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I had a dream that I was living in a world where common sense and decency didn't exist. Then the horror set in. I was awake.

Vet Arrested for Defending Himself
Teen Carrying Puppy Choked by Law Enforcement

This is a terribly sad set of circumstances to end the month on. Law enforcement is out of control. They are THE law. This was demonstrated clearly here in Madison Wisconsin when a police officer opened fire, point blank and center mass, on a drunken young man. The officer said he felt threatened. This is now justification for execution. Why a highly trained law enforcement agent would ever feel threatened is beyond comprehension. They are supposed to be highly skilled in the art of combat. They have pepper spray. They have a baton. They have a tasar. They have all the tools neccessary to protect and serve the community. They have the physical and psychological skill to protect themselves in any combat situation. Unloading your firearm point blank into the torso of a drunken, unarmed man is a disgrace to the uniform. This man is not a warrior. He is a coward. He is a cold blooded killer. He is still on the police force. No charges were brought against him.

An FBI agent interrogating an individual who may have had information related to the Boston Marathon bombing shot him to death. Reports are he had six bullet wounds in his torso. He also had a single bullet hole in the back of his head. He was shot because the agent said he felt threatened. Apparently, this is all any law enforcement agent has to say to justify execution in this country. The nightmare is reality. We are living in a police state. I said this before. Laws are not worth a shit if they are not enforced. Civil rights don't exist anymore. The Constitution of the United States is a past memory. This is the real horror. Our lives aren't worth a fucking nickle. We can be executed at any time for any reason. This is the message, loud and clear.

There are more stories. A 72 year old man was gunned down in his drive way by several police officers. He had a pistol with him because he was going to check on his next door neighbor. His alarm went off. He thought the man needed help. It sounds like the police are trying to white wash the entire incident, fabricating excuses why they had to shoot this man. From what I have read, he was the salt of the Earth. I suspect nothing will be done about it. I more than suspect. This is how things are going to be done. Human life is cheap. There are too many of us as it is. The more surplus human beings culled from the herd, the better.


 

I don't like what I am hearing about this seizure of Liberty Reserve. It does sound like organized crime was having a wonderful time working the snot out of this payment processor. What I do not like hearing is the government's contention that, "The people who accepted Liberty Reserve’s currency were overwhelmingly criminal in nature."

That is a rather broad stroke to be painting this early into the investigation. I know that MLM people with legitimate products to sell used Liberty Reserve to facilitate the buying and selling of these products. The products themselves might have been crap, but they weren't illegal. This will be an interesting case to watch.

I was looking at news and ran across this.

American retailer J.C. Penny has been criticised on Twitter and Reddit for advertising a kettle that bore a remarkable similarity to Adolf Hitler.
Judge for yourself. Is this a remarkable similarity to Adolf Hitler?

Have a nice day.  


 

The theme for today is survival.
I could go off on a tangent but it would not serve a positive purpose. I am powerless to change the course that lies before me. Human life is cheap. It always has been and today is no exception. Globalization continues at the social, political and financial level. Our knowledge, experience, and technology are useless. The 21st century has no place for wisdom or compassion. Financial power is god and we are diminished by this worship. I have my dreams. I have manged to hang on to a modicum of hope but I am afraid this is slipping through my fingertips. I am making efforts to stay focused on those things that have brought me joy in the past and will do so in the remaining days of my life. I pray these days are many but I am not counting on it.

On a more positive note, it was one year ago that I last worked for Mike Foss of Dun Rite Insulation here in Stoughton, Wisconsin. You may recall the circumstances. If not, have a look at the letter of record on file with the Department of Workforce Development.


 

It is time. I have done all the preliminary leg work. Years have been wasted. Time could have been used more wisely. I dare even admit that I have squandered life foolishly. Despite this unfortunate circumstance, I have arrived here at this time and this place whole. I am wiser. I am educated. Great potential lies before me. I have little to complain about. Life has not been kind to me. The the great unwashed are what they are. The greatest weapon being used against humanity is fear. I can't blame the ignorant for living in fear. I'm afraid all the time. I have not let fear rule me. This distinction is what sets me apart from the buffoon. Do I owe my fellow man the time of day? I can not and I will not cast pearls before swine. I will not hate those spawned in the shallow end of the gene pool. I will not ridicule them. I will not stoop to the level of a brute. Don't ask me to turn the other cheek or to love those who persecute me. Enemies will be dealt with as such. I will cross no path. Those who cross mine will be held accountable.

I figured out how to switch my desktop environment from Gnome to MATE and others in my Fedora 18 OS. I really like MATE. It is quick. Gnome is clunky and it is slow. I will look at the others I have choices for, but I like MATE and I may as well stick with it.

If I am to live another 20 years and live well, I must put forth a tremendous amount of effort. All my previous experience may not have prepared me for the task that lies before me, but I will succeed. Failure is not an option. It never has been. It can not be so now.

Excellent commentary from Carl Bernstein.


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I like to go back a year and sometimes two to see what the hell I was ranting about. It keeps me honest. I tend to dwell on things. I am the poster child for kicking dead horses. I whine and cry about the same topics. I complain about my perpetual weakness. I seldom lift myself up and change what the hell it is that is eating my craw. Deep down inside my gut, I am convinced that true change is hopeless. I thought I would go back a couple years and see what Ted was ranting about. It isn't a pretty picture but as I have said, the Truth isn't alway pretty. That is an understatement.

A woman who worked in the mailroom quit. She was fed up with the sham. I don't blame her. We were hired to do a specific task by an outside employer. We are not employees of the company we show up to each day to earn a living. There is a contractual agreement to this effect. Is it followed? Fuck no. Is that a breach of contract? Sure it is. Isn't that against some law on a set of books someplace? I imagine it is. Does anyone give a flying fuck?

When we were hired, we were told, "This is your job. If you are asked to do anything else besides what we are telling you what your job is, tell us. We need to know". The employers know this is show. When we come to work, we have to do what ever the fuck they tell us to do. If we don't, they will call our employers and tell them we aren't doing what we are being told to do. Before it comes to that, we are threatened. It is made clear that we should throw ourselves down on our fucking knees and be grateful we even have a fucking job. Comments have been made to me in regards to my age. Fear tactics. Plain and simple. I have to realize the economy is in the shit hole and if I don't do two jobs (or more), for nothing, I won't have a fucking job and I will end up in the gutter.

The woman who walked did so for good reasons. She exercised her rights as a human being not to be shit on. She isn't a slave and she was fed up being treated as such. It hasn't worked out for her. She isn't going to be able to collect unemployment. The facts are not going to be investigated. Whatever the fuck this piece of shit workplace says happened is what happened. She isn't going to find another job. She is pushing 40 and has already experienced age discrimination in the work force. She is not strong mentally or emotionally. Does anyone care? Not really.

We are all just a paycheck away from the reality that we are nothing but chattle. We bury our heads deep into our television sets and our small groups of hillbilly friends and think we are better than this. The Truth is not pretty. That is what I like about this video Ted made two years ago. It was true then and the Truth is right in our faces today.


**Note**

A few hours have passed and the fever that comes over me from time to time has subsided. I realize without a shadow of any doubt that I could be far worse off than I presently find myself. The fact that I have the mental and physical skill to do twice the work of the average moron does not justify corporate greed. As they say in the trade, "I will find a work around". I may have to work hard, but I can also milk this job for all it is worth too. God Bless America.


 

I do love an honest point of view. The general consensus is that the politicians in Washington are shady, self serving swine. Ted Torbich goes the extra mile.



Not much else going on. I come home worn to a frazzle coping with the insanity called modern civilization and the constant wade through manure in oder to earn my daily bread.


 

This is a nice little widget from Flickr. I had uploaded these pics awhile ago. I remember doing this from my Twitter account. I read in the news this morning that since Yahoo bought Flickr, they bumped the storage space to 1TB. That is a lot of space for photos. I like photography. I am not a whiz. I am just an average hack, but I can take some nice pictures.



I like the picture of me doing the kick. This was taken on my 50th birthday. When I see that I still have the potential to do things, I kick myself in the ass for getting lazy and not training. I used Photoshop to "paste" me into the scene. Not perfect but not bad.

The May curse is raising it's ugly head. I could go on and dredge the minute details of injustice into the light of day, but I can reduce them into a single observation; I'm dealing and working with hillbillies. That is the crux of all the problems associated with living in Wisconsin. I am inundated with ignorance. The stench of the great unwashed fills the air. Working with morons is like being in a constant shit storm. Even when you are not being pelted by shit, you are constantly reminded of the smell. I could be worse off. I could be working at the Wallgreen's Distribution Center in Windsor, Wisconsin. I blame myself. I should have worked harder to create a career. I should have studied computer science back at the University of Wisconsin Lacrosse from 1976-1980. I'd be a millionaire. I'd have created a career that would have brought me a great deal of personal satisfaction. My inability to come to grips with better preparing myself for the future has come back to haunt me. I can not change the past. I can change the present. Age should not be a factor, even though it is. I have to put this demon to rest. If I don't, it will consume me. I have to keep my head down and my mouth closed for now. I have my computer studies to increase my knowledge. I have my martial arts to keep me healthy. I need to conjure the fire I used to have burning inside me. The flames have dwindled and the remaining embers are not adequate to fuel the passion I need to finish this journey.


