Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Work has been crazy. We are growing so we hired three new developers, two Java and one Axapta. Then two senior developers left to pursue other opportunities. So we backfilled those two positions. We have five new developers who aren't exactly well versed in our system. And I am taking off for Israel in two weeks so ....
The municipal elections are in full swing all around. Tim O'Hare running for mayor of Farmers Branch, Ron Branson for mayor of Carrollton, Sue Richardson for Irving city council.
I am learning so much in my Precept class as we go through the book of Daniel in detail. You should check out to see if there's a Precept class in your area and join it.
The municipal elections are in full swing all around. Tim O'Hare running for mayor of Farmers Branch, Ron Branson for mayor of Carrollton, Sue Richardson for Irving city council.
I am learning so much in my Precept class as we go through the book of Daniel in detail. You should check out to see if there's a Precept class in your area and join it.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
We got to hear from State Representative Linda Harper-Brown tonight at the Dallas County Young Republicans monthly meeting tonight. She's obviously a conservative legislator, passionate to serve the people of this great state. She's one of those doing her best in whatever position she's been elected to and not just use it as a stepping stone to that next higher and bigger office. She will give you an honest answer to every question asked. A great listener, willing to work hard, doing her due diligence to read and research every bill before she votes on it.
Monday, April 14, 2008
Finally got my taxes done. 2007 was a very blessed year. My AGI crossed into the six figure territory. I hit the Social Security tax ceiling, however was able to avoid the AMT. According to Turbo Tax data, my charitable giving was more than twice that of the national average of people in my income bracket and I am very proud of that.
Sunday, April 13, 2008
All in all it has been good this weekend. Friday, our company's entire IT department moved to the new office location in Richardson. We moved into the facility of a company we bought last year. All they had there is a NOC and a support call center. The cube at the new place is bigger, with more open space, half wall and a lot of clear glass. Will see how the noise is on Monday, when everyone will be there.
Saturday, spent most of the day in class for my real estate license. I want to be a broker, so I don't have to pay anyone when I start buying and selling real estate investments.
Started doing my taxes on Saturday night, almost finish except I realized I need the information on the disk in my desktop computer that crashed about a month ago for capital gain and loss.
Today after church I went to Ron Branson's meet and greet. Ron will be challenging the incumbent mayor in the upcoming May 10th municipal election. Hope we'll get her out of there because she's done nothing good in office but plenty of things to annoy, irritate the good people of Carrollton all around.
Afterward I headed over to Micro Center to grab me 3MB of memory for my Mac mini, and a couple of NAS so I can read the data of the disks. I had two disks in my desktop running Windows XP x64, one old IDE and an SATA, with certain critical data mirrored from one disk to the other. The problem is that the entire box crashed and I need information on long term capital gain and loss to do my taxes. So here I am going with a new strategy, Mac and NAS. I wanted the D-Link DNS-323 for my 500GB SATA disk and the Eagle Consus T-Series ET-CSTNASU2-BK for my 120GB IDE disk. It showed quantity of one in stock but neither I nor the guy who worked there could find the D-Link so I settled with a Vantec eSATA/FireWire/USB2.0 external enclosure instead.
Got home, tried the Eagle Consus, couldn't get it to work. I can assign an IP address to it but can't write anything to it to configure the SAMBA server or the FTP server. Tried to use the USB connection instead but my Mac mini couldn't recognize it and my Windows XP laptop recognized an "IDE to USB" mass storage device being plugged in but couldn't access it. So, do not buy the EagleTec T-Series if you are looking for network storage. The VanTec works perfect with my Mac mini, plugged it in with the FireWire cable, powered on and whoa la, it's right on my Mac mini desktop. I pulled the file I need, and now I need to go finish up my income tax return. Finally opened up my Mac mini again, stick the two new sticks of memory in and whoa la, I have 3GB of memory in my Mac mini. A very happy camper I am indeed.
Saturday, spent most of the day in class for my real estate license. I want to be a broker, so I don't have to pay anyone when I start buying and selling real estate investments.
Started doing my taxes on Saturday night, almost finish except I realized I need the information on the disk in my desktop computer that crashed about a month ago for capital gain and loss.
Today after church I went to Ron Branson's meet and greet. Ron will be challenging the incumbent mayor in the upcoming May 10th municipal election. Hope we'll get her out of there because she's done nothing good in office but plenty of things to annoy, irritate the good people of Carrollton all around.
Afterward I headed over to Micro Center to grab me 3MB of memory for my Mac mini, and a couple of NAS so I can read the data of the disks. I had two disks in my desktop running Windows XP x64, one old IDE and an SATA, with certain critical data mirrored from one disk to the other. The problem is that the entire box crashed and I need information on long term capital gain and loss to do my taxes. So here I am going with a new strategy, Mac and NAS. I wanted the D-Link DNS-323 for my 500GB SATA disk and the Eagle Consus T-Series ET-CSTNASU2-BK for my 120GB IDE disk. It showed quantity of one in stock but neither I nor the guy who worked there could find the D-Link so I settled with a Vantec eSATA/FireWire/USB2.0 external enclosure instead.
Got home, tried the Eagle Consus, couldn't get it to work. I can assign an IP address to it but can't write anything to it to configure the SAMBA server or the FTP server. Tried to use the USB connection instead but my Mac mini couldn't recognize it and my Windows XP laptop recognized an "IDE to USB" mass storage device being plugged in but couldn't access it. So, do not buy the EagleTec T-Series if you are looking for network storage. The VanTec works perfect with my Mac mini, plugged it in with the FireWire cable, powered on and whoa la, it's right on my Mac mini desktop. I pulled the file I need, and now I need to go finish up my income tax return. Finally opened up my Mac mini again, stick the two new sticks of memory in and whoa la, I have 3GB of memory in my Mac mini. A very happy camper I am indeed.
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Lost my blackberry on Sunday when I went to buy weed block fabric from Lowe's in Arlington for our church's volleyball court. So went and got me the Blackberry 8820, the latest BB without a camera offered by AT&T.
Got the 3Gb of PC5300 667MHz but it seems I cannot get it recognized when inserted into my Mac mini. No beep, no error message, just cannot see anything on screen. Will have to figure out why, probably because no PRAM "zapping" since I don't have an Apple keyboard and the video memory is shared with main memory.
Got the 3Gb of PC5300 667MHz but it seems I cannot get it recognized when inserted into my Mac mini. No beep, no error message, just cannot see anything on screen. Will have to figure out why, probably because no PRAM "zapping" since I don't have an Apple keyboard and the video memory is shared with main memory.
