I have a brand new job coming in a few days in washington,dc at Symplicity with my friend BP. I’m going to be a PHP developer working with from what i hear a great framework. This has made me spend sometime polishing up my PHP skills since i haven’t been doing much coding with PHP but with Ruby and Python. So far it has been pretty easy to polish them up. Like the old saying just like riding a bike.
We finally got some green grass here in maine, it almost summer and I can’t wait for the swimming, fishing and camping this year with my wife.
Well i have been working two jobs enorder to try to get a head right now. Working two jobs has been making me think about going back to school for Electrical and Computer Engineering double major here in maine. I have been looking at the courses and they all seem pretty interresting. This means I would have to give up one of my jobs. The Problem is I enjoy both my jobs. I telecommute for a Denfense Contractor at night and durring the day I work for a local teleco/IT support company. Both are challenging and both are interesting. So the choice is hard. The local job I would have to drop to part time enorder to go to school if I was to keep it. The reason I’m rethinking my education is because my IT degree and in field work that I’m doing now really isn’t using it and its pretty boring most of the time. IT stuff is pretty much the same thing every day over and over, fixing laptops,desktops, servers and printers. So I think I’ll take some ECE classes and see how I like it.
I went to boston a few weeks ago to meet up with lucas and BP. We had a blast in boston for the weekend. We went to The People Republic, a Brizallian BBQ place where the girl that was our waitress was drop dead hot. We even did the Sam Adams tour was cool because we all got glasses from the tasting. It was cool to be in the boston pubs when the soxs are playing becuase it becomes alive and its like if everyone in the bar is cheering for the same thing. So that I believe brings us up to date.
Its been a while since i posted something on my site. So i’m going to make a list and cover each one in as much detail as I can.
Ok, My job is interesting I have to deal with some intresting problems and not so cool things. I have been working my butt off doing things at my job that isn’t Code Releated and I have to say I’m starting to miss coding a lot. Its been so long since the last time I have to code anything I have started to forget some of the simple things that I knew like the back of my hand. Other then missing coding, I have been doing a lot of stuff with Wireless Networks at work and Phone Systems I’m starting to get envoled with.
I might have the chance to work with AGIS,Inc and there LifeRing Application. Due to NDA’s and Confinidentuality agreements I can’t say much other then I have the chance to build a web interface for anyliss for it and the GOV. So thats all i can into for detail.
I came down with pneumonia this pass weekend and have been laid up on the couch since friday night. Which sucks because I hate not working when I know I can. I thought it was kinda odd, since this past friday we start bowling in a league under the name “The 4 Horse Men”.
I’m also working on a windows mobile application for tracking employees from there mobile device. I have been playing with trackme which is a applicaiton that basically does what I want with a little more. Except its a massive eater of battery on my HTC Titan Phone and the User can close the application. So Idea behind the one I’m writing runs a service in the background and stores 5 positions in a xml file then makes a data connection and pushes them to a database server then disconnects the phone from the data connection. This would make it a little more efficent on battery power. I’m working on a web interface for it that uses google maps to display and analize the data points.
So thats where I’m at this Point. I’m looking for more programming projects. Due to the Fact I miss it to much. My brain doesn’t feel like its getting much use doing IT work with any Programming for it to do. Nap time to so I can go to work tomorrow.
Ok, let me be frank, I’m not much of a windows user anymore like I was pre-2005. I attend to use Unix or Linux for all my needs. My new job has required me to brush off my windows skills and rehone them. All I have to say is after dealing with Windows Server 2008 and Exchange 2007. Microsoft why the Hell can’t you leave layouts and way programs work? Exchange 2007 and Server 2008 panels and settings are so confusing by them making it what they call simple. I have to say windows 2003 and exchange 2003 were perfect in the layout and access policy. PLEASE Microsoft stop changing the server UI and compents of the UI for Server Applications. It feels like I’m speaking english and your speaking some screwed up language. I spend more time searching for shit then anything else.
End of my Rant! improvements to software is good as long as the user doesn’t feel like they have to learn something totally new.
Well for the past week I have been at my new job work my tail off. For starters on the phone fixing a Exchange server with microsoft to fix a domain rename and get exchange to like it. Also this week, I worked on a Cisco System Router and ASA 5505. I have to say the Cisco ASA’s rock I couldn’t believe how easy it was to setup and deploy. The company I work does a lot of high WIFI networking and i have to its interesting. I have to say so far its been interesting. It will be interesting to see what next week will bring to the table. We do a lot with phone systems using VOIP so it will be interesting to see when I get into the phone stuff, but I’m hoping that i just stay in the networking part with a main focus in the security aspect of things to be honest. I also got the chance to learn on the spot how to terminate fiber multimode.
