Work

Pop goes the...

I was driving to the district office today to do a small job and also help Angela get her pictures uploaded when I suddenly heard a strange scraping noise. It took me less than a second to realize I either had a flat tire and was riding the rim, or something had broken off the bottom of the car...

Jul 28, 2004 2 minute read.

Writing

Catch 22

Curiously enough, when I finished my post, I viewed it and clicked the Google Search button and it told me exactly the etymology of the phrase “Catch-22” on the very first search hit According to WordOrigins.org for the Letter C… Catch-22 This phrase, meaning a situation where one bureaucratic...

Jul 28, 2004 3 minute read.

Politics

JibJab

No, I didn’t come up with that title, my girlfriend told me about JibJab.com where there is an interesting political cartoon is currently being shown to anyone who wants to click it. In case they change their homepage, the link I just posted should go straight to the video, but be sure to visit...

Jul 28, 2004 1 minute read.

Work

VPNs and old bosses

Today I went over to the District Office to again attempt to troubleshoot the problems with their ability to log into the network through a VPN tunnel. Not seeing anything wrong with the server or the setup in the router I did the only thing logical, I printed off the page listing all the ports...

Jul 24, 2004 4 minute read.

Blogging

Busily Updating

I am working hard on trying to upgrade this blog to a newer version of the Blog:CMS software, unfortunately, this is proving to be more difficult than I would have hoped, as all the skins seem to have been messed up royally. It seems that, perhaps to make the site run faster, changing a template...

Jul 22, 2004 3 minute read.

Life

My Situation compared to a year ago

I was browsing through my archive, reading from back in the days when I updated this blog often and I found an entry a little over a year ago (July 12th, 2003) where I took a Personality Disorder test and posted my results. The end of the results had a link to take the test so I thought it would...

Jul 21, 2004 2 minute read.

Writing

Bloggie BDay

Today marks the 1 year anniversary of the day I started my blog last year, Happy Birthday blog! Also, 5 days ago was the 1 year anniversary of the day I started writing my first story, Miles Apart over on fanfiction.net. Some of you know that I am currently working on writing my first two novels....

Jul 11, 2004 1 minute read.

Event Review

Camping on the Rocks

Actually what this refers to is that last week I went with the Junior High youth group of my church to their first annual Junior High camp (called Rock Camp 2004 cause the name of the Junior High youth group is Rock). I had the wondrous joy of driving a van full of young teenagers and preteens...

Jul 09, 2004 3 minute read.

Blogging

BLOG:CMS v3.0 XE

Well, I'm changing blog systems to BLOG:CMS because Movable Type has gone commercial. I chose BLOG:CMS because it was based on Nucleus (which was open source (aka, non commercial) and has a nifty little importer feature where I can import all my blog entries from MovableType and thus.. not lose...

Jun 29, 2004 3 minute read.