open). Played some X-box while I was there, kicked his butt on some fighting game, it was pretty cool. David said he was going to get us one of those for Xmas, as well as the gamecube Debra is getting us for the kids. Should be fun :)
Caught up on looking at my Deviant Art watch list, only 250 things I had to go thru...What I get for leaving it for so long. I definitly need to get a new digital camera, and start using it. Or at least start using the old one.
Deanna had to go to WV yesterday to help her dad go thru her grandfather's stuff. Her brothers girlfriend just had to go along and see what she could grab. I was hoping Frank would tell her not to go, but oh well. They brought home a bunch of stuff, some furniture, pictures, china, crystal, etc. I know that must have been hard to do, going through someones things after they die. I'm going to have to go look at some of the stuff my Mom and Kenny saved of grandma's sometime, just to look through it. That will be hard tho, even though it's been over 2 years. I try to do that kind of stuff in small steps, I'm not good at it.
Thanksgiving coming up, that should be good. We're doing lunch at Debra's house at noon, and Kim is doing something at 4pm. My mom said she doesn't know if she's going to that or not, and doesn't want to come to Debra's (I think because of someone's girlfriend, the same one that pushed herself to WV). If she doesn't go to Kim's, we will at least go by there that afternoon to see them. If she goes to Kim's, we'll drop by as well. I'll try to talk with Chuck about his artiste web application he wants to get done.
I went by Chuck's house last Friday to secure his wireless network (was wide open). Played some X-box while I was there, kicked his butt on some fighting game, it was pretty cool. David said he was going to get us one of those for Xmas, as well as the gamecube Debra is getting us for the kids. Should be fun :)
Saturday, November 20, 2004
Well, still haven't been able to talk to the people down the road about buying their little piece of land that is between the property we want and the road. I need to get moving on the house building, we have been here way longer than we thought, and haven't even started yet. I think I will call the builder today and find out what the next step we need to do is, I think we can safely say that we will get the land, but even if we don't, that only affects the driveway, which I'm not worried about all that much.
Work is going ok, nTelos stuff is coming along, but slowly. Takes a while to figure out where (and if) the data I need to send to the mainframe is being kept in the web objects.
Home business is going well also, The Lockup is doing a "soft launch" (not my words) of the site this weekend with part of the functionality we have developed. Supposed to do testing and complete implementation of it next week. Thus I have been spending most of my time doing stuff for Harmony Web, and haven't been able to do much for RMS last week. I may try to get some work done on that today, all I really need to do at this point is get the security for the calendar and yaf integrated, hopefully not too difficult.
Work is going ok, nTelos stuff is coming along, but slowly. Takes a while to figure out where (and if) the data I need to send to the mainframe is being kept in the web objects.
Home business is going well also, The Lockup is doing a "soft launch" (not my words) of the site this weekend with part of the functionality we have developed. Supposed to do testing and complete implementation of it next week. Thus I have been spending most of my time doing stuff for Harmony Web, and haven't been able to do much for RMS last week. I may try to get some work done on that today, all I really need to do at this point is get the security for the calendar and yaf integrated, hopefully not too difficult.
Thursday, November 18, 2004
Nealz Nuze Today's Nuze - FairTax
FAIR TAX UPDATE
Boortz is trying to push the FairTax plan with a book, I hope it works. It'd be wonderful to actually keep the money I earn. That, along with being able to control at least part of my social security pyramid scheme would put Bush down as one of the greats in my book.
Business is going ok, Harmony Web is having issues with the service provider that The LockUp is using to provide them with web services. Sombody keeps screwing them up. There was supposed to be a soft launch of the new services at TLU this weekend, hopefully that will still go, but unknown at this point.
I put part of RMS's stuff live for them last Friday, now I have to work on plugging into yaf.net's security system so the calendaring piece will have some, right now anyone that knows the URL can do anything to the calendar, but it's not exposed on the web site anywhere. Dunno about the way YAF is doing security, wish they had used something standard for it, but they are rolling their own. Hopefully I won't have to make changes on that side, hate to do that and then not be able to upgraded in pieces.
