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Had a good business trip to Deventer,NL

 

Me on the Greek Island of Corfu

1967, wasn't the best year for most but the below is funny :)

Scenario: Jack goes quail hunting before school, pulls into school
parking lot with shotgun in gun rack.

1967 - Vice principal comes over to look at Jack's shotgun. He goes
to his own car and gets his shotgun to show Jack.

2007 - School goes into lock-down, and FBI is called. Jack is
hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors
called in for

traumatized students and teachers.


Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school.
1967 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end
up best friends.

2007 - Police called. SWAT team arrives. Johnny and Mark are
arrested and charged with assault. Both are expelled even though Johnny
started it.



Scenario: Jeffrey won't be still in class, disrupts other students.
1967 - Jeffrey sent to office and given a good paddling by the
Principal. He returns to class, sits still, does not disrupt class
again.

2007 - Jeffrey is diagnosed with A. D. D. and given huge doses of
Ritalin.
Becomes a zombie. School gets extra money from State because Jeffrey has
a learning disability.



Scenario: Billy breaks a window in his neighbor's car and his dad gives
him a whipping with his belt.
1967 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to
college, and becomes a successful businessman.

2007 - Billy's dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy is placed in
foster care and joins a gang. State psychologist convinces Billy's
sister that she remembers being abused herself, their dad goes to
prison. Billy's Mom has affair with psychologist.



Scenario: Mark has a headache and brings some aspirin to school.

1967 - Mark takes aspirin in lunchroom and headache goes away.

2007 - Police called. Mark is expelled from school for drug
violations.
Car is searched for drugs and weapons.


Scenario: Pedro fails English in high school.
1967 - Pedro goes to summer school, passes English, goes to
college.

2007 - Pedro's cause is taken up by state. Newspaper articles
appear nationally explaining that teaching English as a requirement for
graduation is racist. ACLU files class action lawsuit against state
school system and Pedro's English teacher. English banned from core
curriculum. Pedro is given a diploma anyway but ends up mowing lawns for
a living because he cannot speak English.


Scenario: Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from 4th of July,
puts them in a model airplane paint bottle, blows up a fire ant hill.

1967 - Ants die.

2007 - Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Homeland Security,
and FBI called. Johnny is charged with domestic terrorism. The FBI
investigates parents; siblings are removed from home; computers are
confiscated.
Johnny's dad goes on Terror Watch List and is never allowed to fly
again.




Scenario: Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee.
He is found crying by his teacher who hugs him to comfort him.

1967 - In a short time, Johnny feels better and goes on playing.

2007 - Teacher is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her
job.
She faces three years in state prison. Johnny undergoes five years of
therapy .

 

View from hotel while in Manila, Philippines!

 

 

Parents 50th Anniversary

In India

 

 

Quite possibly the best development team in New Delhi, India!

:)

 

Beatles' mystical guru dies - CNN.com

Beatles' mystical guru dies - CNN.com

We need more people like this in the world.

W3C Opens Data on the Web with SPARQL

W3C Opens Data on the Web with SPARQL

Great minds at work!

Got this the other day, interesting...
This is weid but fun really! Only great minds can read this!!

fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too
Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.
i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs forwrad it

Building in Richmond

 

Nice shoot from my rebel Xt!

Windows Live Writer

Just downloaded the "Windows Live Writer" , to hopefully allow me to update my blog more often..looks to be a very good program.

Fault Tolerance with Open Source and JVM Clustering

Fault Tolerance with Open Source and JVM Clustering
— Many in the Open Source community (including the camps following Tomcat, Geronimo, Struts, Spring, and Hibernate) have chosen to focus on solving problems of developer efficiency and software elegance, and are sometimes forced to leave production operating characteristics such as HA (high availability)/fault tolerance and central management control for future releases. Or, in some cases, the elegance of the framework stems from its lightweight nature and thus the user community as a whole can't be made to suffer the complexities of clustering and HA for the needs of the few.

Second in the world buddy..

 

Surprise, Surprise….My new position doesn’t require me to code as much as I use to...., so I found my self answer questions from fellow developers just before work, and sometimes in the evening on “TheServerSide”..to keep my “skills” sharp!

looks like I came in second in all posters in the world this week !!!! They should give out prizes…
...Over a million people come to this site..i wonder how many "views" this profile will get now???

 


Its been a good ride! Went down to Richmond to drop off my favorite automobile to my folks!, I hope they drive it with the top down! 

Go Colts!

It Is Better To Be Alone, Than In The Wrong Company

It Is Better To Be Alone, Than In The Wrong Company

Tell me who your best friends are and I will tell you who you are. If
you run with wolves, you will learn how to howl. But, if you associate
with eagles, you will learn how to soar to great heights.

"A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by
the kind of friends he chooses." The simple but true fact of life is
that you become like those with whom you closely associate - for the
good and the bad. The less you associate with some people, the more your
life will improve. Any time you tolerate mediocrity in others, it
increases your mediocrity. An important attribute in successful people
is their impatience with negative thinking and negative acting people.

As you grow, your associates will change. Some of your friends will not
want you to go on. They will want you to stay where they are. Friends
that don't help you climb will want you to crawl. Your friends will
stretch your vision or choke your dream. Those that don't increase you
will eventually decrease you.

Consider this: Never receive counsel from unproductive people. Never
discuss your problems with someone incapable of contributing to the
solution, because those who never succeed themselves are always first to
tell you how.

Not everyone has a right to speak into your life. You are certain to
get the worst of the bargain when you exchange ideas with the wrong
person. Don't follow anyone who's not going anywhere. With some people
you spend an evening: with others you invest it.

Be careful where you stop to inquire for directions along the road of
life. Wise is the person who fortifies his life with the right
friendships.

Author unknown

 

Finally snowed in MD..! Neo didn’t like it.
(ok , I put him out there to see what he will do!)

anyway., he hissed at me when he go back in the house as if to say “Do that again and you give you a tattoo on you face while your sleeping...” 

 
At jeff and monica's house before going to dinner for birthday. 

 

Out Celebrating Mom's 70th birthday Jan. 12! 

Hercules! Hercules! Hercules! :)

Egyptian Art

 

A Christmas gift to myself(a few years ago),I will attempt to hang these up using
Hercules Hook's , they better work!

What’s with the "Pharaoh" obsession Jeryl?
All good programmers have a code name , Mine happens to be "Pharaoh"!..I’ve used the name "Pharaoh" to sign all code since the late 80s...while i sat in the basement programming in BASIC on my Tandy 2000. :). 

Mountains of Arizona

Mom with cousin Jose'

When I was at Hampton U, the plan was to move to NY, of course I landed in D.C instead�I wanted to be in the big-city where everything is fast, everything. BUT...being in DC for over 6 years now, I am starting to re-think my next move .. also conversation with a friend of mine changed my mind..
...I came across a condo in Cali, San Diego why I have been starting at for like 15 minutes?? I�m trying to imagine every morning waking up walking into my living room and seeing this review�.

Thailand Beaches | Malaysia Beaches | Vietnam Beaches | Philippines Beaches | Australia Beaches | Pacific Beaches | Hawaii Beaches | Mexico Beaches
Caribbean Beaches(3 down) | Caribbean Beach Resorts | Mauritius Beaches | South Africa Beaches | Atlantic Ocean Beaches | Brazil Beaches | Indian Ocean Beaches
Greece Beaches | Turkey Beaches | European Beaches [Mediterranean] | France Beaches | UK Beaches

Upgraded my Computer(almost 1k worth), just to play this game :).

Blog trends.

Big Ups to Cheryl :)

My Sister won Employee of the Year at her company :)..

Cheryl Cook is the 2006 National Staffing Employee of the Year. A contract employee on assignment at the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. State Department, she is the director of E-GOALS, the bureau’s online survey and performance measurement system.


Cheryl's company

made it,..notice the sky? yes it started to rain after i snapped this one!, well another 45 minutes later I finally made it back, Neo greeted me at the door with "Where is my food?.." .

almost..

Luckily ever programmer must have a laptop(cell phone to internet hookup of course.) at all times�so I got hooked up and used mapquest to figure where I needed to go�.sux to be me, because the road I needed to get to was a few miles through this�

Ah well, it is a hybrid bike�

I decided to take a sort-of short cut, back home through a street I knew existed a few years back� their has been a lot of growth in the Charles county area, so they decided to remove some streets!(I guess I did not get the memo..) ..I rode at least 40 minutes to see this sight�I had no idea which way to go..

