Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
~ Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton
12.29.2005
Walt Whitman
12.25.2005
Organized Chaos - Day Two
On another note, my kids woke me up about 6:45am this morning to inform anyone with interest that Santa had came & went - and in fact, he did leave gifts. Whew...after all that talk about someone getting coal this year it was a big relief when I got up to find that Colton got a new 20" flat screen to play his PS2 games on - and a Gameboy to play them in the truck. And Tana - our newly discovered performer in the family - got a karaoke machine with a wireless mic - and of course what kind of performer would she be without a cell phone...LOL
All in all, it went well. They loved their gifts and Jeff & I entertained his family while waiting on a new baked chicken recipe to get done. (While praying that it was actually eatable.) Nobody refused to eat and everyone left without getting sick, so I'm assuming they liked it & will come back next year.
I could go on and on about all the nerd stuff I've been reading up on this weekend when I could find 5 minutes and a dark corner. But I'll spare you - but it's mostly because I ran into one of my former college instructors at the sushi bar Friday and was able to communicate geek stuff with him for a few minutes. Computer nerds need friends too - believe it or not...LMAO.
Okay, I'll shut up for now...
12.19.2005
Christmas Songs for the Psychiatrically Challenged
Multiple Personality Disorder --- We Three Queens Disoriented Are
Amnesia --- I Don't Know if I'll be Home for Christmas
Narcissistic --- Hark the Herald Angels Sing About Me
Manic --- Deck the Halls and Walls and House and Lawn and Streets andStores and Office and Town and Cars and Buses and Trucks and Trees andFire Hydrants and ...
Paranoid --- Santa Claus is Coming to Get Me
Borderline Personality Disorder --- Thoughts of Roasting on an Open Fire
Personality Disorder --- You Better Watch Out, I'm Gonna Cry, I'mGonna Pout, Maybe I'll tell You Why
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder ---Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, JingleBells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, JingleBells, Jingle Bells ...
Agoraphobia --- I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day But Wouldn't Leave My House
Autistic --- Jingle Bell Rock and Rock and Rock and Rock ...
Senile Dementia --- Walking in a Winter Wonderland Miles From My House in My Slippers and Robe
Oppositional Defiant Disorder --- I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus So I Burned Down the House
Social Anxiety Disorder --- Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas While I Sit Here and Hyperventilate
12.09.2005
ColdFusion, Flex, LiveCycle
12.08.2005
Why?
Why do banks charge a fee on "insufficient funds" when they know there is not enough?
Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check when you say the paint is wet?
Why doesn't glue stick to the bottle it comes in?
Why do they use sterilized needles for death by lethal injection?
Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard?
Why does Superman stop bullets with his chest, but ducks when you throw a revolver at him?
Why do Kamikaze pilots wear helmets?
Whose idea was it to put an "S" in the word "lisp"?
If people evolved from apes, why are there still apes?
Why is it that no matter what color bubble bath you use the bubbles are always white?
Is there! ever a day that mattresses are not on sale?
Why do people constantly return to the refrigerator with hopes that something new to eat will have materialized?
Why do people keep running over a string a dozen times with their vacuum cleaner, then reach down, pick it up, examine it, then put it down to give the vacuum one more chance?
Why is it that no plastic bag will open from the end you first try?
How do those dead bugs get into those enclosed light fixtures?
When we are in the supermarket and someone rams our ankle with a shopping cart then apologizes for doing so, why do we say, "It's all right?" Well, it isn't all right so why don't we say, "That hurt, you stupid idiot?"
Why is it that whenever you attempt to catch something that's falling off the table you always manage to knock something else over?
In winter why do we try to keep the house as warm as it was in! summer when we complained about the heat?
How come you never hear father-in-law jokes?
If at first you don't succeed, shouldn't you try doing it like your wife told you to do it?
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four persons is suffering from some sort of mental illness. Think of your three best friends, if they're okay, then it's you......
12.05.2005
Goodbye Macromedia
12.02.2005
Computer Nerd from Way Back
When I was about 9 years old I owned my first computer - a Timex Sinclair 1000:
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I bought my next computer when I was 11 or 12 and it was a Commodore 16:
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After hunting & pecking out millions of lines of code out of the Commodore magazine I got each month I got tired of it. Well, the truth is I got a little older and there were other things that held my interest at that point. LOL When I was about 16 the Windows platform was just starting to develop and that's when I got back into computers. The rest is history...
12.01.2005
Migrating from CF5 to CFMX 7
http://www.macromedia.com/software/coldfusion/demos/
At that link you'll find a six part series that you can review within a hour or so and get more of an idea of how fascinating the new version of CF really is. Take note on the ease of creating forms and the code reuse functionality made possible by CFC's.
I'll post from time to time to let you know how it goes and what problems I run into along the way. If you've tackled the task of moving a site from v5 to v7 I'd love to hear from you. Or if you just have a suggestion on organizing during the planning stage I'm still working on at this point. Whatever...suggestions are always welcome!