Haven't visited DeviantArt in a while, probably have a couple hundred messages to look at. Ugh.
Thanksgiving is looking good. Going to be having lunch at Debra's at 12, then dinner at Kim's at 4, so will get to see both families.
Debra got basically laid off this week, the are making her an as needed employee, I think in some effort to not have to pay unemployment. Whatever, stupid people don't realize she can still collect reduction of hours to 0 benefits. She'll probably look for something part-time locally, maybe the Wal-Mart in C'ville or something like that. She also now has a reason to push on making Kris either buy the house, or get out so she can sell it. Kris has been screwing with them on that for some time.
I gotta get my ass moving on the building process, I looked up a lawyer in Louisa yesterday, hope to call him today and find out what I need to do next. Also need to talk with Dr. Burton about getting my taxes done for my business, and how I should structure that.
Boortz is trying to push the FairTax plan with a book, I hope it works. It'd be wonderful to actually keep the money I earn. That, along with being able to control at least part of my social security pyramid scheme would put Bush down as one of the greats in my book.
Business is going ok, Harmony Web is having issues with the service provider that The LockUp is using to provide them with web services. Sombody keeps screwing them up. There was supposed to be a soft launch of the new services at TLU this weekend, hopefully that will still go, but unknown at this point.
I put part of RMS's stuff live for them last Friday, now I have to work on plugging into yaf.net's security system so the calendaring piece will have some, right now anyone that knows the URL can do anything to the calendar, but it's not exposed on the web site anywhere. Dunno about the way YAF is doing security, wish they had used something standard for it, but they are rolling their own. Hopefully I won't have to make changes on that side, hate to do that and then not be able to upgraded in pieces.
Haven't visited DeviantArt in a while, probably have a couple hundred messages to look at. Ugh.
Thanksgiving is looking good. Going to be having lunch at Debra's at 12, then dinner at Kim's at 4, so will get to see both families.
Debra got basically laid off this week, the are making her an as needed employee, I think in some effort to not have to pay unemployment. Whatever, stupid people don't realize she can still collect reduction of hours to 0 benefits. She'll probably look for something part-time locally, maybe the Wal-Mart in C'ville or something like that. She also now has a reason to push on making Kris either buy the house, or get out so she can sell it. Kris has been screwing with them on that for some time.
I gotta get my ass moving on the building process, I looked up a lawyer in Louisa yesterday, hope to call him today and find out what I need to do next. Also need to talk with Dr. Burton about getting my taxes done for my business, and how I should structure that.
Wednesday, November 10, 2004
MCSD
Well, I've started studying for the last test I need to take to get my MCSD.Net certification. I've taken everything but an elective, I've deceided to take the 70-330 exam (Security for VB.Net). I've always had a thing for security, so I thought I'd put it to the test. I did a couple of gigs for Whitlock on penetration testing of web sites; not quite the same as developing secure applications, but I think the same pricipals apply.
Business has slowed down, Derivia seems to be doing stuff themselves, which is ok with me for now, I have a lot to do for RMS, and still getting some work from Harmony Web. I really like the guy I've been doing work for from Harmony Web, seems really nice, and very understanding. Just had his second child about 2 months ago. If I ever go out to Chicago (doubtful), I'll have to drop by for a visit. Still haven't taken any time to try and make more contacts through LinkedIn, I will probably do that once I get a good chunk of RMS done, don't want to run out of work.
