DreamSense

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!

A day off time to reflect living this life no regrets understanding everything believing nothing knowing even less enjoying it all

Remember the simple times the easy times of life recall to your mind when things are rough those fun times will return so sit back and watch as the coaster of life takes shape carefully guide yourself through it just don't let misery take flight those joyful times will be back they'll return to you again ya have to go through the hard times to grow and become strong

Oh life, had you been different you wouldn't be the same the lessons learned the tears fought through all would be forgotten knowing nothing and learning nothing how silly you'd become I prefer the lessons I love the heartache I need the loneliness at times dear life you mean so much to me you're not an easy road I'll give you that but you're a road for sure

They've been doing it in regular desktop apps for years. Why not do the same for web apps? Here's what I'm thinking. Create a project and code it in the main languages that people use for websites. Honestly, would it be that difficult? I don't understand why people don't do this. Aside from the fact that they don't know more than one language maybe? So let's say you have a blogging platform. Why not code it for PHP, ColdFusion, JSP, Perl etc.? (Lets not bring ASP into the mix... but I suppose to be fair we should.) So yep, that is my question for the morning. Why not do that? It makes sense to me... of course it might be the high quantity of caffeine in my system at the moment. But that's besides the point. If you were to code your project in the different web programming languages... made sure that they all looked the same. Just ran differently under the hood. Shoot. I'm loving this idea!

Well, day one of the new year... not too bad. Nothing truly eventful occurred. It was just life as usual. Of course I hadn't planned on anything really great happening. It is just life afterall. Probably time to take the Christmas tree down. Yeah... however the cats to appear to enjoy it. Will have to think that one through for sure. Silly kitties, having their fun and all of that. Speaking of the cats, I'm amazed at how well they get along with the dog. Such good animals they all are. Tomorrow is the second day. We'll see how that goes. Bed Time.

Ah to be free as a bird on the clouds a fish in the ocean To let it all go without a care in the world to live and breathe as I wish Instead I shackle myself binding myself here in these thoughts this life, these memories Someday I'll learn I'll figure it all out and be free... I'll understand what that is

They call it falling in love I wonder what that means doesn't make sense some days especially how it feels Missing that friend from so long ago falling was the easy part I think it was so In the end they left never to speak to or hear from again such was life Life continues somehow meaning nothing yet everything

Once spent the whole day in bed. Didn't do anything but have sex, cuddle, nap, and watch some tv. Seriously it was one of the best days ever just to relax and cuddle and fuck. Didn't have to worry about any responsibilities. Yep truly was a good day for sure.

Ah that most difficult word to say to someone who makes your day goodbye, it hurts no matter the cost A weird word a final word a word that has meaning Something to reflect on sure enough but not to drown you So goodbye to the old and in with the new its how life begins and how life renews

So 2012, you came like you wanted with the drop of a ball and some flare as you do January 1st is my lazy day I've decided still sitting in bed having fun doing whatever I please I hope 2012 will be something exciting not like 2011 which was quite boring So 2012, you better be good don't be dinking around on me and playing under mah hood

Well 2012 came in last night. Not exactly certain what I think about the new year yet. I'm sure it will be full of whatevers and everything else that has to do with whatevers. Typical for a new year to do that to ya. I'd like to say that there were lots of memorable moments in 2011... but well I'm not sure I can recall all of them. So I won't even attempt. Simply on the fact that I might miss a few. So, here's to 2012! Let's hope it's a good year.