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New Things Are Brewing

Dec
23

Artist at Work

I just made some changes to feeds and pushes to various areas on my two main websites to make my life a little easier. It's not going to cause anyone to change their views of reality or life in the universe as we know it.. but it will make it easier for me to synchronize my sites across the web. Now if Google+ can just get on-line with their APIs.

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News to Me

Jul
24

Washinton Post Tweet

Apparently one of my tweets was featured in a Washington Post Blog post by Elizabeth Flock. I didn't realize my tweets had such far reaching impact... grammar mistakes and all. *laughter*

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Where's My Stuff?

Jul
08

So, I ordered something the other day and it was scheduled to be delivered two days later. I received notice it was delayed from some odd reason; fortunately it wasn't anything which mattered all that much, but thanks to UPS tracking page it was easy to see why it didn't arrive on time. Amusingly it hit the same distribution center twice, and went to two other states that in no way should have been part of the journey to my house:

Date/Time Activity Location
07/08/2011 07:43:00 OUT FOR DELIVERY[I] URBANA, IL, US
07/08/2011 06:00:00 ARRIVAL SCAN[I] URBANA, IL, US
07/08/2011 03:09:00 DEPARTURE SCAN[I] HODGKINS, IL, US
07/07/2011 23:52:00 ARRIVAL SCAN[I] HODGKINS, IL, US
07/07/2011 22:49:00 DEPARTURE SCAN[I] CHICAGO, IL, US
07/07/2011 19:48:00 LOCATION SCAN[I] CHICAGO, IL, US
07/07/2011 15:14:00 ARRIVAL SCAN[I] CHICAGO, IL, US
07/07/2011 14:37:00 DEPARTURE SCAN[I] HODGKINS, IN, US
07/07/2011 12:05:00 ARRIVAL SCAN[I] HODGKINS, IN, US
07/07/2011 08:55:00 DEPARTURE SCAN[I] MAUMEE, OH, US
07/07/2011 05:44:00 ARRIVAL SCAN[I] MAUMEE, OH, US
07/07/2011 02:32:00 DEPARTURE SCAN[I] COLUMBUS, OH, US
07/06/2011 21:37:00 LOCATION SCAN[I] COLUMBUS, OH, US
07/06/2011 18:57:00 UNLOAD SCAN[I] HODGKINS, IL, US
07/06/2011 11:26:00 ARRIVAL SCAN[I] HODGKINS, IL, US
07/05/2011 22:07:00 DEPARTURE SCAN[I] MEMPHIS, TN, US
07/05/2011 11:58:00 ORIGIN SCAN[I] MEMPHIS, TN, US
07/04/2011 00:04:44 BILLING INFORMATION RECEIVED[M]

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My Most Recent Scam E-mail

Jun
28

The latest 419 Scam E-mail I received. It looks like they are moving their story from Nigeria to Egypt:

"I NEED YOUR TRUST..
 
Hello,
 
Good Day To You, My Name Is Mrs Anas Ezz, I am The Wife Of Former Egyptian   Information Minister And State Broadcasting Chief Of  The Depuse  President Hosni Mubarak, I am Seeking Your Help To Assist Me In Securing A Deposite Which My Husband Who is Also The Owner Of Ezz Steel and Ezz Groupe have With A Bank In Cotonou Benin Republic  In West Africa Which Is In Amount Of 9.000.000.00, ( Nine Million Dollars).
 
Since The Fall Of This Gorverment, i have been Under House Arrest with My Kids  And All My Husbands Business And Family  Accounts Has Been Confistigated By This New Gorverment As We Are  not Allowed To Move Out Or Travell Out From My Country Untill Everything is Calm, But This Above Fund Which My Husband Told Me Before He Went Into Prison No One Knows About it and it is the future of Our family.

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Migration Completed (sort of)

Jun
09

Shocking Job

Last night I migrated Wislander.com from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7 to provide better stability and accessibility. I will be tweaking it more down the road, but all of the articles and postings are now available. I did not migrate any of the user accounts because very few were actually used on the previous iteration. So if you want to have an account on the site, you will need to create a new one.

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If You Died Today

Dec
03

Goofy Grim Reaper

I hear so many people talk about regrets and would a, could a, should a moments in their lives. What is odd about the times where I hear these regrets mentioned, they are normally around times of little importance in the scheme of things. Such as "You didn't order the large piece of pie? You are going to regret that later." Or, "You didn't download the latest album on the day that it came out, you are going to regret that." Or "I really regret not going to the party last night, everybody was there."

When you are laying on your deathbed, these will probably not be moments you will look back upon with regret. In fact these will be moments you probably will not remember next week, or next year. In fact there are very few things like that you will ever really look back on with regret. Although it would be amusing to hear. "In my life, my greatest regret was not buying that silk tie I saw on sale that one day back in 2010.. gasp.. sigh."

But what about the things you will actually regret? I was thinking about this the other day when I heard a Doctor on TV talking about different ways to treat depression and other stress related illnesses. What they never discussed was making small changes, everything revolved around medications and therapy. Which made me think "why am I happy and they are not, it cannot always be a physiological issue." Then it hit me. I have tried to live my life without acquiring regrets. Don't get me wrong, I have missed out on things in my life, but what I mean is the things I can control. Let me give you some ideas of what I mean.

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It's All Someone Else's Fault!

Oct
18

Flat Broke

So whether or not I think the government is doing a good job is beside the point. What amazes me most is the number of people, and groups, who are blaming them for the things they themselves have caused. The thing that is irritating me the most right now is the number of the people who are blaming the government for all of their personal financial problems.

I'm not saying that nobody is having financial difficulties as a direct result decisions made by the government. For a number of people who are unemployed right now it can or will result in financial turmoil; but those are not the people I am talking about.

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Don't Ask, Don't Tell

Oct
14

DontAskDontTell

Twenty-eight years ago I joined the Navy right out of high school. When I joined, the last three questions you were asked before you signed on the dotted line where as follows:

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New Freelance Job

Oct
05

Artist at Work

Over the weekend I was contacted by a company in the UK to create a logo for a new product line. I have been given the go head on this project and my rough sketch has already been approved. I will let you know more as things progress, but it is always fun to work on things like this.

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PMG Scam - Revisited.

Sep
29

scamed

It's time once again for the PMG Scammers to make their way to college campuses everywhere. What is PMG you ask? Well, that is a really good question. Mainly because they change their name almost as quickly as they cash the checks of the people that they are scamming. (Actually now they are taking credit cards instead of checks to speed things up)PMG stands for "Professional Marketing Group", "Professional Mentoring Group", "PMG Mentors", "Private Mentoring Group", "Vermotion", "Sercure Gate" and the ever popular "College Pro Painters", "PMG Painters", "Campus Pro Painters."

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