What a Year This Has Been!

Time is flying, for sure!  I've been in Greene for over a year, now.  Among other things, I've been busy on the iWarehouse project.  There have been a lot of challenges integrating a lot of different information system with a lot ofdifferent tools.  On four occasions, I spent a week in New York City, for skills-upgrade training in a lot of different technologies, like report writing tools, web application development tools, desktop application development tools, and getting web applicagtions to run like desktop applications. 

Being an election year in this country, there has been a deluge of media offerings, including one of my favourites...

Where did the Summer Go?

September 29, 2007 Wow!  I can't believe it is September is almost over, and autumn is already here.  This has been one heck of a summer.  On October 8th, I will be starting my new position with The Raymond Corporation headquarters in Greene, New York. 

When I accepted the job offer, I went out and bought an iPhone.  I spent most of September in Canada, waiting for my work visa to be approved.  Photos from the trip to Canada can be viewed in the following galleries:

• Trip To Greene - From Florence, South Carolina to Greene, crossing into Canada at Kingston, Ontario, then to Brantford.

• Port Bruce - Labour Day weekend, at Port Bruce

• Port Dover - Labour Day weekend, at Port Dover (lots of boats!)

• Go Train 2007 - Trip to the World's Biggest Bookstore in Toronto on the GO train

• SkyDome - The Toronto Blue Jays beat the Boston Red Sox on September 18th at the Rogers Centre (aka. SkyDome) in Toronto

• Greene - The trip back from Canada, beginning with the border crossing at Buffalo, New York.

I am taking a renewed interest in maintaining this site, and looking at getting the PHP Nuke actually running, along with the blog features.  Update: We've got an RSS feed.

In June, I had a neat little consulting job, where I retrieved a stolen web-site for Telluride Premier Properties.  The press release that I made can be read here.  For more details, please contact me at palevell@earthlink.net.

The new site has been up and running for a while, now...

Earlier this year, I moved this web-site to a new host, due to technical problems that could not be resolved.  Namely, the DotNetNuke installation kept getting corrupted.  The host before that got hacked.  Both of these hosts were on Windows-based platforms.  The current host is running on Unix (FreeBSD, to be exact) and I have had no problems.  I've actually got PHP Nuke installed on this site, so I can play with it, but I haven't found the time to play with it.  Anyway, I will definitely get to it before too long...

I was going to blog this, but it is too funny...

NASA'S GALILEO PROBE FINDS NO EVIDENCE FOR ELVIS ON EARTH
The Galileo science team today announced that the spacecraft's instruments failed to find any new traces of Elvis Presley during its flyby of Earth last December 8th.
     "It's a tough background subtraction problem," explained Dr. Edward B. Rock of Caltech. "We know the planet contains several thousand Elvis imitators. You have to distinguish the real thing from many objects of similar appearance."
     The method used involved interdisciplinary comparison from several of Galileo's sensors. "For example, an Elvis imitator would have a very similar appearance to Elvis in the SSI [Solid State Imaging] and NIMS [Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer] data," said Dr. Graham Finale. "But no imitator has Elvis's magnetism." Researchers combined data from Galileo's sensitive magnetometer, mounted on a 36-foot (11 meter) boom, with optical, infrared, and ultraviolet measurements. They are capable of identifying a single genuine Elvis among all the other features of Earth's landscape. This is a very sensitive technique -- a feat equivalent to standing in St. Joseph, Missouri and distinguishing a jellybean in a bowl of amphetamines in Memphis.
     Galileo investigators were cautious about ruling out the possible existence of Elvis. "We can only set an upper limit," said Dr. Rock. "And we're guessing to some extent at the profile we're looking for. If Elvis has lost weight, for instance, he'd have a different infrared signature." According to the science team, there are 0.21 plus or minus 0.17 Elvises on Earth, a number described as "consistent with zero."
     Though speculation has been published in some journals that evidence for Elvis might exist on other planets and moons in our solar system, most scientists agree that Earth is the most likely place to find him. "If, as the new results suggest, there's no Elvis on Earth," said Dr. Torrance California, "this lends weight to the supposition that he really is dead."

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November 20, 2005 Clemson won, yesterday, 13-9.  I removed the blog from this page--the frame it was in was updating too often...

November 19, 2005 Today is the big Clemson - Carolina game.  Not being much of a football fan, I'll be in Charleston, taking in some live music at the Music Farm.  I also added my blog to the bottom of this page.

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