Sorry so Quiet

Well, I am happy to report that the Active Denial System has managed to go through its Capabilities and Limitations Assessment in quite an outstanding fashion. Of course, the work leading up to this has been rather intensive, and involved a lot of traveling. I feel like one of those professional "Road Warrior" that are flying all over the world every week to some location or another. Sadly, I never get to go to any exotic locales. Instead I go to Twentynine Palms and China Lake. Have I mentioned that I hate the desert? The climate and terrain just do not suit me!

Now that the ADS has managed to pass this milestone, I can only hope that it will get deployed somewhere. I also hope that it will get me some better TDYs! It has been humerous to be on this program though, and see some of the far out blogs from people who have no idea what they are talking about! While the system was out at Twentynine Palms, it was also apparently protecting the Pope, and doing all sorts of strange operations in and around Washington DC. Not only that, but with as many times as I have been shot by this system, I should be decomposing to a pile of goo or something. Of course, I would make derisive comments about the moonbat blogs since this system is also tied into government mind control... You know, stupid people would actually be funny if there weren't so many of them...

Oh well, just my entry for today. Have a good one.

Save Net Neutrality

Been doing a lot of stuff on Craigslist and ran across this link and though it would be worthy of posting.

I'm on 60 Minutes!

(Click on the title to see the 60 Minutes segment.) I'm in the last few seconds, but I'm there! Basically it's the shot where there are three people in a row, and I'm the one in the middle that runs away and raises my hands. I suppose I could go into the whole politics and program management of the system, but I think that would violate a few policies. Suffice it to say that everyone that I talk to is excited by this thing, and we really want to get it out to the troops. I couldn't agree more!

If you are interested in learning more about the ADS, check out the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate web page about ADS. And the applications for this are way beyond military. I know I mentioned this system in my blog on Illegal Aliens if that is any indication.

Do you have any opinions on this system? Thoughts to share?

Need a new name....

Blogalicious sucks... I just typed it in because the registration required it. I am very unhappy with it though. Please help me come up with a better name than that. Something that reflects me a bit better at least!

I Hate the 96th Comm Squadron

Okay, nothing personal, but it seems these guys take away anything that is worthwhile on the net, and block it. Normally I suppose in a corporate/military structure, this is a good thing. However, sometimes it goes just way too far! I am in the business of procuring weapons that the Air Force uses to kill people and blow stuff up with, right? So, why would a bage be blocked by the 96th Comm Squadron because it contains material about "weapons and violence"? I kid you know, that's the "Access Denied" message I got when looking up some counter-IED technology!

Further confirms my theory that people as a mass are stupid!

IE SUCKS

Okay, so pretty much everyone knows that Internet Explorer sucks... So why do 80% of the planet insist on using it? I have this really cool background image for the main body of the text on my web page. In FireFox it's nice and transparent, and you can see the KC-135 and all the fighters around it. It looks cool. On Internet Explorer, the box where all the text is located goes pure white and blocks out the image. I tried using the "filter:alpha(opacity=60)" command, but that actually made the BODY image transparent instead of that white background. Looks like I need to keep working on that.

I do have sounds that DO load on IE, but not in FireFox. Although I consider that a minor thing though since they only appear on two pages. I know there is a easy fox for that, so it shouldn't be a problem.

Woot!

Okay, I managed to do it! I got it all working. Mostly by dumb luck. Well, okay, I have been learning a bit about the sort of styles this template uses, so it wasn't totally random trial and error.

Now it's time for me to finally get to writing things here. Just a fair warning, I can be sarcastic, snarky, and sometimes a bit condescending. But don't take me too seriously, it's not like I am out to hurt or offend you. That's YOUR reaction to what I write, not the reaction I am going after. I am just sharing my views and opinions with the world. Take them for what it's worth (i.e. probably not much).

If you want those surface things about me, just pop by my Facebook or MySpace pages. And feel free to add me as a friend.

Okay, now what?

Well, seems that I managed to get it to work! No small miracle since I didn't resort to asking my brother-in-law or even tech support for my host. I still need to figure out how to customize exactly what I want. I hate the bit where it is too wide for my little iFrame. See, just a little too wide.

I guess I'll keep messing with it until I get it right. Hopefully the template options give me some idea, or perhaps I can just go through trial and error. It seems to have worked for me in the past. Anyone willing to take bets on how long this will take?

Guess Not

Well, I guess Google isn't idiot proof! I am trying to get stuff posted to my page, but all I see is the old stuff I already put there yesterday, with no change to what I have added with this site. I suppose I am fortunate that my brother-in-law is a computer genius, and he's here to help me!

I also must say that I love FireFox's spell checking add-on! Wow, I can imagine trying to read this without that!

Is Google really that good?

Okay, so I am going to try to use Google's blog software to create my blog. The big question: Will it work?

I am always nervous when I try something new. Heck, it took me a DECADE to update my web page from simple HTML to something that actually looks like I put some effort into it. The reason I am always so hesitant is because I am totally self taught on HTML. HTML hadn't been invented by the time I went to university, so I really don't have that deep an understanding of all the things you can do with it. And invariably, there will be some small thing that will totally dork up everything I have done previously!

So, is Google good enough to handle my amateur attempts at making this blog software actually integrate with the way I wrote my web page? Did I enter all the information correctly to have it import? Will the format stay the same as I originally had it? Will my previous post stay? All serious questions for me to consider!

I suppose once I get all that answered, I will start in on serious blogging. By the way, I am open to inputs and suggestions on what to blog about as well as the rest of my web page.