Year: 2004

The juggling went ok. I should have had my microphone. That was a mistake not bringing it. I’m on edge about all the traffic rules now. The ticket incident hasn’t made me a better driver but I’m cop phobic now. Paranoid in a delusion sense that they are “out to get me.”

I’m calm on the outside and jittery on the inside. Must take a couple of minutes of meditation.

Student: I have too much to do today!

Master: You have exactly one day’s worth of doing to do today.

At some point I need to record her saying this: “Ewwww! Molly pewped!”

This cat has been repeating this same 1 minute video clip (0:54 2.3MB) for the past hour. Apparently her sister is on the other side of the glass just watching with amusement.

I’m totally tripped out. To the point of dysfunctionality. I’m having a hard time kicking this.

Today is my major deadline and I’m not sure that the s/w is there.

Today I have a juggling performance that I am totally unprepared for. I wanted new material and I’ll be lucky to get by with the old, stagnant material.

Tonight I have 3 things plated that need to happen at once.

Tomorrow will be hellish.

On Sunday could I rest?!

A New Day!

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This Morning

Stress and anxiety are off the charts! Yesterday I gave Tommy an over the top verbal lashing unnecessarily. He had done wrong but it should have been ignored.

Today is going to be hard. I’m overcommitted and its going to make me need to be committed.

I could give into sleep right now or I could drive on and get some work done. I shall work!

Cheers to Jethro at SpyJournal on his special day today!

The ColdFusion Developer’s Journal has published the Top 10 Web Security Tips. Although this is written using ColdFusion references, the concepts are applicable to PHP, Asp, etc. For serious web application programmers this is a must read!

1. Have an Error Handler
2. Prevent Cross-Site Scripting
3. Remove Dangerous Characters
4. Prevent Fake Form Submits
5. Stop Unauthorized Data Mining
6. Validate Parameters and Prevent SQL Injection Attacks
7. Use Server-Side Validation to Back Up Client-Side Validation
8. Harden Your Logon Code
9. Prevent Timeout Client/Session Backdoors
10. Avoid Trojan Horse Uploads

I have been meaning to give a friend this list of links since July. Time flies and so many things drop through the cracks when you have 10,000 action items. So, I cannot lay hands on my friend’s email address at the moment and I know she peaks in here so here are the links (better late than never):

http://www.korrnet.org/sb6bc/

http://www.parent-childservices.com/ has lots of checklist and fact sheets if you click “information” in the left column

http://www.allaboutmoms.com/speechchecklist.htm

http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/voice/speechandlanguage.asp

http://www.aap.org/parents.html

http://www.aacap.org/

My wife, the wealth of information, actually deserves the credit for referring those links.

Sorry for the delay.

A New Day!

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This Morning

That fluttering in my lower right chest cavity is already going to town today and I’ve had no caffiene. I failed to pull any of the anticipated overtime on this current project. Not only has that set us behind, it’s like turning down free money! I’m so irritated with myself.

Today is my family’s day at the Appalachian Homecoming. I will miss it because I did not work hard enough.

Student: I can’t stop thinking about this bad thing I did.

Master: If you think about it enough will it become good?

I had the pleasure of a phone call from someone that found my business card on a board at TCBY. I had forgotten I’d placed it there! I was able to solve their problem in a few minutes on the phone gratis. Hopefully it will come back around.

Well now. I was having a very surreal moment at the office and emailed a post that went to the ether. How funny.

Quality Programming rule #1: If you are not given a spec, write your own. I broke this rule on my current project. Today I fixed the problem and it both sent me reeling as well as gave a definite end to the work. There is much to accomplish in a very brief time.

I am going to sit down and spend a few minutes each day writing, reviewing, and revising specs on the projects I am and want to do both personal and professional. It makes all the difference in the world!