DreamSense

Yep, read this sucer and thought it was interesting. http://twitter.com/dreamsense/status/197745458951622656 Oh yeah you know how it is.

[java] System.out.println("Hello World"); [/java]

"I'm not sure Q-Ball. It looks like a Hamburger but it sure doesn't taste like one." Rembrandt Brown said. "I agree, this is not food. This is torture." Arturo chimed in. Quinn and Wade glanced at each other and smiled. "You were given a choice." Wade said "You two decided to eat on this world instead of waiting for the next." Rembrandt took another bite of his burger and choked it down. "Well whatever it is, I paid for it and I'm gonna finish it. How much longer till we slide?" Quinn looked to the timer. "Fifteen minutes and change." "I suppose it is our fault that we ate on a world where Cows are an endangered species." Arturo said. "I have a feeling I know why I'm not a vegetarian." The four Sliders shared in a laugh. Quinn stood "Well it's time to go." The rest of the travelers stood up and followed Quinn into a back alley where he activated the portal. One by one they jump...

So I went to change my desktop background image from the current windows bleh. To something more cool. You know like Iron Man. Here's the actual image that I wanted to use. I sized the image and cropped it to what I wanted it to be. Then went looking for the place to do it. Short and simple? It isn't possible on a Windows Starter OS. Honestly? Really? You serious Microsoft? I knew there was a reason I liked Linux better. Sheesh. So, I might actually be throwing this install out the window as well. Might as well stick to Linux for the rest of my life. I already have two computers running it, why not the netbook? Not a happy camper.

Logan St. Claire exited the vortex from which she was sucked into. "Damn you Mallory!" She fell to the ground as a sharp pain hit her right shoulder. Logan grabbed her shoulder with her left hand. She was bleeding. Looking to the timer in her hand her pulse quickened. "Only five seconds on this world?" As the timer hit zero the vortex opened up and sucked her in again. Again she went through and exited landing in almost the exact same spot. "Why didn't I burn up?" She wondered. Looking back at the timer she read the coordinates, it was the same world. She didn't move on to a different world at all. It was the same world. "I have two days before I slide again. I have two days to figure out how to make this blasted thing not burn me up and not loop around to the same damn world slide after slide." The pain in her shoulder increased. She had to take care of it. She took a look around. Off in the distance stood the Golden Gate Bridge. "I...

The vortex opened and deposited Quinn, Wade, and Rembrandt out in the middle of a park. "Please tell me we're home!" Rembrandt yelled. "Just..." His voice trailed off as he caught a bridge in the distance. "The Azure Bridge!" Wade said excited. "We are home!" Quinn smiled, he had finally gotten his group home. Looking at the timer he put it in his pocket. "Finally." "What ... what do we do?" Wade asked. She walked over to a park bench and sat down. Quinn followed her and sat down next to her. "Wade, we're home. We look up family." "Quinn!" A voice came from accross the park. "Wade! Remmy!" The sliders looked up to see a man shouting at them. He ran over as fast as his legs would carry him. "Is it reall you?" Quinn and Arturo looked at each other and sighed. "Conrad." As Conrad Bennish walked up to them he could only smile. "You came back again!" Quinn smiled. ...

Been watching my Sliders DVDs. (I really wish they would put season 5 on DVD). Anywhoo, it has me thinking and wondering. Since there are millions of Earth's out there. Why not just pick one and start writing new stories? Couldn't be that difficult right? Well that's what I'm thinking at least. We'll see if it happens or not. Maybe Sliders should just be put to rest. I just can't stop thinking of all the different possibilities that are out there. So many stories that have yet to be told.

Found a place on YouTube where one can watch all of the viper episodes from all four seasons. Not too bad considering I've not seen them all. I've seen all of season 1, parts of season 2 and the first episode of season 4. So I'll be sure to be watching these. I hope eventually they'll put all of the episodes on DVD, kinda like they did with Sliders. Actually they didn't put season 5 on Sliders. I'm still waiting for that to come out. Of course I could use NetFlix but well I don't want to do that. Moslty I don't want to pay monthly to just watch old tv shows. I'd rather buy DVDs. So yep, I'm watching Viper now. Love it!

Went and picked up three movies to watch. I love RedBox. The movies I got are: In Time Iron Man Iron Man 2 We'll see how well I enjoy them. I've heard that Iron Man 2 isn't a great movie and all of that, but well I wanted to see it anyway. So yep, we'll see how it all turns out.

Went and saw The Avengers today. I enjoyed the movie. Haven't a clue what the characters are all about etc. but hey I enjoyed the movie. Makes me want to go back and check out this that and the other with how all the characters are, came to be etc. So yep, that's how it all goes. But yes, I highly enjoyed the movie.

Yeah, I haven't a clue what I would call today. Rented a truck to get rid of a bunch of branches and leaves from the backyard and all of that. Wasn't too bad of a day if I do say so myself. So yep, another successful day in my book. Nothing too crazy happened and life is just good.

Came home and installed version 12.04 of Ubuntu. It went very quick. I rather enjoyed the process. Didn't have any issues with the wireless or anything else. So yes so far smooth sailing. So very happy this went quick and painless.

Yup, I upgraded to Ubuntu Unity 12.04. Wireless networking isn't working quite yet. Not sure what's going on. I followed the same steps I have had to with the machine in the past and still nothing. We'll see what happens. But for now, it appears that it just doesn't like me. I'll have to do some more searching in order to find the best answer to fix this problem. But for now, I'll have to keep it wired.

So recently, I decided to include ColdFusion in my Linux setup. I was going to just run Tomcat and install CF that way, but well I decided against that route and installed ColdFusion 9 using the regular methods. It's been running quite smoothly if I do say so myself. I of course don't have the installation instructions anymore. Oops. I suppose I could Google for them again and make a copy or something. But well if my server ever crashes and I have to start all over again, yeah I'll worry aobut it then. FOr now, not so much. So here's my current setup: MySQL PHP Perl ColdFusion 9 Yeah something like that. Not too bad if I do say so myself. Of course what else would I say about it? You know I wouldn't ever say anything bad about my own server setup. Well unless I already have, if that's the case. Oops. Disregard that blog post. So yep, I think I'll have some fun with all of that for sure.

Been reading on people adding their home directories to Subversion. I'm still scratching my head over this one. Currently I zip up the config files that I want to keep backed up and store them on my personal server. I don't quite get why someone would have the need to subversion their home directory for config purposes. Well I take that back, I suppose if someone wanted to distribute their settings out to a ton of people yeah they could do that. For example a .bashrc file that you want all of your students in a class, or all of your coworkers to have the same functions etc. Yeah I could see where that could be useful. But for day to day things? I don't see a need for it. Of course it could change someday, but for now. Nope.

Well the weekend decided to come again. Not sure how I feel about that, well except for the fact that I enjoy the weekends as much as I possibly can. Dog woke up on his usual time, darn bloody early if you ask me. But he's a dog, he doesn't quite get that it's the weekend and that he's meant to sleep in. Yeah something like that. The cats on the other hand know that sleeping is good for you. I mean think of how much they tend to sleep all the time? Yep all of that for sure. So dear weekend, I feel like just hanging out with you and having some fun. Is that to much to ask? Nope didn't think so.

So I decided I should actually watch the rest of Battlestar Galactica. I've seen the first three seasons. So why shouldn't I actually finish it up and watch the fourth season? Yep that's what I'm thinking. So there's my thoughts on that. Of course I should just watch the series starting from the beginning all over again. Yeah, get recaught up on what the whole show was even about. Now there's an idea. Give me some time to save up to download the last season, then if I enjoy it that much I can go and buy the DVDs for the series. Yep all of that.

Been playing with the Terminal lately. I've been wondering why I just didn't go with a Terminal only install. Oh that's right, because I want to actually surf the web with all the images and stuff. I'm sure I could have found a way to do that. But yes, I'm still loving having Linux on my home computer. It's just wonderful to be able to pop open a Terminal and do things. Ran across some YouTube videos lately that's teaching me more about bash scripting. I probably should pick up a book on it, that would be way cool. One script came in very handy. It gives me the ability to record my screen. I figured it would be way difficult and time consuming. But nope, not with the script. I'll have to post a link to where I got it from later. It just rocks. So yes, I'm giving Ubuntu Linux version 11.whatever a two thumbs up. I hear there's a version 12 out there in beta land. I've not upgraded yet, still waiting for the OS to tell me it's available and...

Oh yes, I did it. I removed the Windows Vista OS from my laptop and installed Linux. Now I am just happy with what I now have. Oh yes you wouldn't believe it! Free OS, Free software to use as I please. Yep it's the greatest thing to happen to my computer since I bought the sucker. It feels like my computer is running quite faster as well. So I'm happy. The flavor I decided to go with was Ubuntu.

As I was in the process of backing up files last night due to the fact that I was getting rid of Windows Vista (finally). I found out the following: I managed to backup all of my videos and music just fine. I did not however backup some java projects that I was working on. Bad Kyle! Bad! Oh well, I guess I'll have to code those over again. This time I'll be sure to check them into my local SVN repo. Can't believe I didn't do that. Oh well, once you learn you learn right? That's how it works yes?

Ran across a fan made Star Trek film today on YouTube. Yeah I wasn't amused in the least. I don't get why people make such films. Doesn't make any sense at all. Oh well, they can do whatever it is they want. But to be honest, I think Star Trek has seen its days and should just be put to rest. Yep you heard me, it needs to just go to sleep. Take what it has and run with that.

Huh, so here's the deal with the Burger King Rewards Points. You get points for moneys you spend. That's good and all. Ah the breakdown of points (I'm putting this here, well because I forget things easily): 1000 Points 2 Cookies Ice Cream Cone Fudge or Caramel Sundae French Toast Sticks (3pc) Cini Mini (4 pc) Small Coffee 2000 Points Chicken Tender (4pc) Breakfast Muffin Sandwich Apple Pie Medium Fry or Onion Ring 4000 Points Iced Coffee (any Flavor) Original Chicken Sandwich Whopper Sandwich 6000 Points BK Big Fish Sandwich Tendercrisp or Tendergrill Sandwich Any Bk Crown Kids Meal Croissan'wich Value Meal (sm) 8000 Points Whopper Value Meal (sm) Original Chicken Value Meal (sm) Tendercrisp or Tendergrill Value Meal (sm) 10000 Points Ultimate Breakfast Platter Small Meal Double Whopper Value Meal (sm) BK Chef's Choice Value Meal (sm)

Ah the matter of Time Travel. It's happened before through various televisions shows and movies, books etc. The whole notion of "What If" I did this instead of that back in the day. By some miracle the character is given the opportunity to travel back in time and correct a mistake they think they can fix. As most time travel stories go, the character finds out that no matter what they do to change the past they simply screw things up by doing so. They find it's better to have left the past as it is and they go about their way satisifed that they at least tried. One would think if they had figured out that part to begin with, they would be happy. But no this is never the case. What is it about the human race that makes us want to fix regrets from our past? Mistakes and whatever else happens in ones life make up who they are today. If more people could realize that and understand that, would they still want to go back in time and change events? Interesting question. Sin...

If you're attempting to upload a file using Safari... don't even try. Apparently the iPad iPod Touch and iPhone's Safari browser's don't have access to the file system... so anytime you come across a webpage where you can upload a file, it won't let you. There are "workarounds" which include jailbreaking your iWhateverDevice ... but honestly do people really want to do that to use your website? Way to go Apple... way to go.

Okay seriously? I went and did a search for "cheating at TinyTower"... sure enough there are cheats for it. They all appear to do with date and time modifications. My first question is... why? My second question is no really why? Silly people, why on earth would you want to cheat at a free game? Or cheat at any game? People just don't have patience anymore. Currently I'm waiting 13 hours for a floor to finish. Yep I'm waiting for it... gasp . Whoever thought of actually waiting for your game to do its thing? If I were to cheat it would take all of the fun out of it. So nope, not gonna cheat.

Hello Easter Bunneh... you came last night. Woohoo! You um left your carrot behind though. I won't lie. It just kinda happened. Yep all of that.

So I started playing a game called Tiny Tower on my Android well and my iPod. It's quite addictive for unknown reasons. The goal is to build as tall of a tower as you can. You create different floors that are of different types, residential, food, service etc. and just keep building. I tend to leave it alone for a few hours and pick it up, the game keeps playing by itself. So yep, Tiny Tower give it a shot if you haven't yet.

So I tried Pepsi Next. Not too bad if I do say so myself. Actually found the taste to be quite good. I compared the Nutritional Information on the back of the bottles of Pepsi and Pepsi Next the other night. Pepsi Next did have less sugar in it... but if I'm not mistaken it had more sodium. I'll have to find the exact numbers and post them. But as far as the taste goes? Very good in my opinion. Quite delicious actually. I'd pick that if they started serving it in fast food joints.

So the weekend comes to an end. Good things were learned, hopefully remembered over the course of this weekend as General Conference came to a close. I?m always excited for General Conference. It feels like it just goes too quickly some years. Before long it's over. Good learning experiences were had for sure. I?ll have to download the messages to read over to catch things that I may or may not have missed.

Wow... can't believe people are all up in arms about this. So, as we all know, George Lucas made "Special Editions" of the Star Wars movies. Fans of the movies got all upset because he changed things and enhanced the movies from their 1977 looks. They "demand" that he release the original untouched movies in a high def format. Lucas refuses and tells them to "Grow Up." Classic. My question to all those happy Star Wars fans out there? Why don't you just watch your VHS copies that we know you have. Don't say you don't have the originals.... we know you do have access to said originals. Sure they're not in DVD format and stuff, but hey you have access to them. It's his show. He can do whatever he wants to do with it. Yep my 2 cents.

I always get a kick of logging into my WordPress and reading through the spam that gets stuck in the thing. Yeah. Oh too funny!

Yeah... let's talk about Flash for a minute shall we? Dearest Adobe, why does your product choose to update ... what it seems like every 5 minutes. Or every time I turn around? Why? You can't seriously be adding that many changes to the Flash program installed on my computer... can you? Perhaps I should start following every little release you do to the software so I'll know exactly what it is you're adding to my computer now. Honestly... it's starting to become annoying. Well more than annoying. Sure you want your followers computers to be up to date and everything... and you think that by making them update every so many days will keep them that much safer . Yeah... about that. There a freakin' way you can just do it in the background? Without bothering me? That would be nice. Fix something... make it better... make it more seamless. I don't want to even see you that often!

It's already Tuesday... I'm still wondering where yesterday went to. Or Sunday for that matter. I suppose one could blame Daylight Savings Time and all of that fun mess. But well why go there at all? My thoughts exactly. In other news... yeah there is no other news. Had you going there for a moment didn't I? Had some fun times with the hosting company. I swear they're not the brightest people on the planet. I'll have to write about that later.

I love 7-Zip. I use it like no other on the command line. Something occurred to me tonight though. When I backup files... say make a copy over to my DropBox, I just copy them to my Dropbox. I haven't been zipping them up. Well guess what I started doing? That's right. I started zipping up some projects and copying those over to my DropBox. Good times for sure.

