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You know what is up and running a new game… get over there quick!

Hey Rich! It is mesmerizing isn’t it? I just put it on the new home page. It does give you more room to play with it. I’m addicted to having the letters pile on each other when you move the mouse to the right at just the right speed…

PayPal looks very interesting…..thanks.

I’m still trying to get my foot in the door and was considering a CIW Certification. After researching, I’ve found it to be the #1 vendor neutral certification. The thing is, I’ve talked to two consulting firms and both have never heard of it and said that certifications were fine but that their customers look for experience first. Argh! Thoughts anyone?
Experience? Well, I’ve started working on a new Belleville Online. Here’s the new home page. Going for a “cleaner” look. I have to admit, all of the self promotion on Belleville Online was a bit much…

I’ll be at ITEC tomorrow for Custom. This means that I’ll be away from my e-mail for about 8 hours on Wed. and Thu. prospectively. That is a suck. Anyway, if you feel like it, drop by and taunt me. It’s at the Novi Expo Center from 10-4 both days.

Oh, we launched the new Custom site today, that makes version 4? 5? Yes, I’m sick enough to have them all archived. Hey, that makes me wonder, since I do control these things, do you think I could bribe them by treatening to put that old 1996 thing back up? hrmmmm….

PayPal is causing a stir. With banner ads not working, revenues falling off for super sites like slashdot, and several others, up steps paypal. The concept of micropayments seems interesting at first glance. Read this article for a clearer understanding. Or, join paypal… hehe be among the first to see if it flies or not. (found on metafilter)

I’m tired of sitting around wishing didn’t have so much stuff to do. I’m not enjoying life doing stuff for others anymore. I enjoy writing very much, such as you may be able to read. So, on that note I’ve decided that I’m not going to wait for time, or anything. I’m just going to start writing again. I’m looking for good technolocigal topics, as well as places to publish to. Any suggestions from anyone would be helpful. It’ll be nice to publish again, wish me luck.

“Been around the world and found that only stupid people are breeding, the cretins cloning and feeding… and I don’t even own a T.V.” – Harvey Danger

Working on stuff tonight, not much to say. Thanks Dave for linking to me, that’s the foundation of the web. None of this other promotion crap works, just cross-linking and good content… that’ll get visitors to your site.

Dean’s Homepage
Dean’s homepage is moving up in the world. I noticed some strange guy with a frying pan on his page linked to this site through his exit gallery.

If that doesn’t make you famous, I don’t know what does.

I’ll third the dead thing!
It’s always fun getting a new toy and it sounds like 3 for the price of 1.
So which did come first? The chicken or the egg?

My Dreamweaver UltraDev shipped today, it shipped with a copy of Cold Fusion Enterprise Server and IBM Websphere Application Server. Now, I need to install Windows NT on one of these junk pentium 100’s that I have here, that doesn’t have a CD-ROM… problems, problems. I just got a Caldera machine running Apache I’m having trouble getting PHP to build, sheesh. That’ll make 5 machines running here at Paxtonland. My neighbors think I’m crazy, my family knows I am.

I am looking forward to trying ASP with this. It’s got to be better than visual interdev, which wouldn’t even properly install itself. The only trouble that I can forsee thus far, is that it’s really more than this machine can handle. I’d better get serious about building the new machine.

No entries today, far to busy… whoooo boy! Plenty of time for sleep when you are dead!

Pimpwar – The online pimping game is about to start up again. I participated in the beta a few months back, also in the current 1st. game. I won’t tell you who I am, but I will tell you that I’m in the top 2% of 5,000+. This is a terribly socially irresponsible, yet extremely amusing turn based game. The new game is set to start soon and it is first come, first serve sign up. So if you wanna play, check daily starting on the 14th.

Dean, I sent you mail at paxton@ais.org……in case you can’t get to it until later, use this…

tell dean

Memories……what a trip. Was in basic training 22 years ago and haven’t thought of my asigned name since then. I wore the groovy oversized, darken when needed glasses back then (oh those late 70’s were cruel). Of course one look at those on my face and the D.I. promptly gave me the name of Elton John. Everyone in the squad called and knew me as John from that point on. Thanks Dean!

Gary and I were talking about names. It seems that everyone has to either shorten, lengthen, or convolute your name somehow. They simply can’t stick to your given name, they have to give themselves ownership of it by changing it somehow. Strange. I remember it being said about boot camp, in order to fully to control a person, the first thing you take away is thier identity. So, you never are never called by your name outside roll calls. Even then, it is your last name. The rest of the time… well, lets just say that they call you a myriad of different things, none are exactly endearing. Deep social commentary once again by Dean!

Well they were very good. They didn’t play an awful long time and they didn’t do a lot of the old stuff. Michael tells me that they are breaking up after this tour and that Robert Smith is going out on his own. hrmmmm.

OK….silly me. “I didn’t know that you could use a &lt li &gt”. I guess that proves that. Also should read “An &lt html &gt document inside an &lt html &gt document”….

Dean, you had a perfect evening to see The Cure at the “Nob”. I saw them with the Pixies at the Palace a long time ago. We stuck it out yesterday at Michigan Speedway until the rain stopped the race. Fusinski.com IS useful. I took a look at the source code and learned a few things. I didn’t know that you could use