By Jim Clay on 11/21/2007 8:58 PM

Another book that I picked up recently is No Retreat, No Surrender: One American's Fight, by Tom DeLay.  This is an easy read and it gives great insight into someone who I had some respect for and now I have a lot more respect for.  His consice explaination of his view of conservative beliefs is very good and I have to say, I really agree with them.  He readily admits many of his mistakes and what they cost him in is life.  He als ... Read More »

By Jim Clay on 11/5/2007 10:04 PM

I started using DotNetNuke (DNN) a couple of years ago.  Can't even remember how I came accross it.  I had been working on writing a framework for my own sites when I discovered it.  This was way beyond where I could go on my own.  So now, if I have a site of any consequence to do, it goes on DNN.  As an Authorized Reseller for Parcom Internet Services through my other site at www.SandpointHosting.com, I am trying to develop a bit of a niche for myself.  We'll see how it goes.

My intention is to work up a couple of screen videos of setting up a base install, uploading modules and doing an upgrade.  Hopefully I will have some time in the relatively near future.  Having an almost 1 year old and a full time day job doesn't help with time for these extra p ... Read More »

By Jim Clay on 11/4/2007 5:25 PM

So, I am obviously not very good at this because it has been months since my last post!  We'll see if I get better or not...

I just started a great book (so far anyway) called What's So Great About Christianity by Dinesh D'Souza.  So far, having only red the first couple of chapters, it seems like ... Read More »

By Jim Clay on 5/23/2007 8:54 PM

One of the issues I see as a major problem with our government is the tenure.  Elected office was never meant to be a career.  You were supposed to be elected, do your service, go home and get back to work.  Too many politicians have made it their career and are getting rich off of it, or I should say getting rich off of us the tax payers.

If you are a career politition you just flat out cannot understand the real world.  You begin to believe that the government is the answer to everything.  These senators and representative who have been in the congress forever are absolutely out of touch.  Look at Robert Byrd.  He has been there for, I think, 50 years.  Does he have a clue what life is like in the private sector?  It's not possible.

I strugle with actual term limits, but I think that every elected official should at least self limit thier time in the public sector.  Thos ... Read More »

By Jim Clay on 5/20/2007 7:45 PM

Don't get me wrong I love the church that I attend and the congregation is absolutely wonderful. I am excited about raising our daughter in the church, to learn and grow in Christ. But, it is interesting and often times very frustrating how political beliefs play a role.

By Jim Clay on 12/22/2006 8:59 AM

As mentioned earlier, I work for a small company that like to be on the leading edge.  We are very proud of our customer service, but our sales and marketing efforts have been admittedly, pretty weak and unorganized.  I have all these grandeous ideas with regards to what we need to do, but the issue is time an other important things getting in the way.

So, we have decided to commit to a prebuilt sales tool.  We are going to use Salesforce.com and I now get to integrate it with our existing systems that I have built.  This is somewhat of a love it/hate it concept to me.  I am ecstatic about increasing our sales efforts and having the tools in place t ... Read More »

By Jim Clay on 12/15/2006 10:16 AM

I work for a great company that is small but VERY advanced technologically.  I am sitting on hold with Dell right now so we can try and figure out a solution for an idea we have come up with here.

I have found TechSmith's Camtasia Studio, which will record a screen area along with voice narration and a web cam image.  We want to use this to record all of the various activities that we do in our systems.  This is not that hard...The hard part is playback.  Since we all use dual monitors here, we need to record and render a double wide video.  With that, we need to playback the video across to monitors...Thus spanning the video.

According to Dell, this is more of a software issue than a hardware one...So, off to Google and more research.  I guess I will try and contact TechSmit ... Read More »

By Jim Clay on 12/8/2006 4:10 PM

About a year and a half ago, I thought about creating a blog.  I just ran across so things I typed out thinking I would post them.  I never did, but they are still relevant.  So thought I would put them here now....

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 3/18/05

Congressmen (and women if you are PC), are spineless and clueless to the real America.  They are more worried about their next election than doing the right thing.  If we had more people in elected positions that were worried about the real people out there, some more appropriate thing may get done or in some respects more less appropriate things would NOT get done.

The original intent of our founding fathers was not for life long "Public Servants" (or should I say power hungry ruler wanna be's).  People should NOT want to make a living off of the government.  That is NOT what the gover ... Read More »

By Jim Clay on 12/1/2006 11:32 PM

Well...A lot.  But, don't know what I'll say here.  My biggest problem is time.  I would love to hit a topic and just go and go.  But I can't.  I only have a few minutes here and there to devote to this.  Not a biggie it really is way down on the priority list.

So, what are some of the things I would like to discuss:

• Personal finance - I'm a proponent of debt free and do a pretty good job of living that way.  I think a lot of people would be way better off if they lived that way as well.
• Business - I love business.  There are lots of things about business and I have a broad experience base.
• Religion - I am a Christian and proud to say that Jesus Christ is my savior.  I believe in the bible and think it is the best place to learn about life.  I definately do not read it enough.  That has always been ... Read More »
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By Jim Clay on 11/28/2006 11:23 PM

Man...I have a lot happenning.  Trying to get time to do a lot of different things and just brought our first child home the other day.  She and mom are the focus for now.  Other things will have to wait!

I am thinking I will use this blog mostly for me, so that I can get things off my chest.  Ya never know though. So far I am not to successfull at logging in and typing anything up.  I have so many directions I could go on so many things!  Don't feel like starting now...It's past time for bed.