 

Powerball numbers for 05/18/2013 are:
10 13 14 22 52 Powerball 11

The estimated Grand Prize was $590,500,000 ($370,900,000 cash). There was one Grand Prize winning ticket in the state of Florida!

Congratulations to the winner or winners in Florida who bought the lucky ticket. Fate must have wanted you to have it. I won nothing. I am surprised at the final figure. I was reading the hype the media was cooking up. Sales were $1 million per hour in many states playing this lottery. In some, it was even slightly higher. How are we to really know how much loot was racked in by the sale of Powerball lottery tickets? We don't.

It reminds me back when I was working in the casino industry. A skim was being taken right off the top of our tokes. Tokes was the general term used to describe the daily tips customers gave the table dealers. Those of us who depended on them to live called them gratuities. Gratuities are a gift. Uncle Sam did not see it that way. The IRS saw tokes as income. Anyway, until the final daily figure hit payroll, tokes were unaccountable cash. In one particular casino I worked in, the casino executives decided $60 a day in tips plus the pay for 8 hours a day at minimum wage was enough for us. We were pulling in $100 or more in tips per day. Figure $40 a day skim multiplied by 350 table dealers per 24 hour shift. That totals to $14,000 PER DAY. Whose pocket did this unaccountable, non IRS reported cash end up in? In the opening scenes of the movie Casino, a mysterious figure walks into the counting room of the Tangiers Hotel and Casino. Employees are standing at large tables counting cash. This man walk up to a cabinet, opens it up, and fills a large black leather bag up with cash and walks out. He boarded a private plane and went straight to Kansas City to deliver the cash to his boss.

People don't have to make the trip anymore. The cut is being made for them. That is if organized crime is still collecting points from the casino daily take. I wouldn't know. I don't know where an average of $14,000 a day of unaccountable cash is going at just this one casino in Las Vegas. There are 100's of them and table dealers are collecting tokes 365 days a year.

Is the lottery above this practice? You can argue that ALL the money is accountable because the machines producing the tickets keep a rolling tally of all monies being collected. Machines do what they are programmed to do. Machines can be reset. Where there are ungodly sums of cash, there is greed. Greed is one of the seven deadly sins. Greed is destroying this planet. I wasn't born yesterday and neither were most of you. The lotteries of this country can sit there and tell me this business is legitimate and that all proceeds are going to the lottery winners and to paying what ever state taxes the charters governing these lotteries adhere to. I do not believe it. The Grand Prize of $590,500,000 is an after skim total. That is my opinion and I stand by it. Will I continue to play the Powerball? I might not. I will continue to play the Badger 5 daily drawing offered here in the state of Wisconsin. The odds are better and with payouts frequently reaching over $100,000, it works for me. I have had 4 out of 5 numbers twice. Third time is the charm. In fact, tonight's drawing is estimated at $120,000. This is all I really need. If people are stealing something off the top before I get my hands on it, fuck them. Fuck Powerball.

On a side note, I referred to our daily tokes as a "bone". A bone was $100. With all the billions of dollars being sucked into the gambling vortex, I figured $100 was nothing more than a scrap off the table. If I wasn't getting $100 a day in tokes, I wasn't being paid what I deserved.

The shit is getting deep.


 

Norwegian heritage of many of Stoughton's citizens is celebrated each year as our entire town and thousands of guests observe Syttende Mai. The words "Syttende Mai" are Norwegian for "seventeen May", and we hold the event on the weekend closest to May 17.

On that day in 1814, the Norwegian Constitution was signed, giving Norway independence from its 500 year union with Denmark. Stoughton's Syttende Mai celebration dates back as far as 1868, when Norwegian immigration to this part of Wisconsin was reaching its peak.

Syttende Mai is a very colorful, gala, family-oriented affair with many people wearing authentic Norse costumes. There are folk dancing performances by the world famous Stoughton Norwegian Dancers, exhibits of Norwegian rosemaling (painting) and hardanger (needlework),woodcarving, Norse costume style show, Norwegian church services, smorgasbord of Norwegian foods, a variety of musical performances, and an Ugliest Troll Drawing contest.

It's that time of year again. Summer is on the cusp and Stoughton, Wisconsin is celebrating Syttende Mai. I live one block off main street so it is possible to watch the crowds first hand. I might get out and do some people watching, but on the other hand, I honestly don't care. On my days off, I'd just as soon enjoy solitude.

Discovered a different editing tool in my Fedora 18 OS. It is called Geany. I will use it to edit my HTML. It has a run feature so I can view what the finished product looks like in my browser before I upload it to the server. I can work with JavaScript too. It is a nice little IDE for the HTML5 power user. If I graduate to full blown HTML5 web application development, I can use The Kate IDE. I know I am feeling comfortable using the Fedora 18 OS because I forgot I was even using it. I will have to use Windows to work with Powershell. It is boiling down to working with Powershell will be the only exception. Otherwise, I intend to keep using Linux. There is such a depth of computer knowledge at my disposal I don't know where to turn. I have a plan on the drawing board that involves Powershell, so that has to be my number one focus. I have to obtain a certain degree of mastery to enable this plan to work. That means training with it everyday. It all boils down to living a better structured, organized, and disciplined life.

I was just looking at the news and ran across this article about Chinese tourists giving the mainland a bad reputation for being rude. To prove their point, a video from YouTube was posted ...



A young woman from China who works in the office made a remark to me that I thought was racist. She said that the people from Hong Kong were not really Chinese, and they didn't speak Chinese. They were HongKongese. The anomosity between mainland Chinese and people from Hong Kong is evident in the video. This is the real story. The man in this video from the mainland may or may not feel the same way, but it is clear the peanut gallery took some relish in telling him to fuck off and go back to where he came from.


  Powerball Lottery News

I can't let the day pass without making a comment about the Powerball mania gripping the nation. CNN was reporting earlier this afternoon that the final jackpot could reach $925 million. That is CNN for you. All they do is shoot their mouths off creating frenzy through speculation. CNN should be ashamed of themselves. They are nothing but media whores.

The final jackpot will be a record setting lottery win. In fact, it will be the largest lottery jackpot on record; Powerball or Mega Millions. I predict $700 million by the time the stampede gets finished buying tickets all day tomorrow. That is fucking insane. I have four sets of numbers; two I picked myself and the other two were quick picks. At $3 a pop, we are talking $12. I might as well have lit a match to this money, but for $12 I can dream of a life with one less thing to worry about -- having enough money to survive. That is my present condition. I am financially hanging by my finger nails. I am not implying I deserve to win. I don't deserve shit. I would like to win something.

One last comment. A guy at work says someone he knows quit his job and withdrew what cash funds he had to his name out of the bank. His job for the past week was this. He was going to select an outlet selling tickets and spend $250-$500 there. He would take the tickets home and analyze them. The following day he would take his spending money for the day to a different outlet and repeat the process. He was going to spend money at as many outlets here in the Madison, WI. area as he could so he could cover all the bases. I asked this guy, "does your friend realize in order to cover all his bases he needs to purchase 175 million tickets?" I don't know how much money he is investing in this scheme. Let's say he has $5000. That is 2500 tickets. The odds he will come out ahead on the deal are slim. That is putting it lightly. Gambling is evil. You can cut legal hairs all you want. I worked in the casino business for 12 years. I know evil when I see it. Sure, I'm in this but I'm not fooling myself. I know what I'm getting into.


 

Not much to report. Just playing here with Filezilla inside Fedora. Things are OK. I know my future does not lie in working for the Temporary Agency I am currently employed with. They are what they are. I need to keep pushing the envelope. I don't have all the time in the world at my disposal and there is so much unfinished business left. If I have any regrets, it is not realizing this sooner. Time is not our friend. Time is the cage that enslaves us.


 

I am a geek. I think I can say this with a fair amount of certainty. I am not a programmer. I know 1% of what hard core computer IT professionals know, but I have done some things that I think bestow geek status to this humble seeker of knowledge. I got Fedora 18 installed. I got it working. I updated it through the terminal. I got Filezilla working. I typed this blog and updated it completely within Fedora 18. I don't need Windows 7 to do 99% of the things I do when I turn my computer on. I can read any file format. I can listen to my music and watch video. I can surf and check email. I have access to some extremely powerful programs that can do amazing things. When I first bought a computer in 1996, I didn't know jack shit. I know a great deal more than the average Windows mouse monkey. I need to keep pushing. I have let Powershell slide. I shouldn't. I worked far too long and hard to let that skill go to waste. I am seriously looking at functional programming. That involves Scheme or Haskell. It also involves following this program I found and learning a programming language that has been created that is a subset of Scheme. This programming language is called Racket. I think following the program set up by the people who created Raket is a great way to go learning about how to program. It is a nice feeling to realize potential. I have to hang onto this. I still have a long ways to go in my personal and financial life. As for today, I can put my troubled mind to rest, temporarily. I am capable of creating good things.