Apple has released their new iPad. yes you heard me right, they released a new iPad. Now interesting thing that happens whenever they release new things... eventually the newer operating system that will go on the device won't work on version 1 of the iPad. Yeah... same thing happened to my iPod Touch and my Apple Laptop. So... yeah, I think I'll still wait a while before getting an iPad. Maybe I'll wait till version 4 or 5. Or just never get one at all. Yep that's also an option.

Back in the day FaceBook was good. Then things just became bleh. Yeah I said it. You remember the days when people would add you left and right. People you hadn't heard from since Jr. High School. Yep all of that. Well FaceBook. I'm pretty sure that I'm getting tired of it all. I'm sure there is something more out there than being obsessed over FaceBook. People can't just live life on the internet. So yeah... there are sure some things to think through over FaceBook for sure.

So the weekend is here. A weekend is always a good thing to have around. So many things can happen in a weekend. Currently I'm just reading and catching up on random things. Oh yes good times indeed.

Lots of thoughts in my head tonight. Not sure where half of them are coming from or where they are going. I suppose everything will work out in the end.

Why yes I am speaking of how quickly the weekend went. Honestly it went by faster than a slug on a turtle. Mind you that's pretty fast... for the slug. The turtle is use to walking that fast. So yep the weekend is over, back to work and all of that fun stuff.

Talk about way easy to add to a date using MySQL. Didn't know it would be this simple: Let's say you want to add a certain number of years to a date: DATE_ADD(NOW(), INTERVAL 1 YEAR) Now, wasn't that easy? You can do the same thing for days as well. Just change INTERVAL 1 YEAR to INTERVAL 1 DAY Yep, that's pretty much it. Happy coding!

Oh yes, President's Day is on Monday. Which means day off!! I can handle that... oh yes very much so. Think I'll relax tomorrow... do somethings here and there. But yeah mostly just sit back and relax. Fun times, good times. Can't wait. Oh that means I can also stay up late tonight... and well into tomorrow morning without having to worry about going into work. Sounds like a plan to me!

What is it about Soda that's so yummy? Probably all the sugar and stuff they put in it. It's amusing how some people prefer a brand of soda over another... how they can't live without it etc. Can't say that I'm addicted to a certain brand. If it's soda, I'll probably drink it no matter what. All the soda.

Darn Polar Bears were keeping me up last night. Not sure what on earth they were doing... thought they hibernated during this time of year. Guess I was wrong. All I could hear was a seasaw. Guess the Polar Bears were just not sleepy and wanted to have some fun? Yeah no clue. I think I'll waddle over to their habitat later on and see what they're up to. We've been neighbors for a while now... and haven't gotten to know them. Or I'll just go looking for fish. Mmmm fish.

Dear Weekend. You find a way to amuse me. That's why I think you're the best. Well more than that of course. I think I just enjoy sleeping in and watching TV. Yeah something like that. Not quite sure at all... it's all just yeah all of that. Sweet, I'm starting not to make sense early on in the post... that can't be good. I started watching Nowhere Man again. I should write blog posts about the episodes. Such a good show that is.

So I was looking for a way to fade out and slide... I was turned towards animate. But I'm not quite sure that's what I want... its kinda choppy. Guess I'll continue searching.

Oh JQuery. I've missed working with you. Time to pick the book back up and learn something new. Personally the dialog boxes rocked and all of that... yeah that's the extent of what I know so far.

Ah Monday... first day of the week. So fun. So yeah. Hi Monday.

The mind is an interesting piece of equipment. Always working. It keeps you breathing, helps your legs move, your arms etc when you need them to move. It can also be the cause of much heartache and loss. Especially when memories are involved. Just some random thinking for tonight.

Oh yes... I'm awake for some reason. Haven't a clue why exactly. Just here I am. I wonder what tomorrow will bring... hopefully something good.

I was working on something today... more of a proof of concept. I had a dynamic form from which the user would fill it out and click submit. They would then see if they filled it out correctly. Well, I got a little stumped for a second or two regarding it... how would I check if the question was processed. Usually I do: IsDefined("form.fieldname") But with my question looking like: answer_#q.question_id# I couldn't quite do that. CF kept telling me it hated me. (Honest, those were its exact words.) So I had to figure something out. At first I thought I'd have to use Evaluate... but well would you know that would be the wrong course of action? Ran across a website that told me to do this: form["answer_#q.question_id#"] Would you know that it worked? Oh yes it sure did work. So that made my day.

Just trying to figure out more things on WordPress... for kicks. Nothing too big... mostly have to do with theme related stuffs. It's something for sure.

Oh the PS1 variable. Good times for customizing your Linux Prompt. Been attempting to figure out a good Linux Prompt for my computer. Still looking into it... and still trying to figure out exactly what it is I want my prompt to display. If I don't figure that out... well what's the use of having a prompt at all. Yep all of that. So we'll just have to wait and see what happens with all of that. Good times head.