Also my buddy jeremy has introduced me to a lot of new music of the past couple of months and I have to say his latest find is awesome. The band is call the Old Crow Medicine Show below is a video clip of it. Its a got a turn of the century sound to them.
Old Crow Medicine Show — Wagon Wheel
Well i have been busy studying for the umpire exam for slow pitch softball. What brings this on you ask? Well because of my cousin matt I have been playing softball all summer long. I’m a ok player but I think I would be a better manager or umpire. So I was talking to one of the umpires about how to be coming a umpire. So Neal told me to talk to Donnie who is the Chief Umpire for our league. At the last game we add Donnie gave me the rule book and told me where to go on the USSSA website to get the exam and casebook. I didn’t realize how much it was to umpiring to make sure that you stay fair to everyone. I personally believe the casebook is better study guide then the dam book. So I hope soon I’ll be a official USSSA umpire for slow pitch softball.
Ok its that time of year again. I can’t believe I’m going to be 25 this year. So I figure I would put up a another wishlist for my birthday of a few things I would kill to have for my birthday this year. Not that anyone ever pay’s attention to these.
Thats all I can think of what I would kill for my birthday this year.
Ok I was browsing facebook today and found out that a student at the University of Maine at Farmington made a public art project that put about 5 large American Flags on the floor of a hallway. This is extremely wrong in so many moral ways by any american towards those who fought to protect what that piece of cloth represents. After doing some research I found to Supreme Court Rulings on this topic. First one from the case Halter v. Nebraska (1907):
The First U.S. Supreme Court Ruling on Flag Desecration (1907): Most early flag desecration statutes prohibited marking or otherwise defacing a flag design, using the flag in commercial advertising, and showing “contempt” for flag in any way–by publicly burning, trampling on it, spitting on it, or otherwise showing a lack of respect for it. In Halter v. Nebraska (1907), the U.S. Supreme Court upheld these statutes as constitutional.
This same topic came back up again in 1968 where a Federal Law was passed that states the following:
Federal Flag Desecration Law (1968): In 1968, Congress passed the Federal Flag Desecration Law in response to a Central Park event in which peace activists burned American flags in protest against the Vietnam War. The law banned any display of “contempt” directed against the flag, but did not address the other issues dealt with by state flag desecration laws
Disgrace of The American Flag at UMF
Ok, The Dean and board members, WHO are you to lecture a man you fought for your rights so you can have that job that is completely useless. If anything you should be getting down and kissing that mans feet and saying thank you and not yelling at him about what the American Flag stands for. You also shouldn’t be mocking that man.
You claim this is art, How is this art? This isn’t art also how you can that veterans and soldiers aren’t fighting for the flag? We are fighting for ideals behind the flag, which is fight for the symbol of the American flag and the ideology behind it. With out our founding fathers who fought for these rights which this flag represents to Americans. Some of us have this in deepest beliefs. Most veterans stand on this idea “A man with a history of duty and patriotism. Not his lines, but his cores beliefs. Some people don’t know what to do when their belief system collapses.” The Veterans don’t just believe on the outside what they fought for is just a idea that is was in still upon them from some book. See what they are fighting for they believe in to the deepest core of them. When they are disrespected in the ways that they were at the University of Maine at Farmington was not right nor will it ever be right.
The artist of the display claims to be consertive republican, How is this so? No republican would every demoralize or disgrace the same country and beliefs of their countrymen. Specially of those who fought for the rights and ideas to give them the right to do so. As a fellow mainer, serviceman and republican I think this artist should make a public applogoly to all the serviceman and veterans of maine. The Dean and person that was mocking the Veteran at the display should also make a public apploylogy.
What we do isn’t just a ideology but a core belief. So please respect the veterans and servicemembers. When you see one stop and say thanks you protecting me from the evils of terrorism and evils of wars. Thanks for fighting for my rights to say what I want and giving my the ability of to not have someone telling what and where I can go and what I can go.
THANKS SERVICEMEMBERS for serving this country!
Here is a quick update on what I have been up. I have been writing a lot of python code for projects using the django web interface frame work. I have been tieing up ends here because its starting to get really close to the time when I’m finally going to be shipping out for the Army. I have made a choice about status reverses or active duty. I’m going to be going Active Duty with Ariborne Ranger option for Cavlary Scout. So i have been trying to see all my friends before the next couple of weeks is over. I’m also finally as of today back to the gym fulltime.