Raket

 

I am a glutton for punishment. I re-installed Fedora 18 back onto my external hard drive. This time around it went rather smoothly. I knew what to do and in what order. I even discovered some additional applications to download and test. I am impressed with this open source OS. I also did some further research into what the Fedora Project is about. It is a testing grounds for new code and applications Red Hat is evaluating before they decide to bring it into their commerecial Red Hat projects. The community of Linux users should relay any bugs or work arounds directly to the people at Red Hat. It isn't an OS to critise or complain about. Besides, it is FREE! Any negative remarks are not acceptable. I am at this moment writting this post using pluma. This is a notepad program that has some very nice features. It puts Micosoft Notepad to shame. Once I figure out how to use Filezilla from Fedora 18, I won't have to use Windows to update my website. I can do almost everything I need to using this Linux OS.


 

The Powerball is at insane levels again. The Powerball reminds me of a TV show I saw once back when I was still watching television. This asian man was running a scam. It was in essence a lottery. People would have a tile and this large urn held all the tiles. One was drawn. One would win the jackpot --- maybe. Loosing paid a price. If you lost, you had to sacrifice a kidney or an eyeball. The man running this scam was involved in the sale of human organs for transplant. It was a scam because no one actually won the jackpot. It was designed that way. Everyone who played lost. Powerball is different. One ticket will win eventally. The only price tp pay is the cost of a ticket, or the cost of mant tickets. When he was caught, this man was asked how he could justify this scam. He never intended to deliver on his promise of winning. He did not provide anything of value to those who participated. He replied,

I did provide something. I provided hope.

I think about this when I play Powerball. The odds of winning the grand prize are 175,223,510 to 1. This coming Wednesday drawing on the 15th has a jackpot of $350,000,000. The payout is excellent compared to the odds. With the frenzy this large potential sum will generate, the final tally could well be $400,000,000. That is a lot of bread.

On the local level, the Wisconsin Badger 5 daily draw is up to $242,000. The odds of winning the Badger 5 jackpot are 169,911 to 1. Again, the payout is very good compared to the odds. The Badger 5 normally hits around $60,000 on the average. No one has snagged it and it has grown to this sizable amount in the past three days. I suspect this dollar amount will be much larger before the final numbers are drawn tonight. It could easily reach $300,000. Unfortunately, I will be heading out to the local Kwik Trip convenience store and spend what scarce spare dollars I have on the hope of winning either of these lottery jackpots. The proceeds of the state lottery are supposed to produce monies for education, municipal projects, etc. I don't know where the money goes. I'm not seeing any tangible benefits at the state level. I believe lotteries are a scam designed to produce nothing of real financial value overall. They produce hope. The ability to produce hope is a power that controls large numbers of people. A prime example is the current presidential administration.

Off to the store. As the saying goes,

A fool and his money are soon parted.

One of my greater strengths is knowing I am a fool.

One last comment. If I had a Mother, I would wish her a "Happy Mother's Day". I never had one, so I can't bestow any good wishes upon her. I can say this,

Hell will be several degrees hotter when your waste of human skin tosses off the mortal coil. This day will be one to celebrate in the years to follow.

 


"Tell me your secrets."

I'm not a fan of Facebook. I have been following the political and technological developments of Facebook's influence in these realms. I don't have an opinion on what I think of them. I don't think they are beneficial to humanity in the long run. I think this young man is sinister and has ties to those working behind the veil.

I'm doing ok. I have unfinished business that needs attendance. This isn't good. I'm trying to throw off these shackles of procrastination. I lost hope. That is my main problem. I feel powerless to change what I perceive to be a growing fascist, ultra-right wing mind set that is spreading like a cancer in the global political structure of this planet. I see it here in Wisconsin. It is an arrogance. It is a self-righteous and self-centered philosophy hell bent on implementing this global New World Order. People were afraid of loosing civil liberties. Little did they realize or imagine the crushing poverty that it would impose. God help us.

