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After a hiatus from the blog, I am back. Work has been ridiculously busy the past two weeks. All these damn virus warnings and patching of computers. It’s getting pretty annoying. On top of all that, we have to finish updating our labs here at the Business College before the semester starts on Thursday. We are swamped, to say the least….

I am finally done with the transfer of the site to my new host. I still have to get the e-mail stored at the old host onto my personal machine, but that will be done in due time. Now my concentration is going to be on getting ready for classes to start.

Speaking of classes, I have the most unbelievable schedule this semester. I don’t have class on Monday or Friday, just to start with. I have class Tuesday and Thursday from 1100 hours to 1700 hours, and a night class on Wednesday. This is going to be such a kickass semester.

I’ve also finished moving into the new apartment. Phil and I haven’t gotten a table and chairs yet, but overall the apartment is very nice. We have two couches, so there’s plenty of sitting room, which is a good thing. We put in another light for the kitchen, and got some shelving for the storage closet. Overall, we’re very happy with the apartment.

Well, back to work I go….Visual Studio .NET is a whore.

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Well, I’m finally moved into my new apartment. It’s pretty nice, lots of storage area. Phil hasn’t moved in yet, but I expect he’ll be down here this weekend. I can’t wait until I have the cable and internet installed. I’m practically going crazy without either one to keep me occupied.

I’m also changing hosts. So, if you see this entry, it probably means that the transfer is complete. There is nothing wrong with PHP Web Hosting, I just wanted to have a little more leeway on my account to do some things, and also to have more options for solutions. I’m now going to be with HostForWeb.com. Check them out, they seem like nice folks.

Sorry for the short entry, but lots of work to do before school starts up. Hopefully things will be getting back to normal after that. Later…

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Everything is coming to a breaking point. I went out to the bar last night….let me just say that was a bad idea. I drank too much, and I’m paying for it today. I had to spend most of my work day working on that damn Blaster virus too.

I’m moving tomorrow, and I haven’t packed a thing. I started my laundry tonight, hopefully I can finish it tomorrow. Oh, and I have to figure our if I have to transfer some money into my checking account in order to pay for the deposit and rent at the new apartment.

All in all, it has been a very stressful week. Professors are the most demanding people on earth. “I have a doctorate, so therefore I deserve your full attention when I want it.” Give me a break. It getting really hard to deal with all these professors who think they are the only ones in the whole College of Business who need help. grrrr………

I don’t know when I’ll make my next entry, since I’m moving. And I am moving to a place without internet access. I know, I know….no internet? How will I survive? I’ll figure it out. Maybe I’ll just sleep at work…that way I’ll have internet whenever I want it. Ah well, I hear the bed calling my name…it’s almost time to go to sleep.

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I have an unmeasurable hatred for Micro$oft right now. I have spent all day fixing computers at work thanks to this blaster worm that is screaming through the internet. This has got to be the worst virus attack I have ever seen.

I’m 95% positive that my machine at home is infected with it. I can’t tell right now, since I’ve been at work all day…and I’m still freaking here!!!! Bill Gates…you da’ man…interpretate “da’ man” to mean “greedy money hungry bitch.”

Now, maybe some of you are saying “Well people shouldn’t write viruses and this is all the virus writer’s fault.” Thats got what I call “a grain of truth in it.” You’ve been brainwashed by the media and Micro$oft. Would it be too much to ask Micro$oft for a secure operating system that doesn’t contain these types of issues? Maybe the public should start actually expecting software companies to put out a solid product that doesn’t constantly need updating. Personally, I’m getting fed up with Micro$oft.

They charge a ridiculous amount of money for both the operating system and the productivity suite. If you want to build a computer, it costs more to buy Windows 2000/XP and Microsoft Office than the hardware required for building the damn thing. How much does that make sense?

Screw this intellectual property and proprietary code bullshit…I want to have public review of the operating system code and the programs I run…oh…wait….I heard this Linux thing does that :-)

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Well, I had this presentation today at work, and I guess it went pretty well. I don’t know if the people listening learned anything, but I covered what needed to be covered.

Bascially, these people are going to be “Laptop Mentors,” and help acclimate incoming freshmen to the WMU computing environment. Things like registering network cards, laptop security, and username/password issues. It seemed like nearly everyone in the room knew what I was talking about already, but it never hurts to go over it again.

