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Tag - I'm it?
I feel like I just got hit by the dodgeball in elementary school gym class. In a unique game of tag, I'm supposed to tell everyone five things that they didn't know about me. Well, here goes:
1. I spent 6 years in the United States Army as a Military Policeman. I served in quite a few places overseas, incuding time as a NATO peacekeeper in Bosnia.
2. I once assisted the Secret Service in guarding President Clinton. My unenviable task was keeping the press corps from standing in front of a Secret Service SUV packed with every armament imaginable. There was an agent sitting behind the wheel with one foot on the brake, and the other on the gas, with the idea that if there was a threat, he would gun the engine and drive forward in order for the rest of the agents to retrieve heavier firepower. While I'm quite sure that no-one present was overly fond of the press, no-one wanted the headline "Government Agent Creates Speedbump Out of CBS Cameraman. Film at 11." I met the President again shortly after this assignment.
3. Before I was old and slow, I ran track and cross-country in high-school. Back in the day, I used to be able to run a sub-5 minute mile, and once ran a "short" 5k in under 16 minutes. Not world record stuff, mind you, but not bad.
4. I got into Information Technology after leaving the service. I had applied for the Cobb County police department in Georgia, and was waiting for my academy date. While waiting, I applied for an internet tech support job. When my academy date rolled around, I was already a supervisor making almost twice what I would as a police trainee. I stuck with my new career, and here I am eight years later! (I still watch law & order for my cops & robbers 'fix').
5. I would like to try my hand at writing a technical book, but I always feel that it would be a bit presumptuous of me.
Now for the "tag" part - Tag: Yang Cao, Wally McClure, Rob Mensching, DonXML, and Erik Porter. -
I'm in Beta
Credit goes to Michael Trantow for the following:
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[OT] : Best Wishes for Jenny and Paul
I try to keep this blog on topic, but when a dear friend like Paul Wilson suffers a personal issue like this, I have to take pause.
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Have ildasm, will travel.
I'm suffering from a severe form of Senior-itis.
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Patterns
We've all been exposed to Design Patterns, and their indelible impressions are apparent in any well designed software.
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DevDays 2004
I attended DevDays here in Atlanta today, and had a pleasant lunch with Paul Wilson. It was good to catch up with him - it's always refreshing to talk to someone smarter than me. We shared a table with Jeff Prosise for lunch. Ok, that's me name dropping, because I don't believe that I said more than two words to Jeff. I'm always afraid that I'll sound like some FanBoy when I talk to the authors I consider "Great." (That's a short list, by the way.)
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Weblogger BoF
Well, a few other people have posted about the Weblogger's BoF, with mostly good stuff to say. Frankly, I was rather disappointed. I realize that bloggers are by nature “Type A” personalities, but c'mon! Clemens Vasters talked far too much about himself (really!). He also spent far too much time gloating over how much Das Blog is better than .Text. Perhaps it was in jest, perhaps not, it was difficult to tell. It was also difficult to hear anyone else speak, as Vasters did not often yield the floor.
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Destination... PDC
Like most other people have mentioned, getting into LA today has been an adventure - 1 hour flight delay for me in Atlanta waiting for weather to clear, and then another hassle coming into LA becuase of the problem with the forest fires - apparently, the fires weren't a threat to LAX, but to a 'flight control facility' located elsewere, and there weren't enough flight controllers to handle the traffic into the LA area. Fortunately for me, my flight was carrying precious cargo (To be specific, we had human kidneys on board being transported for a transplant). That gave us priority to land at LAX, and so here I am at the Wilshire Grand. If anyone wants to ring me, just call the Wilshire (rm 1082).
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[OT] Google Recursion
I found this link humorous in a dry sort of way: