Another moment to think....a guy that works with me died earlier this morning NEWS REPORT This is not something you can get used to, you see a person one day and they're gone the next. There's no warning....you don't see it coming...there's no billboard...no signs...just death. What will his family do? What's going to happen to his kids? Does that mean he really isn't going to be coming into work today? I mean...for real...he can't be dead, I know him....I helped him move his family into their new house. We would go to the movies in our off time...it can't be for real. Where's the guy that says "Yo Yo Yo!" whenever he walks in. Hmmmm...I don't know...you never know.

There we go!!!!

The weekend is almost upon us.....I'm looking forward to it, but I already know that I'm going to do a lot of work this weekend. I got a programming project due on monday and I need to try and work on this program for work.....ALSO...I need to get my bike legal (Title, tags,etc...) Even though its cold I'll probably still be riding...... :D *Big Cheese* I'm actually getting hype....there's a lot of stuff I plan on doing to that bike and I can't wait. Today was pretty uneventful, I spent most of the day waiting to go to work. I started watching K-Pax on TV at about 2:30 and of course I started to get into the movie right before I had to go (I was almost late to work) and then I had to miss the last 15 mins of it. That's always the worst. I just put together a new Redhat 9 box that I'm going to use as a repair box while I fix another computer that has Windows XP on it. I might even wind up putting Redhat 9 on that box if I can get the repair box to do everything I think is needed. Speaking on Linux, I called myself investing in the future welfare of the computers that are on our desks at the help desk I work at. I would definitely like to be using linux but of course there's that one software program that we need that only runs on Windows.... Remedy. As of right now there aren't any truly successful implementations of people getting Remedy to work on linux. Well one of our network admins said that he was able to do it, only he was only able to do it under Lindows. Well I guess its better than nothing so I figured I'd chime in and get him the new 4.0 version because I really hate windows NT. Well I decided to try it out for myself at home.....it sucks. So I think what needs to happen is to find another way to get remedy in Linux. Hopefully if I search long enough I'll find something.

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But let me emphasize that there are so many mor things out there like what I just talked about, I just didn't want to take up the whole page.

What is it that disturbs me?.....hmmm.....The color of this damn blog disturbs me, but that's not what I wanted to talk about. I think two things that bother me the most right now in the US are rights and technology. Of course technology rights are a big thing with me since I'm so into technology. Well what's going on and why am I disturbed? Back when the thoughts of shutting down Napster I began to develop my own opinion of what was going on. Yes, I was one of the millions downloading music from there....does it make it right? No....but I wasn't going to pay $17 for CDs that were utter crap. I had a few speeches and papers that I needed to do for my communications and english classes at my college....so I wrote about Napster. I didn't sit and write about how I just wanted to download music for free forever and ever, I actually wanted to see what was going to happen down the road because of this. What I found scared the crap out of me really, it showed me that in the years to come what we wanted in regards to technological innovation was not going to occur....not because it wasn't thought up or implemented but because someone a few years back made laws that stifled that innovation before it could have even come to bloom. We go theDMCA you can see more info about it at Anti-DMCA, basically I would go to The Electronic Frontier Foundation because they have all the laws, bills that are being introduced, reintroduced....whatever. If you look at the different things that have been introduced you can just tell that these weren't made for the people in mind, in fact the people can protest till they're blue in the face but no one is listening. Does that mean stop telling? stop getting the word out against these rights infringing laws? of course not. Let's take the DMCA for example they have took upon themselves to sue everybody....businesses....individuals....anybody that has any kind of connections with P2P File Sharing, but for christ's sake they sued a 12 yr old girl and 71 yr old man...just recently they wanted to sue a 66 yr old women for $300,000,000.00 I all the zeroes in so you could see how much money that is. (The woman was a case of mistaken identity) Come on now, this is ridiculous....if it's that serious I won't even bother to buy CDs anymore, because this is sure not encouraging me to. Then you got the Copy Protected Media if you do buy CDs. Then you got Internet Censorship going on....but its going on with Google and what something like that does is basically erase whatever it is from existence. Why? because the majority of the people use google to search and if you can't find it in google you probably won't look elsewhere to find it. That's some heavy stuff, but it as well goes unnoticed by the public...then you got things that were supposed to be here to help us which could really be used against us. USA Patriot Act Even this crap with SCO and GNU/Linux is garbage the only thing that all of these issues really shows is that money talks and not everything is done FOR the people. The GNU/Linux issue is of concern to me since I like to run it myself, but the bad mouthing that Mircosfot is doing is pissing me off. I guess the hope for me there is that so many other countries are migrating to GNU/Linux that if there ever comes a time where the US just pasts some crazy law, banning Linux I'll have plenty of other places to live. Well that was my partial rant for the day....gotta go.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe - On a George Foreman Grill

Yes, you heard it right......Grilled Cookies. Now, this wasn't my idea but the results were pretty good....Especially for cookies baked on a grill. The grill shown above is not actually the one that I own, mine is a little smaller....$10 at Walmart. I wasn't really the one baking either, a co-worker of mine decided to borrow my grill.....why he had the cookies at work? dont ask. Anyways, what he did to bake his foreman cookies: He used the cookie dough sqaures they might have been Toll House, I can't remember. He also elevated the front a little to make sure the cookies didn't slide out. Since my grill was so small he sat them 3 across and left them in there for about 3 - 3 1/2 minutes. Yes, they did come out slightly burnt and funny looking....but hey he made cookies on a Foreman grill. I don't know of any health issues with this....so try at your own risk, if I get some crazy cookie disease then you know something went wrong.

I need a new car......I need a new identity with good credit so I can get a new car. *sigh* Bad credit sucks....I mean really sucks, I wish I would of new that when I was having funfunfun charging up everything under the sun with those first credit cards. It's my fault though, being hard-headed I should have listened to my parents. (Now that's a first) Anyways, I will work somethin out. My first design project for my programming class is due tomorrow and I also have to figure out when I'm going to test out of my pre-req for the class as well.......busy busy. The nice days are leaving and I don't have the title or tags for my bike...so I'll probably miss out on the last of the nice days. Don't matter I'll ride it when its freezing :) Okay, well maybe not.

Well I haven't been posting in awhile....everything is moving too fast. I've since started classes....I've since dropped classes, not because they were hard or I didn't want to take them I'm just trying to test out of them. Dealt with a retarded teacher with an ego problem and she had the nerve to say I had one after I said "I know more about computers than anyone I know" of course she threw in her...."Not more than me comment". But I don't feel like talkin about her anymore. I've even finished my motorcycle class and of course I passed.....You wanna see somethin else Check this out! It's not my actual bike, but it's the one that I bought same color, same year and everything. So even though its too cold this year, watch out cuz next year is gonna be crazy.

Thursday already.....this week is going by pretty fast, unfortunately yesterday I mistakingly thought it was my day off and about time I realized it wasn't I was about 45 mins late. Well today is actually my day off and I'll be attending my classroom portion of my BRC or motorcycle class. So today should be pretty interesting, I also received all of my information from when I submitted my paperwork for my company. It looks all official like, now I just need to talk to someone and figure out what the hell all of it means.

Slashdot | RIAA Sues 12-Year Old Girl I definitely have to say that there has to be something wrong with this......a 12 year old girl. They're even suing a 71 year old grandfather.....this is truly ridiculous.

Yea, its been a few days without a post...I guess a bunch has been going on. Somebody tried to steal my car last saturday right before I left for my reserve drill. (So that put a damper on the rest of my weekend) They tore off the lock on my passenger door and busted up my steering column....I wanted to invest in one of these airsoft BB guns. Then I'll camp out and wait for them......mwuhahaha!!! Well they didn't take anything for now, I need to buy an alarm though. Other than that drill...was drill, I had a PT test on Saturday that I'm still sore from. On Sunday we had a picnic that had me bored to tears. Yesterday, I ran around like a chicken with his head cut off and today I did absolutely nothing. Tomorrow, however is my classroom training for my motorcycle class and then this weekend we'll do the riding portion. I'm pretty excited about that, my friend was going to sell his ninja 600 to me for $1500 but of course I had already spent the money and had to let the bike slip away :( damnit. Work has been okay so far today I guess....nothing to crazy has happened. I did find some interesting things though searching on the net. Asterisk - The Open Source Linux PBX what is it you say? It's my key to not paying a damn thing for using the phone utilizing VoIP. Then I could even possibly turn over a profit if I integrate it with some other business ideas. I got to the Asterisk site via this one...Internet Telephone supported on GNU/Linux of course.

Go Here...and click on stuff Well it looks like MozillaFirebird is working for me for the blog...let's see how long it lasts.
Well I've putting in long hours trying to get the music in my car just right, I've spent quite a few dollars as well. For everyone's information, I drive a '90 Pontiac 6000 it isn't the greatest of all cars...but I don't have a car payment so its good. Well awhile ago my radio got stolen and I swore I wasn't going to put another radio in it....so I've been riding in silence for months. Well I finally broke down and bought this expensive radio that plays MP3s as well as gets satellite radio. I was going to take it back but I'm glad I didn't, since then I've gotten all new speakers in the car....3 amps...tweeters....crossovers. I have to say my car sounds very damn good now....I'm so happy, it has put the joy back in driving for me. I know I'm not finished yet so I'll keep updating about the latest stuff.
Other than working on my car I have been doing damn near nothin. I'm enrolled full-time for school and that starts on the 14th....still working on my house. I know this is a boring entry but I'll have more after my reserve drill this weekend.

Ok this is really retarded...Mozilla still does not work with my blog, I don't understand why. I haven't updated either but that's beside the point. Oh...for those people experiencing problems with their Roadrunner and MSN Messenger this is something you should look at

I do have to talk about my ventures that I'm trying to get into, maybe not right now but soon. CWN (Community Wireless Network) something like SeattleWireless.net, I would really like to do that but I would also build that into the NetShare program that Speakeasy has. So I would be able to offer those on the network internet access but to make it sweeter I would offer VoIP services so that they could make unlimited long distance calls for however much a month. I would roll it all up into a nice little plan.

Time Flys.....Had a pretty good weekend even though it rained every damn day, but it was still good. I guess I should go back to last Wed. then move forward huh. Well I got my Vonage stuff last thursday I think, and it works pretty good the only thing I had to do was plug in my ATA 186 and everything was ready to go. My one complaint is that for some reason its not forwarding my calls to my cell phone when I set it up...I'll call tech support on that one. My court date for my name change will be in November, so I'll be official now. I also registered for my classes last week, I wasn't really looking forward to registering but after I talked with my counselor I got hype. He was one of those people that will analyze you from the second he saw you. I knew what he was doing but it was cool cuz I knew he was doing it to help....and help he did. He suggested that I change my major to one that suited me a lot more instead of battling it out in some stupid Western Civ classes. He also showed me how this training that I'm getting through the Army for my CCNA and MCSE can be turned in to credit.....more than 60 hours of credit to be exact. So I'll be done with my Associates by the summer, I'll have at least 2 certs, and all my classes are cakewalk from now till then. On Sat. I helped this guy from work move and of course on the way up there my alternator dies, so he picked me up and we finished getting his stuff moved. Then afterwards I go buy an alternator and we go to hook it up, it was taking forever to get the stupid thing out then for some reason when we were putting it in this mechanic looking to bum some money drove up and asked if he could help. We let him help and he pretty much threw that alternator in with no problems, then we needed a jump start but none of us had cables. So he takes my speaker wire and makes some jumper cables out of it....I actually never knew you could do that but now I know. I will have to admit that the reason for the premature demise of my alternator has something to do with my stereo. I got a new Kenwood head unit, plus I have 2-10" subs, 1-500 Watt amp, 1-400 Watt amp, 2- new 4x6's and tweeters, plus a crossover thrown in there....oh and satellite radio. All of this in a 1990 pontiac 6000Not mine...mine is blue I'm going to make it a nice little ride to ride around in. It sounds great right now, I'm going to put some more stuff into it though...a lot more.
Continuing on with the weekend, I went to my Oma's house on Sunday and stayed there and chilled with the family all day...that was cool. Monday I did much of nothing except work on my car and watch the rain. Today did the same as yesterday but today I had to work. So that was the wrapup in a nutshell.

