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If that ain’t strange….I don’t know what is……

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Well today was interesting to say the least. It was day 1 of 5 in where me and Andrej are basically running techsupport all by ourselves. That isn’t to say that netops isn’t there and database services is gone, just that the IS part of the whole IT conglomerate is right now occupied by two people. Jason and Bryan are gone on some men’s trip with their church where they canoe and backpack through part of Canada. Should be fun for them. Unfortuantly I won’t see them when they get back, as soon as this week is over I am headed home for all of next week. That should be fun. I know I will enjoy a) having a week off of work b)spending some time at home c) sleeping in late d)break from programming.

Speaking of which, I am pretty much taking a break from that for a while. Right now I am celebrating in fact. Mountain Dew and pizza. That is how I am celebrating, just like any old party that you would have in high school.

It feels so weird not having to do any code tonight. It’s almost as though I I have nothign left to do in the world….

Just kidding with ya. I have a lot of coding left to do(such as code optimizations—that will come at a later date though) but that will come later….cause tonight I am going to celebrate. Celebrate that TIMS is finally(to this point) done with for a while. Done with enough that I don’t have to constantly work on it every waking hour of every waking day. I remember when I first started on it and I had no idea how to do what I was doing. Now. I could probably recode it in my sleep, although I would need to relook up the snmp references on what variable kept the location for the pages printed in the printer…..

Wow……

I ramble don’t I?

You can say yes…….come on…say it……..say IT………..

On completly other note, this article I just read is extremly crazy and scary Scientest bring dog back to life…..

Think about the implications of this for a moment if you will. Ok, granted it is cool and has a lot of potential in the scientific and medical community……but think of how it can easily be misused and abused by those who are a) rich and b) powerful c) corrupt (funny isn’t it how everything that is basically good is abused by the rich and powerful or corrupt)

Personally, I have mixed feelings on this. Yeah it would be cool to be able to save someone from dying when they are still pretty young(good—why I would be for it), but with this technology, people could do that whole cyrogenics fad all over again and keep themselves essentially frozen for a long time……trying to cheat death—to have “another shot” at life as they say……….

Why are we as a society afraid to die? Why do we, whenever we get the chance, take it upon ourselves to go and try to play God?

Why?

We are afraid of death. The one thing that our entire life is geared toward is finding a way to cheat and overcome death. We don’t want to face it head on. Look, we do everything that we can to make us look/feel/imagine/think/dream/etc…(you get the point) to everyone else that we are in fact younger. We can’t come to the truth and realization that we are getting older and that eventually we will die. We try to fill our time and direct our heart’s passions to other things, things that will fulfill us in the hear and now. We, as a society, don’t think about the future. We think about what can I do now that will satisfy me now that will keep me happy now. Its all about now. And when we eventually do get old and grey, and the nows start becoming less sure of themselves, we start to question what do we have to do to ensure that tomorrow we will have another now. We arn’t happy in our lives, in fact, we are the complete opposte. We are completly misserable with our existence. So we try to go out and fill our lives up with everything else. A big stereo, a nice car, 5 ipods, three computers, etc, etc….. And then we try to do the ultimate thing to have as many nows as possible, we try to cheat death with any means shape or form possible….

Don’t get me wrong, I think there can be a lot of good that comes out of this research(find a way to “freeze” someone while performing long surgery on them to keep them alive and reduce the chances of damage to their system) but there is always the bad that comes out of it that can be scary.

Now as soon as I see the first hospital with a lightning rod on it….I’m out of here……

Man…I ramble…..

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Call me lazy all ya want…….

I’m waiting……..

I just don’t wanna program a web blog right now. I got TIMS to take care of, so I am being lazy and using utilities to make blogging even easier. My newest tool(w.bloggar v 4.0) allows me to blog from windows without having to sign into blogger. Ah, the beauty of it. I like it.

BUT WHAT ABOUT PROGRAMING YOUR OWN AND MAKING IT SUPER SWEET AND WHAT NOT!?!

Maybe eventually I’ll get there, but not while I am currently maintain TIMS…..Speaking of which….brb—have to back it up to the H:\ drive.

There…done…..well…it will be done in a few minutes….

Have to back it up once in a while, can’t risk loosing my last semesters worth of work, as well as the recent enhancements I have done to it. So what is new to it?