Kids are doing well, they have started roller-skating lessons, my parents are taking them on Saturday. This is a good thing, they will be getting some needed exercise. They don't get much chance to go outside now, they only have an hour before it gets dark when they get home from school. I'm going to try to get them involved in some sports this spring, depending on how things go with nTelos, and what hours I'm working, etc. Hopefully I'll be working full time for nTelos, and have pretty flexable about when I work, as long as I get at least 40/week in. Sometimes I wish for times like when I was a kid, and we could wander all over the neighborhood without worrying about getting kidnapped or worse. Times sure have changed. I sound like an old man :P
Business has slowed down, Derivia seems to be doing stuff themselves, which is ok with me for now, I have a lot to do for RMS, and still getting some work from Harmony Web. I really like the guy I've been doing work for from Harmony Web, seems really nice, and very understanding. Just had his second child about 2 months ago. If I ever go out to Chicago (doubtful), I'll have to drop by for a visit. Still haven't taken any time to try and make more contacts through LinkedIn, I will probably do that once I get a good chunk of RMS done, don't want to run out of work.
Kids are doing well, they have started roller-skating lessons, my parents are taking them on Saturday. This is a good thing, they will be getting some needed exercise. They don't get much chance to go outside now, they only have an hour before it gets dark when they get home from school. I'm going to try to get them involved in some sports this spring, depending on how things go with nTelos, and what hours I'm working, etc. Hopefully I'll be working full time for nTelos, and have pretty flexable about when I work, as long as I get at least 40/week in. Sometimes I wish for times like when I was a kid, and we could wander all over the neighborhood without worrying about getting kidnapped or worse. Times sure have changed. I sound like an old man :P
Thursday, November 04, 2004
Voting
Bush won! Yay! I went to vote early in the morning, and noticed that there was really nothing to prevent someone from just walking in and voting. They had the person there checking to see if you were registered, but they didn't give you a ticket to give to the person standing at the polling machine, so all you would have had to do is just get in line. Kinda worrisome.
Almost finished with the calendar and messaging part of RMS web site. I need to look to find a better way of doing role-based security than what I am doing. I am somewhat limited as to what I can do tho, as I am integrating 2 pre-written pieces. Using the roles from YAF message board, and a calendar I got from someone I used to work with. Once I get something out and working for RMS, I'm going to take a look at Microsoft's Authorization and Profile application block to see what I can do with that.
I need to get back on Linked-in and try to get some more customer contacts. I have about 15 people, but none have any work. Not sure how linked-in is going to pan out on stuff like that. I should also pay more attention to the neon guild mailing list to see if there is anything there that might lead to some business.
The nTelos project is going ok, but I have found that we are more behind schedule than I thought we were at the beginning of October. There is a piece at the end of the process that builds a string to send to a middleware product that executes the commands in the string on the mainframe, and I have found that there is a lot that is only stubbed out in the intermediary steps to get to that point. I have learned quite a bit about Microsoft's UIP application block (a MVS implementation), which is good. Seems to be a good framework for anything that needs to follow a series of steps. Will have to look at RMS to see if there will be any part of their site that can use something like that.
Almost finished with the calendar and messaging part of RMS web site. I need to look to find a better way of doing role-based security than what I am doing. I am somewhat limited as to what I can do tho, as I am integrating 2 pre-written pieces. Using the roles from YAF message board, and a calendar I got from someone I used to work with. Once I get something out and working for RMS, I'm going to take a look at Microsoft's Authorization and Profile application block to see what I can do with that.
I need to get back on Linked-in and try to get some more customer contacts. I have about 15 people, but none have any work. Not sure how linked-in is going to pan out on stuff like that. I should also pay more attention to the neon guild mailing list to see if there is anything there that might lead to some business.
The nTelos project is going ok, but I have found that we are more behind schedule than I thought we were at the beginning of October. There is a piece at the end of the process that builds a string to send to a middleware product that executes the commands in the string on the mainframe, and I have found that there is a lot that is only stubbed out in the intermediary steps to get to that point. I have learned quite a bit about Microsoft's UIP application block (a MVS implementation), which is good. Seems to be a good framework for anything that needs to follow a series of steps. Will have to look at RMS to see if there will be any part of their site that can use something like that.
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