So... watching The Biggest Loser. The Aqua Team is back. Always difficult for newbies to show up... yeah. Should prove to be amusing to say the least. I'm sure they'll be the first ones picked off, chewed up, and spit back out. So yeah there's that. The other teams... yeah they're not that happy with them at all. Yeah they don't believe nuffin... sooo classic.

Been working a little with some modifications to make my own WordPress Theme. They say the key thing to remember is not to change any of WPs core code. Write all the plugins you want, write all the themes you want. But don't you dare change the base code. Just look at the Replicators when SG-1 mucked around with their base code. Yeah remember that? Well mucking around with WP's base code is similar... well it won't spawn up and come after you. But you get the idea. First up, I wonder what kind of other post types I can come up with... who knows eventually I might come up with something for this site... yeah we'll have to wait and see about that now won't we.

Funny thing about Science Fiction stories / shows / whatevers. The authors can make them believable if they choose. On the other hand they can do whatever they feel like. I suppose that's why it's called fiction. Having the authority to do this that and the other. But please make sure it's a good story... or at least something that will hold your audience's attention. If it doesn't do that, and they leave? Yeah forget it. They won't be coming back.

Wow... just took at look at all of the categories and tags etc for this site. I might need/want to rethink most of it. Or at least keep the search active. Yeah that might be the best way to find blog posts at the moment. On the other hand... I suppose it looks alright. Nothing too crazy. Nothing too bad. Yeah all of that and more. Still working on the design of the site. Eventually I want to put the site in some kind of full with layout etc. Yeah not sure how that'll end up. We'll just have to wait and see what happens with it all.

Been watching The Outer Limits on Hulu lately. I just love this show. It's rather good. I should post something about the episodes or something... yeah that would be a fun project for sure. We'll see if I ever do that though. Busy busy me.

Such an interesting word... "Today". Lots of things happen and lots of things exist simply because of "Today". Not much to say really... just "Today" was alright. Yes, that pretty much sums it up.

I'd say it never ceases to amaze me... perhaps it's more of an amusing type of thing. You're on the internet and go to search for a tutorial on this that or the other. A program is required. The tutorial goes through step by step on installing the needed program. Why is this? I would think that if the program was written well, it would have an installer that was helpful enough to step you through installing the program. The tutorial you're reading wouldn't have all of the steps to install it... shouldn't it just say "First install this program, now that you have it installed, here's how you use it." Type of thing? Yeah. That's what always gets me. Perhaps I'm just alone in this thinking... who knows.

Usually you wouldn't ever use a hello world example in Ant. Outputting text isn't really the goal of the thing. But this will give you a chance to see how to run an ant build. So, open up a text editor and save the following as build.xml . <project name="HelloWorld"> <target name="sayhello"> <echo>Hello World!</echo> </target> </project> You would then run the program as: ant sayhello As you might expect, it simply says Hello World! Echo messages are useful to track the process of an Ant Task when it's going through specific procedures that you specify.

I suppose that means it's time for bed. :-) I guess that's a good thing... maybe. We'll see how well I sleep... if I can sleep at all. Yeah all of that... and then some. We'll figure it all out eventually. Maybe possibly. If not... well that's just another story to think about... another song to write... something else on the horizon to worry for another day to come. With that I say good night, may sweet dreams meet you with their kindness. May tomorrow morning come in bright and wanting.

I use Ant a lot when I program. Mostly for deploying whatever I've been coding to a test site. I currently have an ant build file that has two targets. One target will put the files to a tomcat server running ColdFusion 9, the other target will deploy the files to a server running Railo. Eventually I'd like to have my build file run to all of the possible ColdFusion versions that I can. Now that would be something special. I should start a section regarding Ant... now that would be something special.

Who would have known that the night would have progressed so quickly? I sure wasn't expecting it to be this late already... before long tomorrow will be here and everything else will happen. Work will come and yeah. So I can just look forward to dreamland I suppose. Hopefully I'll have some good dreams tonight. We'll have to see what happens. For now, I'll just sit here and wait till the night continues and I will be able to go to bed.

Gage sure knows when he wants to go for a walk. He's had some fun times today while we were out. From taking my latest book from the bedroom, to moving things around the house. Oh yes, methinks we need to keep things out of puppy's reach.

Looking to her with lust needing to feel her against me licking her lips caressing her body Kissing her deeply hearing her moan tasting her sweetness in the moonlight More than a friendship and more than a makeout something unique something close to my heart

There's nothing wrong with your television...

And for every useless reason I know, there's a reason not to care.

Time for bed. *yawn* Not my fault that it's bed time mind you... it just is bed time.

With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.

Life is the messy bits.

I will not sacrifice the Enterprise. We've made too many compromises already, too many retreats. They invade our space and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no farther! And I will make them pay for what they've done!

I'd let a homeless schizophrenic rub my feet.

They say the world will end in 2012... well it's 2012 now. We'll see if that's true.

Is your fridge running? It is? Better go catch it...

So not ready for the week to start... but it's too late for that now isn't it. So I suppose it'll start no matter what. Sounds good to me.

Just finished watching X-Men First Class. Not too bad of a movie. Not too bad at all.