Dynamic graphing with dynamic scaling of the graph as well. YEAH!

It took me a while to get all the kinks worked out, such as transmitting an array through the url and having the php script process the array properly, but once I got that figured out, it was pretty easy to go through the array and display the data appropriately. Calculating the scale to use was a little pain at first, but once I got it, it was easy, just had to make enough conditions depending on the length of the number so that way it isn’t rounding down too low…………now that I am thinking of it….I should check some more numbers running it through my script I have………eh….that can wait until tomorrow…….maybe………unless I get the urge to do it tonight…………….

Well……lets see, since TIMS was originally released, what have I done differently to it…….

• Added CSS to TIMS
• Reformated the reports layout(to include CSS as well) but in general to make it more organized
• Edited the databases to account for the graphs and the data they request—such as departments and location of printers
• Added a “printer monitor” to keep track of the status of all the printers on campus
• Added a “status box” and “summary box” to some pages using css
• Added dynamic graphing capabilities with the graphic being created on the fly(see above) using —thanks Ryan for the idea for it
• A function that will run only once a week that goes out and gets the number of pages a printer has printed……it will display a link once a week that the user can push to run the function….if it has already been run for the week, then the function won’t run and won’t mess with the numbers in the database….whew that took me a couple times to figure out at first

Other than that….can’t think of anything off the top of my head right now, although if I went through the code I could come up with more……..and I am not about to do that……have spent too much time working on the code this past weekend, I don’t need to spend more time looking or working on the sucker right now. It’s backed up,working, and thats all I care about right now……

Now to think of some other cool things to add to it…….any suggestions?

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So here I am sitting in the hallway of Crawford. Just doing nothing really. Listening to music, trying to work on a comptuer(but forgetting the proper files to replace to fix it) and just being social. For once in my life. LOL. For a loner to be social has always been “interesting.”

The admin side of the network is running extremly slow right now, and I do not know why. It’s actually kinda annoying, since i wanna access it for something in particular right now. At least it will eventually load—maybe—-maybe. AUGH. Why is it so slow? I wanna know that one!

Well lets see anything else new here? Got a new chair at work. It has a mesh background.

……..Three days later……….

Man, been a while since I was able to get back to this posting. Not much is new. Almost decided to go to Gentoo(gentoo.org) linux, but decided against it. I have a working stable version of linux, and no need for me to mess with it right now. Now, a different windows manager I would like, so I am looking into that one right now. But for now, I am happy with what i have.

Well I guess I should go ahead and wrap up this post.

On a side note. Css is both great and horrible at the same time. I don’t know if I like it or hate it at this point. It can be useful, but at the same time annoying(like not printing out the background color that you gave it for alternating rows so that when a report prints out it looks HORRIBLE!)

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This is just one of those images that I like. I took it down in Florida during Spring Break while we were driving on our first day there. Ah the memories. Well I had to log in to try out the new features of Blogger. Haven’t actually logged in in a while, have been relying more or less on Drivel. Guess I will have to log in once in a while from now on so I can upload some random pictures every once in a while. (At least photoblogger makes it easy to upload photos, before you had to go through a big hassle to get it up on the site….glad they finally started to think abour the normal standard users for a chance. I do web programming and tech support all day, I don’t wanna spend my “blog” time doing more coding and hard work to get it looking decent. I got other things to do(like working on TIMS) instead of trying to code out a blog site……maybe one day when I get bored I will work on the framework I already have laid out on my test site….maybe….

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I’m trying to get my apache + php set up in linux. That is one of the last things that has kept me tied to windows at this current moment because I need these two tools to properly test/edit/configure my TIMS project………
30 mins later……..

I got it work!

I now have a fully contained php,apache,mysql setup on linux. I think I might be able to live in linux for a lot longer period of time now……

VIVA LINUX

EDIT….now…if I could get it to work with my php files….it works with the test php files :-/

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I really need a life. I spend most of my day at work and most of my time at “home” working on TIMS, and trying to add more new features to it. I seem to be able to bash about one out a day. Yesterday it was a new report which Bryan requested that TIMS be able to produce. Today its a link around the printers name in the above said report as well as in the printer monitor which brings up a new window with information specific to that printer(such as name(duh!), model number, location, and also what printer cartridges it uses) which I hope will be helpful in the future. This way we dont have to dig around through Andrew or ask Jason every ten seconds about printers to try to figure out what model the printer is, and what cartridge to use with it. We just go to the printer monitor if its running, and if not, run the Printer Inventory report. This will generate a list of all the printers either in alphabetical order of the names of the printer or in “alphabetical” order of the name of the model of the printer, whichever the user chooses(default is to do it as model in alphebetical order—now that I am thinking about that……maybe I should switch it to name….hmm…I think I might edit that tonight…..)

