A friend of ours is a great photographer and took some pictures of our 4 1/2 month old earlier this week.  She did a GREAT job.  Check them out.

Little Nicholas « Alicia Welcome Photography

Most of my sites use DNN including this one.  I have been swamped at work and home and haven’t been logging on much lately so haven’t been posting.  I use Live Writer at work for my internal status updates blog on our SharePoint, and wanted to see if I could use it for DNN.  A quick search and sure enough, it will work.  This is my first attempt at a post with Live Writer.  If it works, maybe I will actually post more often.

Haven't had much time to do anything other than read a few articles and my email.  Here are a couple more links that I thought were good reading in regards to the financial crap that is going on.

Can't beleive it, but there was actually something worthwhile on CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/29/miron.bailout/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

This one is very good and has a LOT of info: http://www.reason.com/news/show/129158.html

Now onto McCain.  I get the email blasts from the McCain campaign and on Tuesday (9/30), I got one with the subject of "It's time for action" about the "Bail Out" and why it is so "Necessary".  I tend to dissagree and so even though I seriously doubt that it will be read, I hit the reply button and typed the following and sent it off. I support you because you had the forsight to choose a conservative running mate.  Now have have the courage to let the free market work like it is supposed to.  DO NOT SUPPORT a bail out of ANY nature!!!! FreddieMac and...

 

 

 

Here is a good piece in the Wall Street Journal that highlights some issues.

Blame Fannie Mae and Congress For the Credit Mess

I have lots of opinions on the financial mess that the US is in right now, but unfortunately don't have enough time to put them in words.  Have too much programming to do.  In the mean time, here is an article that highlights some specific issues.

How the Democrats Created the Financial Crisis: Kevin Hassett

 

Read this article.  Especially the second paragraph.  This is amazing.  These senators should be voted out of the senate NOW!!

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/574iglgp.asp

This is outragous and has harmed the US immeserably!

WOW! Two posts in a night...Kind of fun.  Never done this before but here is an interview that has some excellent comments regarding Gov. Palen made by Rep. Heather Wilson of NM.

A lot of the taking heads have been touting the move by McCain to select Sarah Palin as his running mate as a move to get women voters.  The one thing they are either missing or glossing over is that she was the BEST choice for McCain to rally the conservative base.  Palin is a true down to earth conservative who is from outside the beltway and actually bets me excited about the election now.

Before the pick, I was planning on voting for McCain, primarily against Obama and not necessarily for McCain.  This pick has turned my vote from a negative vote to a possative.  Now I am excited to vote for McCain/Palin!  I think this choice will move the conservative base of the Republican Party to action.  Whereas before there was a lot of complacency.

GO McCAIN/PALIN!!!

So while I am working like crazy trying to make progress on our in house app rewrite that I am succeeding in getting further and further behind on, I need a few distraction.  A couple of people have asked me to host and design new sites for them.  So I am in the process of getting them up and running.

A buddy of mine and his family started a new part time business and had me put up www.doggonecrazyhotdogs.com for them.

There is a new local resteraunt that I have the domain up, just waiting for content from the owner.  That site is at www.jettygrill.com.

A friend of mine who does promotional products (www.shamrockad.com) got me in touch with a new car dealer in town and I am just getting started on thier site at www.sandpointcars.com.  I think it is looking rather nice.

Now off to bed so I can get up in the...

Although under the gun and stressfull, I have decided to rewrite our in house app that I have been working on for several years.  This is actually pretty cool as I get to change a lot of things that I wish I would have done differently that were causing issues.

The original app was an Access program that I wrote for the company as a consultant in '99.  We went through several additions and changes and then I came on board as an employee in '02 and converted the data over to SQL Server, while leaving everything else in Access.  This was OK other thans some limitiations and compatibility issues as the newer versions of access came out.  Now, the system is just getting slow and Access 2007 is a dog.  SO...Its time for a rewrite.

Since I came on board as an employee, we have tried a couple of differenc CRM packages that just didn't work for us.  So I wrote our own in VB.net.  No I am getting proficient in .net and have added a DevExpress Enterprise subscription to my tools and the time has come.

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