Well of course after I got all worked up about my new Vonage account a guy at work shows me something with a lower price....like $20 less. That sux. Of course it does basically the same thing and even has my zip code which the I currently has doesn't. I should switch over, but hell....I think I'll keep it anyways if I'm not happy with it then I'll change down the line. Other work news, I got my shiny new 450Mhz today...there's a noticeable speed difference but NT still sucks. I was given this project as well that I've basically been slacking on, it's supposed to be done by Friday so I guess I better start putting some actual work behind it. I don't know why I even said that I could do it....I guess that'll teach me.
I bought some more audio stuff for my car today and then I went looking for a new car....new car audio stuff in old funny lookin car just seems wrong. So I went looking for some new shiny paint bucket, I found a couple and then I even tried to find out if I could get financing. Of course it came back denied because of my wonderful credit history but oddly enough I can go in for a home loan and get approved a lot easier....I don't understand. What else happened? The weather sucks....it was raining like crazy today and I happened to get stuck in it, but I felt better because I was carrying a bunch of audio equipment. Well off to work...

For some odd reason blogger is no longer working with Mozilla 1.4b or whatever I have, either I'll update or continue to complain about it...whichever is easier. Well....do I feel better today? somewhat. I still feel like I have sent things off in a bad direction for everyone. Enough of that though, interestingly enough I had a pretty good day at work so far...I'm not really as bored as I have been on other days, great start. I did talk to one of our Network Admin guys about my computer, (a Cyrix 250Mhz) it runs like crap so I sent in a ticket and he said he would hook me up with a new one...well semi new. (400 Mhz) I also recommended getting rid of our two computers (Windows NT & HP-UX) and just having one....one with Linux on it of course. The guy I talked to said he actually recommended it to his boss and his boss told him to "Keep asking me" so I guess he's just looking for someone to convince him. I think I'm pretty much up to that job, the NA guy was thinking about Lindows 4.0 because he said he actually got Remedy 5.1 working on it....if he did that then that's pretty big because so far I haven't seen anybody say they have Remedy runningy on linux. So I'm gonna pickup a copy of that for about $50 then install it at work and on a test machine at home. I would also probably make up a mock network just so I can show the other higher ups some more benefits of using linux instead of the crap we have.
Another good thing I did was setup up my Vonage Account so I should get my phone next week, with a wisconsin number...hey that's big news since I live in Ohio. I'm really excited about it....I even signed up for the affiliate program. So if anybody reads this and goes with Vonage for their Broadband phone...come holla at me. They currently don't have my area code but once they do I'll have a wisconsin number as well as an Ohio number.

Well I actually had already typed something but since I was messing with the damn template, I erased it.....Arrgghhh!!! Anyways, like I was saying before I really didn't feel in the mood to post anything but I figured I might as well since this is a part of my life. Basically what happened was that I created drama for myself, but this time the stakes seemed to be a lot higher. This has to do with an ex of my and my son's mother, it wasn't anything that you might expect....well maybe a little. I created a situation to where I was lying to people again....again, because I caused a more hostile event in the past. This time wasn't like the last but like I said the stakes are much higher, I feel a lot more horrible, and the situation is not as bad as last time. It was the lies though....the little lies turned to big lies, which are turning into life changing events. I feel like I've ruined the lives and future plans of others now....I even feel like I've changed plans for my son. I just feel bad....I just wanted everyone to walk away cuz I felt that was the right solution, in some ways it was others it might not be. So .. .. .. Here I am .. .. .. What have I done?

Interesting day so far.....I've got some big things going on today, right now I'm not gonna comment on them. As soon as everything is said and done though then I'll probably talk about it. I know I'm not giving any details at this moment but be patient they're coming. I will say though that this is probably one of those turning points in peoples' lives. At this moment lies the rest of my life....different paths....different results.