Been thinking of creating my own Database Class. Either PHP class or maybe a ColdFusion component... perhaps both. I imagine it would be something simple, something that takes arguments of the query built as strings. For CF, not sure how I would do a <,cfqueryparam>> on parameters send into the function, if the function accepts a string. So something to think about with that for sure. Not sure what I'll do with said class file(s) but yeah you just never know what it will bring.

Been working with my /var/www directory lately. Rather annoying how it wasn't working for me. Anytime I tried to upload a file it didn't want to do anything with it etc. Long story. So I ended up running the following commands: $ mkdir ~/www $ sudo mv /var/www /var/www-backup $ sudo ln -s /home/user/www /var/www Works like a charm!

Ah the fun times of inputting data from the command line in a Java program. Java has come a long way in this respect. From starting with IO Streams to what they have now. Currently, there is a Console class in the java.io package. Here's a simple test I did capturing data the user enters: import java.io.Console; import java.io.IOException; public class Test { public Test() { } public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException { String in = null; Console c = System.console(); if (c == null) { System.err.println("No console."); System.exit(1); } while (!(in = c.readLine("> ")).equals(".quit")) { // do something with the content you just captured System.out.println(in); } } } That's a very simple program now isn't it? Just accepts whatever you enter and echos it back out to the screen. If you type in .quit it will quit the program. So yep, just a simple program for capturing data in a Console application.

Spent way too much time last night attempting to setup a Linux Server at home. After five hours, I finally figured it out. Woot!

So... I wrote a program that would help cheer me up whenever I feel down. Yes I wanted my computer to tell me how wonderful I am and that it loves me. You'd do it to... if you wanted to. Yeah all of that... because of reasons and other things. Quite simple actually, all I did was check for keywords that I passed in... if it matched a "bad" keyword, I would output something like "Don't say that, you're wonderful!" If it happened upon a "good" keyword, it would say "I Love You." Just something simple. I want to try some kind of text game where it takes input as text, and does things... just moving from screen to screen on a map would be amusing. "Go left, go right, go forward, go backward" etc. Just something to toy and play with for sure.

Merged two websites into one tonight. Figured why log into two places when one will do. So yep this is the new improved site. Hopefully all I'll be doing is adding to it from here on out. We'll have to see what happens. Speaking of moving things around. Tonight I formatted an old computer I have, put Linux Mint on it and created my own home server. Not too bad if I do say so myself. Can't recall all of the processor specs and all of that, but it has 2 gigs of ram and a 320 gig hard drive in it. So no I don't think I'll be running out of storage space anytime soon. Kinda enjoy having my own server in the house. Good for projects or whatever else I need/want to put on it. Not to mention it'll be nice to actually have something that's up 24/7 instead of only when the laptop is on.

Surprise Surprise... I was working on a site and would you know it? cftextarea isn't supported in Railo. Either I have to come up with some other way to use the cftextarea... or just tell peoples that the app isn't supported on Railo. That kinda sucks for ONE tag to bring down a whole site as not useable. I suppose I could ditch CFs built in JavaScript error checking and use jQuery... or something else. Something to think about for sure. For now at least... yeah need to figure it out.

It's morning, I have Hot Chocolate and ready to tackle the day.

Well I'm awake, alert, and up. I suppose that means something.

I keep telling myself that I need to go to bed... and yet here I sit. Doesn't make any sense to me. Why doesn't anything make sense??? Man I wish I could just get out of this funk I'm in.

I suppose that since the weekend is over... that should mean something. Not sure what that means. I swear it gets more confusing as time continues. Yes all of that.

I suppose sleep would be good right now. Not sure what exactly it would bring me though. I should figure that out.

Find a way to live there's got to be something if not nothing out there Living life makes sense if you know what you need perhaps what you want If it's nothing you're just there nothing to wait for Life moves on no matter what you try it continues no matter what

Just a tad stressed out tonight. I have got to figure things out. Just getting behind on things... doesn't make sense how  I'm getting behind... doesn't make sense at all. One would think it would make better sense and would work out easier the way it should. Nope not a clue. How do people do this? Wish I knew... wish I knew. But no I sure as heck don't know how it's meant to work out. Feeling so lost right now. Have to figure this one out. Need to figure this one out. No clue how it's all meant to be. I just don't know. I'm sure this will make no sense to anyone. That's fine. I hear that life isn't meant to make any sense... it's just there. Or here. Who knows what it is anymore. I sure don't. Wish I did. That would be nice. Oh well... I'm sure I'll figure something out eventually.

Been working on a Contact Manager. It's almost done... well the main part is almost done. I'm sure I'll figure more to add to it. There are still a few things I need to implement. Adding / modifying users comes to mind. But yes, there's more I can do with the project for sure. Come to think of it, I should comment my code more. Sure there are some comments and all, but if someone wanted to modify it... yeah not sure how helpful the comments would be.

Oh how life is easy... that's what you'd want to believe.

Oh Spam. Honestly where do you even come from? So annoying. So crazy. Not even sure why you are around. I guess you're there to annoy people and whatnot. Yeah all of that. So no. I do not like you spam. You are evil and will never understand what it's like not to be spam. So yes, you may go now.