So when one thinks/breaths/eats only their project, are they obsessed? I think so. So I must be obsessed. WHOO HOO. I am finally obsessed about something.

But seriously, this has been a great learning experience for me. Yeah true I still have a lot left to do as far as for making this fully professional, but I got one year left to do this. I’m only human, and a one man team at that. So I plug along at it as best as I can as fast as I can, thinking of new ways to optimize the code more, make it cleaner, and other fun things like that. (What’s really fun is maintaining three versions of the code and keeping those three straight—I have the “Stable” version thats on Noah where all the fixes trickle down to eventually, I have the “Beta” version that I keep on my laptop that is essentially the same as the “Stable” but I run it on my laptop first to test it before I send it—to make sure my “bug fixes” don’t accidently introduce new bugs into the system. And then there is the straight out test version—this is the one that looks the worst of them all right now…….and hopefully I will get it all cleaned up again soon(I try to test “new” functions in their own php file to keep it as clean as possible) This is where I test the newest features of tims that I have which are incomplete.) Tims has a lot of proejcts going on right now. The current project right now that I am working on is doing dynamic graphs in TIMS. It’s possible. I have it about 3/5 of the way done. Now to just modify it how i need to………and then its all good.

Well its time to go………time to go back out into the sunshine

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Microchip Pioneer Jack Kilby Dies at 81 - Yahoo! News

So I was reading through the technology section today of Yahoo, and noticed the above article. Man, so much technology is a direct or indirect result of his work. It’s crazy to think that one person, one man could change the course of history so. Of course, when thinking through the ENTIRE history of earth, I guess it’s not as big as I first thought it was. I mean, look at what Jesus was able to accomplish in his short time here on Earth, the ramifications and impact he left/is leaving is still felt today.

Its still crazy to think though how much impact this one man has had on a lot of our lives. Your reading this blog, in part thanks to that man. If it wasn’t for him, you could be using a computer that used vacume tubes, or at least was a lot more ancient of a technology by our standards than it is today….

Wow…..

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Programming Jobs Losing Luster in U.S. - Yahoo! News

Man, and I started out as a comp sci major. Guess its a good thing that I got out of it. Mkes me wonder how much longer it will be until computer technicians are “pushed’ oversees as well……

Another day another dollar short I guess.

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I have a flickr account now. Its a great place to go and share your photos online. They give you 20 mb of bandwith a month to upload with. Not bad. Not bad at all. So without much further adu. Here is the site: Flickr

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Finally decided to getting around to post some pictures from Spring Break 2005. Ah yes…the memories of that trip. Needless to say we got just a little bit wet on this day. Decided to sit like second or third row at the shamu stadium. Yeah. Wet is the word.

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Audio blogger broke down on me today. I don’t know why either. That’s kinda sad. Oh well. Maybe eventually I will get it working again. Maybe….

UPDATE: googled around for a bit—found out audioblogger is broken for everyone, not just me…..whew…thought I did something to cause that

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Well today we were supposed to have the NAC(Northview Alliance Church) reunion. But something didn’t go right. Either we had the wrong directions wrong time or wrong date. Something. Well we got to the house, and no one was there. Literally. Sophie even went and knocked on the door and no one answered. ::sigh:: oh well. We lived, didn’t we? We took what we had taken for the reunion and went and had our own little gathering. We went to this park and had lunch there. We had pasta salad, potatoe salad, and some cheese dip(although the cheese had already started to harden it was still good) with some chips. I had my Vault to drink and Sophie and Shanon had water. All in all though, it was a good time. We enjoyed some laughs, and just some hanging out time. Its fun to be able to just relax without any worries for a little big. Well I think I am going to get going cause i got some things to take care of before the day ends…..or should I say before I go to the fire at Ben’s house. I gotta upgrade Fedora—and do some other fun things besides that—like clean out my car. Oh well. Well time to get going—-its time to finally get productive today.

