Tales from our World

Well, I have created a new blog…my tech bits.  Which I think is a more accurate to what I post.  Anyway, the content has moved, and this is the last post here.

Well, I wanted to start writing more specific things, and so I have created a new blog called Deus Ex Code. So, you will find all my writings there from now on, including LOTS of system administration things (which is kinda what I’m trying to focus on).

Update 6/16/2007: I changed my mind, I’m back…long story. I’ll move the little content I has there back over here.

Is it just me, or do they need to put a designated psycho on every season?

the week is finally coming to a close, it’s been a very busy week. I really need some downtime, Michael is sick, and I have a sinus infection (swell). As usual, I have some downtime, and there is nothing on TV.

Ahh…Sunday morning, it’s my favorite part of the week. We all just hang out in bed, playing with the kids, and using the laptop. Hopefully, this week will go smoothly, finish up a project or two, and we are adding someone to the AWD team. This will be our first time really adding a full time (or close to full time person). They are coming on as a contractor at first, and we’ll see how things go from there.

For those of you who don’t know, we are being audited in the coming weeks by none other than the IRS. It’s really not as bad as everyone makes it seems as long as you are able to show record of all the things you put on your tax return. So far I’ve learned this:
Be religiously organized. Putting all your papers in a box and sorting through it three years later to find a receipt is not fun. Now I’m starting a binder system where all receipts and statements are neatly sorted into binders so things are easy to find. I’m making a binder for each QB account that way I can easily follow all the transactions in QB and ensure we have receipts for everything. This effort is absolutely worth the effort wants it comes to filing your tax return or being audited.

I’m sure there will be more to share as the “interview” nears. Keep posted!

I have jury duty Tuesday. I want to do it, but it kinda sucks right now because I am super busy. More to come on this one.

Update: Well, quite a let down. There were 3 trials scheduled, 1 of the trials pled out, and 2 were set to go. We got divided, into 2 pools, and the defendant for the trial I was assigned to didn’t bother to show up, so I got to come home.

There’s an interesting thing happening on NSLog, apparently I company called “ReputationDefender”, go around looking for your name, and sending basic form letters asking you to remove their name/comments/etc from whatever you have. So, enter this Julian fellow who hired them. They contacted Eric, and wanted the comment removed. Now, I read the comment, and it just a general comment it’s not bad or anything. I would say that it didn’t effect his reputation at all…until now…I would say he looks pretty bad. Reputation Defender is a bad idea, because like many organizations, they are just sending out stupid form letters, and not looking at the content.

Holy Crap!

So, I decided to give spanning sync a try, I agree with Alex about the whole “server” thing, but that’s a topic for another discussion. Well, I made a freaking big discovery this morning, I found that spanning sync makes all your calendar entries PUBLIC!! Holy, crap!! Very Bad.

Here’s how to fix this:

1. Download your iCal to your desktop.

2. Open the file in your favorite text editor

3. Do a find and replace for PUBLIC and replace with PRIVATE.

4. Do an import back into gCal.

UPDATE: Charlie Wood (from spanningsync.com) has posted a comment to this post with his full contact information, I will post an update on this “bug” as soon as I talk with him.

Well, about 2 weeks ago, my Wii had an unfortunate encounter with a 2yr old (note: Wii’s don’t like 6 CD’s shoved in them). I sent it back to Nintendo, and when I got it back..it was a brand new Wii (minus all my virtual console games and saved game data).

Not good, so I have called Nintendo, and they were helpful, but I got a “we’ll call you back”. We’ll see what happens.