I've had it with Fedora 18. The reviews are correct I fear. From what I saw, they were negative and I agree. It crashes and burns. I upgraded the Grub2 loader and the OS turned into a cow pie. Looks like I will have to focus on Windows for now. I am thinking of trying an earlier version of Fedora but I need to buy some DVD's do I can burn a desk-top copy, install it, and see if I can make it work. I like some of the Linux applications. What a waste this version 18 turned out to be. It was a learning experience.


LONDON – After much back and forth on Wednesday, Prof. Stephen Hawking retracted his statement that he pulled out of the fifth President’s Conference in Jerusalem because of ill health and clarified that it was because he supports an academic boycott of Israel,

I have received a number of emails from Palestinian academics, Hawking said in the letter. They are unanimous that I should respect the boycott. In view of this I must withdraw from the conference.

Presidential Conference chairman Israel Maimon responded to Hawking’s announcement on Wednesday saying that his decision was unjustifiable and wrong,

The academic boycott against Israel is in our view outrageous and improper, certainly for someone for whom the spirit of liberty lies at the basis of his human and academic mission. Israel is a democracy in which all individuals are free to express their opinions, whatever they may be. The imposition of a boycott is incompatible with open, democratic dialogue.

Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, director of Shurat HaDin – Israel Law Center, called Hawking’s boycott hypocritical,

His whole computer-based communication system runs on a chip designed by Israel’s Intel team. I suggest that if he truly wants to pull out of Israel, he should also pull out his Intel Core i7 from his tablet.

If Stephen Hawking doesn't wish to attend this conference, that is his business. Asking him to pull the plug on his communication system is vicious. I'm tired of reading stories of Jewish over reactions. If a Palestinian looks at them side ways, they start bull dozing their homes. If one Jew gets into a scrap and gets a bloody nose out of it, the army steps in and butches women and children. If you don't like my opinion and observations on the matter, fuck off. I've had good friends who were Jewish. Point your anti-Semite finger elsewhere. The politicians in the USA take their marching orders from the state of Isreal. I don't.

Tell it like it is



To Jeffrey Skilling, the former Enron Corp chief executive. You have no business getting 10 years of jail time trimmed from your sentence. You are a thieving scum bag who deserves to rot in your own stink. The reason you are being cut loose is because the rest of your tribe didn't go to jail for stealing every last fucking nickle the American working man and woman had put aside the past 50 years. Why should you?


 

I have taken very few pictures of myself and put them in here. I think the last one was almost two years ago. I have a picture of myself one day prior to my 55th birthday. This picture was taken today. I am growing my hair back. I let the top get to a reasonable length and then I grow out the sides in layers. I will add one more layer and go with it for now. My hair used to look nice. Now I realize it is quickly turning to shit like the rest of me. 55 was a turning point. Up until then, I was relatively fit regardless of my slowly but surely decline of not exercising like a fiend. Now I have no real choice. If I don't embrace my old philosophy of training like a crazed madman, I am going to rapidly transform into a fat and weak old man. Life is cruel.

On a lighter note, I have advanced in my knowledge of computers. I have come to a better understanding about programming languages. I have been able to work with Fedora 18. I like it. Since my HP computer died an untimely death, I rigged up my old standby eMachine. I ran Windows XP on. It really doesn't have the guts to run Windows 7, but I have no choice at the moment. I can not afford to spend the money on a new machine. I am not even going to buy a different car. I can ride to Madison in the State Van Pool. I don't know what kind of job I will have come the end of June, if not sooner. This is a long story and I am digressing from my positive outlook, so I'll stop here. I will say this,. I will never purchase an HP computer again.

Here is a picture of my rig -- IAmOZ. Best damn machine I have owned.

I will continue learning more about programming languages. I am going to learn more about BASH and the Linux OS. I have no choice but to get back into fighting form. The world is collapsing around my ears. I might as well grasp what joy is left in living while I can. Sadly, I fear the time left to do this is minimal.


 

The cursed month of May. I say this tongue in cheek because I have found myself unemployed way too many times in May to be a mere coincidence. It has been an outright curse. Take a look at my resume. I will have to remember to keep my mouth shut this month and lay low in the workplace. The current job I have isn't a career and it isn't anything to brag about, but it is paying the bills. I have to keep it for now.

I was getting in touch with my inner computer geek over the week-end. I installed Fedora 18 on an exterior hard drive. I had Fedora 9 on this hard drive for sometime now but never really figured out how to use it well. I am getting the hang of this Fedora OS and I like it. I intend to read the GNU BASH manual and get a handle on using this shell. It never hurts to extend your computer horizons. Windows is huge but Microsoft isn't the only game in town.






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