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So I was kinda sick of having to get online and log into my blogger all the time to be able to post to it. So I haven’t that much. But today while looking around on Fedora 4’s list of tools available to it, I found this program. It is called Drivel. It allows me to post to my blog, without having to go to it. I sign in on the main page, and then. BAM. A text window appears which allows me to then update my blog remotly. This is kinda cool. I thought about doing my own blogging software, and might still. But for now, I am sticking with this. If I do my own stuff, something like this would be required for me to be able to switch over. I’m in too much love with it now, so I don’t know how I could leave this……

Anywhooo…..

Lets see. Anything going on today? Not really. Will be updating tonight to Fedora Core 4. Yeah, yeah. Been a while since I got the ISO’s. Just have not gotten around to actually updating my comptuer. I have been….busy. With what you might be asking? Well, yesterday and today I was doing some last minute touches to TIMS. Of course, as soon as I get done doing one touch, a new one appears and pops up its head. I love it. Well, I don’t have apache competly open to me yet in linux, so the past few days I had to live in Windows and run my apache server to test out my new/edited bits of code. I have to admit, my coding style is not the most advanced or refined out there, but it is coming along slowly(must have made Ryan cringe when he first saw it) . And as I learn new methods, I go back and see what I can do to futher refine my older code. Especially now with TIMS actually on NOAH. I will periodically have to go back and re-edit my code as need be.(like–new features, change the way one feature works, etc…) Which I don’t mind of course. But this gives me that strange opportunity to see how something works. Something that is my child, my baby. Kinda weird. Almost like a strange dread and a sense of aww and wonder at the same time. Guess I can’t have too much dread, cause fear just paralizes ya.

Well its getting that time again where I have to go, so I will catch yall later. I guess and I supose.

Adios for now.

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Wow, what to say. What to say.

This past month has been what you call interesting. I don’t know where God is leading me, or is preparing to lead me.

Then again…….

Is it me who is leading myself and not relying on God and only fooling myself into thinking that God is currently leading me?

If for a moment I could be frank(no, not Frank Burns) I would have to say that this month quite honestly just plain sucks. Sure, its summer. Weather is warm out, sun shinning, I’m working and earning some money for next school year. But I feel so distant. Ok, granted computer people arn’t known as being the most popular and outgoing people at a party and tend to be loners(sterotype…I know—but I guess I fit into that category pretty well) who would like nothing else than to just work on their computer. Granted my coworkers make the days go by fast………But this is a different type of distant. Like I’ve gone too far to find myself from how I was before. Like I’ve let myself get to this point. Just found out that my mom might have MS. No, not Microsoft, Multiple-Schlerosis(sp). Some disease which messes with the neurons. She’s still pretty young too to get something like that. Another brain disease. There are times when I almost wanna raise my fist up and just scream for hours on end because of it. Other times I get out the stress in other ways(I prefer the other ways method personally). So that means I have to keep a close eye on whats going on at home. My mom has never had the best memory in the world. She could forget something that she just talked to me about ten seconds ago, but I never thought this. I don’t know which is worse. A disease which takes away the person completly, or a disease which leaves a hollow shell of a person, leaving no mark of who they once were in them, but leaving them. i hate to think what could happen if it is in fact MS. I personally don’t think that at this time I could deal with it. It took me what…..almost 8 years to get over my dad? Something tells me this is gonna be a long next few months as tests are done. Its so crazy too. I mean, on one hand, I am thanking God that it isn’t a tumor(like they originally thought it was) and here I am going—-”but why is it this?” The original MRI the doctors did on her showed two areas of the brain(two, not one) which seem to be infected. One really large portion, the other a really small portion.

So there are two parts going on in my head right now. One is: “Trust God, He knows what He is doing.” The other is going: “What the heck is going on? Trust? What good is that?”

Two very polar thoughts from the same mind, a mind trying to come to terms and grasp it all.

I guess you can say I’m on a journey right now. A journey to refind who I am in the midst of the chaos. I didn’t dissapear. I haven’t given up my faith in God(and far be it that I will—how can I try to deny the Truth that I believe and trust in in my heart)—just putting my mind/heart to question as all people do at times. How long/hard/crazy will this be? No…..idea………….

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Note: i suck at talking on the phone

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