App Development: Odds and Ends

Last Tuesday, I was caught between a 10% reduction in force and a company restructure. While I believe this will catapult me into learning new technologies and methodologies, trying to find the company that has an accommodating position can be a daunting task. In the meantime, I’ve picked up knowledge of more networking technologies, the

A friend from work moved north to get back to his roots. Although I do believe consulting contractors might facilitate the process in many ways, I totally admire his dedication and willingness to do something on such a large scale, and wish him success in this endeavor. This is his story:I bought 10 acres of

American Express held a vote in which it’s members would decide on where it would donate large sums of money. This is an excellent gesture and a most gracious award for the winners. Many kudos to American Express in doing this. The results just came in and I was quite dismayed. I guess I shouldn’t

Have fun with this. It lets you know how much selective listening you really do. Have you already made your selection? If so, is your selection really based on the ‘promises’ made by either party? It’d be nice if they did more of these blind tests. Match-O-Matic – Copyright © 2008 ABCNews Internet Ventures —

Okay, I didn’t want to do this, but this is frustrating. I’m a democrat, but I have no issues voting Republican or even Independent, depending on who I consider appropriate for the position, or worst case, against who isn’t appropriate. I was pro-Bush in his first term, but vehemently against him for his second term

For about 18 years now I’ve had a specific memory plague me which ironically was due to the lack of many memories. For whatever reason, I don’t have a clue why, my memories of high school are few and far between. And unfortunately, this doesn’t preclude the lack of all my memories with some of

I can’t find it, but I watched part of a news segment last night on CNN that discussed the psychological impact (both negatively and positively) of virtual worlds on people. First discussing Doom, they moved into more current games such as Vice City, and then branched into a 10-15 minute spiel on how Second Life

Do you Google? You need to be signed in to Google be able to see this… http://www.google.com/ig?skin=http://kdcinfo.com/ig.xml This is just something I threw together to test the iGoogle Themes development arena. Fairly simple really. Still considering whether it’s worth it to go further on the layout: What is where and color scheme. I just did

The only open source equivalent I found for this program was discontinued back in 2004. Although the obsolete version of the app still runs on XP, I’m not sure about scalability for when we downgrade to Vista. Also, don’t believe either of these apps runs outside of Windows at all (short of wine, sorry *nix

“He was like the cool uncle that every gamer had. He shaped an entire generation of gamers.” – Mike Mearls, Lead developer of the upcoming 4th edition of Dungeons and Dragons World of Warcraft PTR Patch 2.4.0In Memoriam: Gary Gygax * Blizzard Entertainment would like to dedicate this patch in memory of Gary Gygax. His

The game is afoot! Care to join? Just let me know. I can provide you with a 10-day free pass to the greatest multi-player online game of this century to date. Okay, that’s subjective, but you’ll agree as soon as you create your character and learn the ways of their culture. I have a family

Cannot empty the clipboard. Well, I finally found a solid solution for this error (so far as I know for now). I tested this near 50 times and about 5 different ways. I’ve read LOTS of message posts on this, and not one has suggested this. Although one came close by suggesting to leave a

In a follow-up to my AT&T DirecTV Home Entertainment blog post: Although I would still love to have access to FIOS, we were recently forced to switch from AT&T HE over to Dish Network via Ygnition. Although skeptical of a company I’ve heard nothing about (which is why we didn’t go with them when we

Tribute to Reba on CMT – 09/16/2007Such class. Such beauty. So much emotion! So inspirational!!! Lorreta! Dolly!Such class. Such beauty. So much emotion! So inspirational!!! I love everything from folk to hip-hop, and am mostly an 80’s person, yet country always grabs my heart and soul. I see these artists, I see talent, professionalism, and

Looks like LinksManager is raising their pricing, starting immediately, from $19.95 to $29.95. I could barely justify the $19.95 per month for a recip link checker. Was curious if anyone else felt $30/month is worth it? Or am I just being a little overly self-conscious with my monthly allotments and priorities? read more | digg

It is highly recommended to change your passwords so that they are at least 8 characters in length, provided you at least include a number or two, and one or two capital letters. Some good password information pages are at: Great strength checker http://www.microsoft.com/protect/yourself/password/checker.mspx Good advice, but don’t use the checker (the one above is

Technorati… is to me what it sounds like – a souped up, really nice looking blog directory and social networking tool. I get a little more formal feel from it than I do from BlogCatalog, which both have their own level of personalization and comfort. And that’s why I’m proud to be a member of

This message post isn’t so much a complaint, although I do have those in this regard, as it is just something I learned that I thought to share, and who knows, perhaps I’m missing something. We have DirecTV. Not by choice, but because the apartment complex we live in has a contract with them, so

Of all the blog directories that I’ve posted my blogs to, I’ve come across one that has taken blogging to an inspiring level. Blog Catalog has allowed individual bloggers to become part of a larger family, where you can join neighborhoods and become friends with folks around the world based on likes and similarities. A

Google Personalized Homepage will be rebranded as iGoogle and will let you build your own gadgets using wizards. The gadgets are very simple and are more like containers for things that matter to you: photos, videos, events.read more | digg story — Keith D Commiskey https://keithdc.com