Last year, another person did the presentation, and it took all day long. I covered it in about 2 hours. And I don’t think I missed covering anything that he did. Granted, we did not perform the anti-virus software demo, but that only takes 10 minutes.

I could just imagine sitting in their places, listening to me talk about ipconfig and installing printers. I’d lose my farking mind.

Aside from that, today was pretty normal. I got up at the crack of dawn, so I’m really tired now. But, I had to get ready for my stellar presentation. It’s gonna be an early night for joe.

And just to make you guys happy, here’s a cool link for this entry.

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wow…I haven’t made an entry here in nearly a week. But man, it’s been one tough week. Lots of things to take care of at work, and enough personal problems to make it seem like my world is caving in. I’m behind on my cert and my distance ed course.

For those of you who have wondered why I never write about my “love life” or a significant other, I’ll explain it now. Up until last week, I was dating a great girl, who shall remain unnamed. Our relationship lasted just over two years, with lots of fun times. So why did it end, you ask? Well, we just weren’t meant to spend our lives together. You can work and work at making a relationship better, more open, and all that jazz, but if it’s not meant to be, then that’s that. At least, thats how I feel. It’s a tough decision, but deep down I think I’ve made the right choice.

Our relationship had been going through some rough times for the past couple months, so I chose to hide that side of my life from public display on this site. Apart from this entry, I probably won’t talk about it again, except maybe in vague reference.

Well, how about talking about something less heavy? I recently got an e-mail from an acquaintance, and it contained the following critique of this site…

….begin message….

Dude you did such a good job on the fraternity’s web page, but this is so much different. I have no clue what a blog is. It’s sort of hard to understand the point of this webpage except for the usual explaination which is “to express your views.”

I don’t mean to criticize, but it could use some work. I know that when I’m doing something I love, I like criticism because it helps me make my work better. Hopefully you understand and not think I’m a dick.

Peace,

******

….end message….

Considering this may be a common concern among my visitors, especially those who do not share the same joy that I do about technology, I’ll provide the following explanation.

This website is nothing more than my personal space on the web. It should not be viewed as anything more, or anything less. I use it to help learn new programming techniques, do a little writing, and provide some friends that I don’t talk to very often a chance to see what is going on in my life. My site is not meant to be a web portal, at least not right now, but who knows what it will be a couple years from now?

Also, my aquaintance mentions that I did a great job on the fraternity web site. Perhaps I did, but that is a page for consumption by many different interest groups, not a personal page that represents who I am. I do not need or want flashy graphics that are typically associated with sites that represent an organization.

Lastly, I think my aquaintance is simply looking for something that isn’t here, and maybe never will be. He said it himself: “It’s sort of hard to understand the point of this webpage except for the usual explaination which is ‘to express your views.’” That is the whole point of the site, it’s not meant to be tricky or decieving.

I said it earlier, and I’ll say it again. This site is nothing more than my personal space on the web. It should not be viewed as anything more or less.

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There hasn’t been much going on to speak about, so I thought I’d at least post some links to cool stuff. These links provided me with great joy for at least 30 seconds, sometimes all the way up to a minute.

First off, there’s a cool list of Windows processes that contains the name of and purpose for most of these background processes. If you ever wondered what “svchost” was when looking at your Task Manager, this list will tell you.

Next, we have what I would like to call the worst web page known to mankind. Two things…

1) Write in plain english so the rest of the world can understand what your trying to say

2) Flashing graphics, in the quantity exhibited on this page, can cause seizures.

Some of you may be thinking “Come on man, give her a break, she’s just trying to have fun” or “I didn’t think it was that bad.” Trying to have fun is one thing…but can’t she write so that normal people could at least read what she’s trying to have fun with? As for any other complaints, I found the following article very amusing.

Snark!!! Napster is on the way back!!! If you’ve been reading the news lately, you’ve probably heard that Napster is going to attempt a comeback with a paid subscription service. I’ll believe it when I see it, but for now we at least have this cool flash cartoon to tide us over.

These guys are freaking cool. I found the site off of fazed.net, where it was linked to the story about a Rubik’s Cube prank. They have done some pretty funny stuff, and reading the stories was extremely funny.

That’s all for now folks….have a good day!!!

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