So here's a simple problem I had earlier this week while working on a personal project. I had a webpage in an iframe that spanwed a window. The new window would either add a record to the database or update an existing record. The page that opened the window would then reflect the updated data. Well for a while I tried various different things. Then I finally came upon the correct way to do it: window.opener.location.reload(true); So after I do my updates or additions, I run that code and it refreshes the data list and shows the new information. Easy. As. Pie.

Why live in regret when you have the opportunity to change Why wallow in self pitty when there can be so much more to do Why is a strong word go out and do

The music makes my head bop it's of no importance yet I feel good Making my way through life my head bops just like I'm having fun Getting it all done understanding nothing simply living life

So there I was... attempting to figure out the best way to to a like clause in a query statement using the cfqueryparam tag. I had it coded like this: like <cfparam cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar" value="#arguments.search_criteria#"> Well that didn't work. So I did some googling. After a little bit of searching, I finally found out how it should be coded. like <cfparam cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar" value="%#arguments.search_criteria#%"> After laughing at how simple that was... I used it. Worked like a charm.

Been attempting to put a datetime variable into a MySQL Database via ColdFusion. For the life of me, I couldn't figure out what I was doing wrong. At first I tried: #createODBCDateTime(now())# For some reason that was only giving me the date and not the time. Then I tried splitting up the date and time into two different fields, one for the date and the other for the time. Then I tried this code: #createODBCDate(now())# #createODBCTime(now())# That gave me the date, but still not the time. Well I did some searching and then found there's a built in function in MySQL to do this. Why not. Talk about simple: NOW() Well guess what, it worked just like a charm.

So glad it's Friday! Soooo very very happy!

Honestly, sometimes I think morning just comes way too early.

Oh amusing morning, when will you ever learn about whatever it is you're supposed to learn about? Yeah that, and other things. Mostly that.

There's an interesting thing about life that not a lot of people worry about. Stress. They say there's good stress and bad stress. Yeah that. Sometimes the bad stress takes its hold on you... leaving you helpless. Well you feel helpless, doesn't make any sense at times. One would think it would eventually make sense. I wish it would make sense. Wish there was a simple way to just slow down and take a breath. But that's where the issues come into play. There isn't always the time to take a breath. Taking a breath can make you think and stress even more. I hate that feeling... trapped Ya can't move, there's nowhere to run. Yeah... got to stop thinking tonight for sure.

Thinking about overwhelming things right now. Not any fun.

Finally heading to lunch. I wonder what it is I'll actually get... something yummy for sure. Perhaps something on the spicy side? Maybe. Possibly something Mexican, or a sandwich. Oh yes a sandwich would taste good about now too.

Thinking about lunch right now... oh how lunch would be good.

Honestly? I don't think some people actually understand anything... wow. What a crazy world we live in.

So wanting to go to bed right now. Oh how nice that would be But well there's a couch... hmmm might just have to take the couch.

To Be a penguin, one must realize how much of a penguin they are. Not everyone understands what it is to be a penguin... others just must simply be.

Well there went another Monday... it's now over. Can't complain at all regarding that. Kinda glad the day is over. Of course when the day ends that means that the night only begins. So what does that mean about it all? Eh not much, it's just life... pretty much it. As all Monday's do... it's the start of a new week. New weeks mean that the old week is no longer around... sure memories are there and all, but well that's the end of that. So this week... we'll see how it all goes.

Watching tv... Storage Wars to be exact. Good times... good times for sure.

Thinking about dinner... oh how dinner would be good right about now.

The weekend was good to me. At least I think it was good to me. Can't complain regarding it. It was just a weekend. Got to relax and just sit back and do nothing. Yes that's what I did indeed. Tomorrow starts a new workweek. Good times to be had for sure. So glad that for all of the things that I have in life. Not the material things, but more along the lines of security etc. To recap what I did... watched a movie, watched some TV. Worked on some WordPress template stuff... and yep just did nothing. But I already said that now didn't I? Yeah well... that's it.

Ah Multidimensional Arrays. Nothing too crazy in JavaScript. Just a little bit of this and that. So typical arrays are fun and easy. You create them like so: var colors = new Array(); colors[0] = "Red"; colors[1] = "Yellow"; colors[2] = "Blue"; Well that's fine and dandy, but what if you want to associate something with each of those? For example, what if you wanted to create a menu? You'll need at minimum a link name and a target. We could do something like this: var colors = new Array(); colors[0] = new Array(); colors[0][0] = "red.htm"; colors[0][1] = "Red"; colors[1] = new Array(); colors[1][0] = "yellow.htm"; colors[1][1] = "Yellow"; colors[2] = new Array(); colors[2][0] = "blue.htm"; colors[2][1] = "Blue"; function createColors() { document.write('<ul id="colors">'); for (var i = 0; i < colors.length; i++) { var link = colors[i][0]; ...

