GodsendJen

Online dating caries with it implicit risks. You never know when that anonymous Mr. Right is a personal stalker waiting to happen.  The trunk of his sports car might be filled with guns, knives, rocks or worse--computer equipment.  But the biggest risk is the one you probably don't give a second thought to...that a coworker with PhotoShop might happen upon your profile.  Then just imagine the fun they might have with all those photos of you enjoying yourself in the great outdoors.  If you are a shirtless male with a porn star caliber mustache...well hot dawg we're in business.

If it turns out this is my last post...well it just indicates that my coworker Bruce, the former Marine pictured here, doesn't share our sense of humor.  If that is the case I only hope our government trained him in the art of the quick and painless death.

You might have noticed some issues with the site this week. On Monday I decided to upgrade my blogging software. This is a simple task.  Download files from Source Forge.  Change some configuration settings.  Upload the files to my website.  Unfortunately I discovered some problems with my FTP access during the upload.  It allowed just enough FTP wizardry to break the old version of the site, but not enough to install the new version. It has taken a couple of days for the hosting provider to work this out.  But we are back up and running.  Unfortunately I've lost the visual modifications I'd made to the old site, the blogroll and some other links I'd included.  I hope to have them all back by the end of the weekend.  Until then you are stuck with this skinable site.  Just be aware that not all of the themes in that drop down list will work with my content.

I've been playing with a new photo site online called Tablo.  They do poster style arrangements of your photos in varrying layouts.  This one has pictures of my last trip to Virginia. Click on it to view it in real size.

I've been using some of my free time on this assignments to work on some personnel projects.  This blog site is one, the other two are an online photo gallery and a web-based recipe database program.  The blog is obviously up and done in C#/.Net so that I can fiddle when the urge hits.  The recipe program is something I'm writing myself, and it too is going to be in C#/.Net.  For the photos I am selling-out.  Maybe I'm just not as concerned about customization, or maybe its because their are just so many free photo programs that you never need to do the work yourself.  Either way I'm going PHP and MySQL for it. Yes, I'm actually using something with a MySQL backend when I have ready access to a SQL Server here. I'll find a way to live with that decision somehow.