So, here I am, still around. Family is doing so so... Adrian is back living at home, Pam is at home deciding what to do, Diana is doing well, but I haven't gotten her report card yet, and Daniel is here caught up in the maelstrom that our home life has been as of late. Things aren't bad necessarily, they are just not good. Times will get better, they always do.
Things have been going so so lately. Pam and I are adjusting to her being done with law school. Adrian has decided to forego the next semester of college in an attempt to gather up some funds to pay some fees since he didn't find employment over the summer. Diana is doing well at her school and seems committed to getting the grades she needs to go to the school she wants to. All the more power to her, I knew she could do anything if she'd put her mind to it. Daniel is in first grade now, and having great time back at the Downtown IDDS (Fair) Arts and Music Magnet School. I'm still working, and looking forward to my transition from the SchoolSuccess platorm over to the new NCAP project in a hardware architect roll.
Here's the cool tool from google.... it'w a world of warcraft example, but you could use any two search parameters that you want to build a grid of...
First, let me start of with I have no financial ties to Blue Jeans Cables. They just have great prices for great products, and are supported by much of the tech community. Anyhow, if you need A/V cables... go here: http://www.bluejeanscable.com/
Monster Cable has aggressively protected its name and trademark by opposing applications for registrations for marks that include the term "MONSTER" at the United States Trademark Office. In addition, lawsuits have been filed in a number of cases. [8] Monster Cable CEO Noel Lee defended these actions by saying "We have an obligation to protect our trademark; otherwise we'd lose it." [9] Monster Cable owns many trademarks[10] and patents[11] listed with the US Office of Patents and Trademarks[12].
Monster Cable's adversaries include:
* Snow Monsters (a kid's skiing group) * MonsterVintage, small used clothing store * Monsters, Inc., an animated feature film[13] * Monster Garage, a television series[14] * Monsters of the Midway, a nickname of the Chicago Bears football team * Fenway Park's Monster seats * Monster.com employment website * Monster Mini Golf[15][16] * Monster Balls Paintballs manufactured by JT Sports
On April 1, 2008, Monster Cable sent a cease and desist letter to Blue Jeans Cable,[17] claiming infringement on certain patents[18] owned by Monster Cable. The owner of Blue Jeans Cable, Kurt Denke, previously a litigation lawyer, responded with a letter detailing flaws and shortcomings in the allegations of patent infringement, adding "Not only am I unintimidated by litigation; I sometimes rather miss it."[19] In this correspondence, Denke also observed the possibility of Monster Cable avoiding federal income taxes by using a Bermuda-based holding company.
Here I am in SF in my first class for the Adobe Max 08 conference. It's pretty interesting so far, we are learning about server clustering and multi-instance running of CF8 on a single machine. I got to SF Friday night about 7:45, took the shuttle to my hotel (Westin St. Francis).... more later, class is starting back up.
Sorry for the lapse here in posts. Been a bit busy w/ the car accident and was sick for a week in there too. Anyhow, a bunch of pictures will be coming and some other tidbits. Check back in the next few days.
Well, I had to send Diana off to get Daniel at daycare today... haven't heard back from them yet. Called the daycare at like 6:01, and no one answers. I'd asked Diana to call me when she got there, but I'm guessing they were closing up and she didn't have time. Hope she made it, I hope they are ok and make it to Soccer.... of all the days to get stuck at work.
The highlights... it was pretty much 8 confused kids, 2 kids who knew what was going on and a large mass of them following a white ball around for an hour! It was awesome.