Here's a fun little css stylesheet that one can use for menus. The CSS for the menu is: #menu { padding:0px; width:120px; } #menu a { text-decoration:none; color:#000; display:block; border:1px solid #fff; padding-left:3px; } #menu a:hover { border:1px solid #000; } Which you can use with the following html: <ul id="menu"> <li><a href="#">Link One</a></li> <li><a href="#">Link Two</a></li> <li><a href="#">Link Three</a></li> </ul> This will producde a simple menu that when hovered over will display a black box around the menu item. Of course you can change the background color, or the font etc. to whatever you need it to be. Ah the simplicity that is CSS.

Watching this little gem of a movie today... surround sound of course. Upon viewing it... the whole idea of having a clone of Picard really is a good idea for a story. Of course I would have loved for them to take it a little differently. Something along the lines of having the clone be the age of Picard. They could have done some really good stuff there. Half the movie could have been following the clone around the Enterprise etc. and then we find out it's a clone. Yep something like that for sure. But it's still a great flick. I enjoy it.

There are two types of for loops in Java. Your traditional loop: for (int i = 0; i } Or the advanced loop that will loop through items in say an array: for (String s : stringArray) { } Let's go through both of these examples and see what comes of it. First, let's create a String Array for the loops to process. String[] strArray = {"one", "two", "three"}; Simple enough. Just an array containing three values of one, two and three. With the traditional for loop, you would loop through the array like this: for (int i = 0; i System.out.println(strArray[i]); } As you might have guessed, it outputs the three values: One Two Three Now, let's do the same thing, but using the other for loop. Sometimes this loop is called a For Each loop. for (String s : strArray) { System.out.println(s); } Again we get the three values: One Two Three I prefer the new method myself. It comes in handy. But there are times that you'll want to use the traditional...

Friday decided to come. Can't complain about that at all. Looking forward to just relaxing at home during the weekend and all of that fun stuff. Oh yes good times indeed. You'd think I'd be able to get away from the computer during the weekend. Well no. That's not always the case. I usually tend to program and just have fun. Hobbies are always a good thing, programming happens to be mine. So that's what I do. I should come up with some ideas this weekend for projects and other things to work on. That would be neat. Of course writing a story would also be well accepted. Yes story writing is a must. That's what I'll do, start a new story. See where it goes.

Created a Projects page. You can access it through here . Nothing too special, so far only one project exists on it. The XML project that I talked about earlier. If it's useful to people great. If not that's okay as well. Just something I felt like working on.

So I was looking into creating XML documents. Of course you could use the default that comes with Java or you could use JDom. I've used both methods in the past, and they both work quite well. Got me thinking though, why not approach the creation of an xml document as a StringBuffer ? Could be useful if you don't need to have a DOM to work with. Something simple to just output the xml document in a very simple text format. I'm currently working on it. Possibly more just a proof of concept. We'll see how it all turns out.

I was looking through some old folders the other night and stumbled upon a bunch of code that looked like they were starts to projects that never came to anything. It was interesting to see the different kinds of ideas I had going, and then for some reason or another just stopped. I'm wondering if any of these are projects that I should pick back up or not. Should be an interesting journey. Well not to mention it would be nice to clear out the junk and clutter that doesn't need to be there anymore. So yep something to do for sure. Looked over my HTML project. I should revive that one for sure and at least post the existing source code that I have. That'll be my next step.

At work doing work stuff shuffling papers and the like Waiting for lunch and then time to go more than a paycheck I know Staring at the ceiling thinking of life listening to things that don't make sense It's worth something that's for sure what it is somedays haven't a clue

A place to live a place to find a place to call my own Something in the distance far far away where only my mind can go Needing something to call my own someplace to rest in peace If only for a moment to feel that gift of quiet in soft release

Doesn't feel like I have time to do anything anymore. Especially writing stories. Need to find a way to figure that out... how to just dive in and start writing things, stories... poetry... whatever I can write. Lots an lots of writing. Ideas are not always easy to come by of course. So I'll have to do some thinking on those as well. I suppose I'll just see what happens. Get some ideas together and just see what rolls off the tip of my pencil.

Laying my head on the pillow I begin to dream Something of this and something of that nothing makes sense to my awake mind So my sleeping mind it will make all the things make sense A play, a film, music plays whatever my mind thinks up, it's there Life unknown, stories untold the truth and mystery remain So to dream I say goodnight may it be interesting

There I sat on the beach watching as the waves crashed against the rocks a peaceful day for sure Sea otters doing their dance on the ocean they would play silly otters Whales swimming around doing their whale thing living the dream In a past life I was me yet I wasn't me I enjoyed it all and lived my dream something different for sure Now I am a different person trapped in this new life waiting or something Or maybe waiting for someone someone with the answers to the life that I once lived

Sleepy time is here night time wants me my pillow beckons me and my bed awaits too late for dreaming tomorrow will be here soon so sleep I  must find and sleep I has needs

Don't worry about the past if you've learned from it Don't worry about the far future the close future will probably change it Don't worry about the small stuff when there are bigger fish to fry Simply live your life until the day you die

Second day of January. Talk about good times. Didn't have to work today, tomorrow work starts all over for the New Year. Sometimes all ya have to do is smile at life. Once you can do that and laugh at yourself? Life will be a good ride. Of course it's not always easy, but shoot if you believe in yourself, the sky is the limit!