I just saw a post on LinkedIn about a new pluggin for Outlook.  They are in limited beta and I am looking to get an invite because it looks really cool.  If you are interested here is a link:

Over 400 prominent scientists from more than two dozen countries recently voiced significant objections to major aspects of the so-called "consensus" on man-made global warming.

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 also gives his view of many of todays political figures and doesn't hold back.

I highly recommend this book.

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 projects.  But, we'll see how it goes!

For now, I need to work on getting Google AdSense set up as well as Amazon Associates links to some of my favorite books.

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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 a very well written book.  At this point I would give it a definate thumbs up.

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.  Those that don't (pretty much ALL of them) seem to be more interested in gaining and retaining power and influence than doing any real good for the country.

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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.

I saw a bumper sticker stating "Christ is a Liberal" on a vehicle of a church member. My question is "How could you know?" My contention is that Christ is Christ and he is not liberal or conservative. Although, my beliefs really want to lead me to say "Christ is a Conservative!"

So why do I say that? Well, there are many reasons, but one of the prevailing issues that lead me in this direction is the saying "Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach him to fish and feed him for a lifetime." Every liberal program and idea that I am aware of that has been tried is really just give entitlements. They do not force someone to learn to be independent. My personal belief, and one that I know true conservative believe (in contrast...

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 about increasing our sales efforts and having the tools in place to do this.  I am also excited about learning new technologies.  I mean gees...That is one of the things I live for!   But on the other hand, it will take me some time to get this thing up and running and we are under a MAJOR time crunch.  And I need to make some quick dicisions on the integration aspect.  I am hoping...

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 TechSmith and see if they have any ideas.

More to come.....

So, in doing more research, all it is is a setting on the video...

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....



 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 government is for.  It is there to protect us and set up some BASIC rules for things such as interstate commerce.

The spending of the federal government is out of control. ...