10 miles!(technically 20miles i have to go back.

Made to Panera Bread in Wardorf , I only got beeped twice. However, I stopped by the Mall to buy some bike equipment it dawned on me suppose I have a flat! which has wireless, …anyway mapquest says it was 9miles I had to stop twice, because my legs where burning, I’m debating should I order my usual large white mocha(extra shot of course) and gain back the 300 or so calories burned on my trip up here .. Hopefully the ride back will be smooth… I know I am going to be very sore tomorrow, but no pain no gain.

Very active bike-site, given to me by the dude that sold me the bike.
http://bikeforums.net

I just brought a Marin Fairfax Performance Hybrid bike, its about 9am, I am going to ride my bike up to the bookstore and back(10miles), if u don�t see another blog-post I�m in a ditch.

final game board., check out the rook where his pawn was LOL.

However the dude on the right(black hat, white shirt) to advantage of his excitment on being focused on that side of the board....moved his rook back one a round, then
moved it to take out his pawn..which cost him the game!

see the rook where one of his pawns once was..


LESSON LEARNED TODAY: "Don't talk about it, just do it!"

"..I got 3 on the man up!"

Walking around DC yesterday after meeting a friend of lunch..spotted into a very intense chess game happening on 16th..


"I got three on the man up!,....You see...I got three on the man up!..."
dude on the left in green repeated this i think like 20 times, while sipping on something in a bag..he was referring to 3 pawns on that attack to be made a queen....

The FBI computer upgrade that wasn’t

"SAIC was at fault because of the usual contractor reluctance to tell the customer, 'You're screwed up. You don't know what you're doing. This project is going to fail because you're not managing your side of the equation,' " said Kay, who later became the chief U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq. "There was no one to tell the government that they were asking the impossible. And they -weren't going to get the impossible."
-from Article.

How can you possibly get to the final delivery with more than half of the functionality not there/tested?

This project I am sure did not require 200 developers, after all it said only 700k of code was produced.

"You know all those security scenarios we ran through? We're smack in the middle of one we didn't think of."
I bet this movie will be the best of the summer, I am headed to see it

People come in your life for a reason.

PEOPLE  COME INTO YOUR LIFE FOR A  REASON

• People  come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime. When you know which  one it is, you will know what to do for that person.

• When someone is in your  life  for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed. They  have come  to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance  and support, to aid you physically, emotionally or spiritually. They may seem like a  godsend and they are. They are there for the   reason you need them to be. Then, without any wrongdoing on your part or  at an inconvenient time, this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end. Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away. Sometimes  they  act up and force you to take a stand. What we must realize is that  our need  has been met, our desire fulfilled, their work is done.  The  prayer you sent up  has been answered and now it is time to move on.

• Some  people come into your life for a SEASON, because your turn has come to share, grow  or learn. They bring you an experience  of peace or make you laugh. They may teach you something you have never  done. They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy. Believe it, it is real. But only for a season.

• LIFETIME  relationships teach you lifetime lessons, things  you must build upon in order to have  a solid emotional foundation. Your  job is to accept the lesson,  love the person and put what you  have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your  life. It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant.  a friend of mine sent this to me.

This is why we are not going to make it.
Where is the ATF?? because i can't believe this is legal.
Kids,Grandmas,etc. shooting Assualt weapons with smiles!


Nothing says "nice family outing" like a bunch of kids at a firing range with automatic weapons.

Beach of the coast of Punta Cuna, can't wait to go back..

walked in the door from work, and i saw Neo like this..i thought he was dead.

friends of mine, headed out to party in DC.

I was in Domincan Republic for a few days back in July... I stopped by this little spot in Domincan Republic for drinks & food, the people where very friendly, I am thinking about taking a spanish class,

Bahamas, as of 2006 this resort is still damaged from hurricane of 2002!

watching the master-chief do her thing!

dads birthday at jeff & monica's house , showing off his b-day gifts :))

parents in back yard of home

Pops birthday :)

jeff & monica at dinner party in richmond

B-Day cake

since im on the only person with the camera this my only shot at the party