Mike – Release Canidate 4.

So it has been a little while since my last update. Things have changed. Let’s see.

• I left Delaware Technical & Community College.
• I work for Delaware Criminal Justice Information System (this may have been mentioned).
• Several programming projects started and left as vapor ware.
• Quit playing video games for the most part in January to get some of my life back.
• Switched my entire desktop experience to Debian.

To proceed in relative order. My life-long intention has always been to proceed in a self-employed direction, with a slight niche in conquering the world. I spent far too many years of my life in Delaware Tech. No ill feelings toward any of my teachers, they simply taught the programs agreed upon by the department. There was little left for me to learn at Delaware Tech, and if your not there to learn then why are you there? I decided to proceed with my life. It would be against my own politics to continue my “education” at Delaware Tech merely to acquire an expensive piece of paper.

Now for a twist. Remember that my lifes intention has always been to continue dominating the world, then why am I still working for the State? Honestly, my life is far from the point where I could support myself under my own business, and the fact is I feel quite comfortable at Delaware Criminal Justice Information System (DELJIS). At DELJIS I can work on projects that let me explore my creativity while helping society. I have no intention of leaving DELJIS for some time. By the way, ePayment is now complete for the JP courts, now is the time to pay those old speeding tickets

Unfortunately my brain has entered crunch time and several programming projects have be pressed into abandonment. These projects are listed below.

• Cup Holder (automotive car computer environment)
• Call of Duty 4 modifications and server side hacks. (I don’t play games anymore)
• MySpace wordpress widget (this is not vaporware, I just am not maintaining it and recent MySpace updates have broken it)
• Facebook wordpress plugin (Who cares)

So I finally ditched Windows completely (sort of). My only remaining Windows environments are virtual machines maintained for Photoshop and work (The state has a proprietary love affair). My distribution of choice is Debian and it is serving me well. In fact I recently acquired a new quad core server for my home, quite pleased with it so far, good to move beyond 600MHz.

Check back in 6 months or so for an update.