My last post on Blogger

This will be my last post here on Blogger. It has been a great few weeks, but we can all thank Nick for the confusion, as he desingned a header for me (can't use it over here, thus the move). Please come visit me at my new site: thepeon.wordpress.com.

I've been Taged!!!

So, I have been tagged by Nick and have been charged with telling you 8 tings about myself. So, here it goes:

1. I have the smallest Italian family in history. My family consists of my parents, my brother, and two sets of aunts and uncles (one on my dad's side and one on my mother's).

2. I enjoy driving and can't stand being a passenger. I assume this goes back to my basic need to be in control of situations.

3. I have been playing drums since I was in fourth grade. I have met some of my best friends through both drums and bands. (Nick was a friend of another drummer when I met him)

4. I love the outdoors, although I don't get out there enough. At one time, when I was in high school, I wanted to become a white water rafting guide.

5. I used to live in Las Vegas and became pretty good at poker. One of my last weeks that I lived out there, I sat down at a table with $100 and walked away 3 hours later with $410. It's too bad I can't always make $100 an hour.

6. I only had 3 girl friends before I met my wife.

7. I have received two speeding tickets for going in excess of 90 miles per hour.

8. My dad has come to me asking for computer help even though he works in the computer industry and has since the Vietnam War.

So, there it is, 8 things you all know about me that you didn't before. I now have to tag someone else. Unfortunately, I don't know many other bloggers, yet, so I only have my wife to tag. If anyone else wants to be tagged, feel free to tag your self in the comments.

My start in HTML

So I started my step into html today. I found a web site that is walking me through it. It seems to be really easy, as long as you can keep track of the different commands. I figured learning html would be a good starting place. I would eventually like to learn css, but didn't want to jump off the deep end. CSS looks quite a bit more difficult that html. My bet is that CSS will be out dated by the time I get around to learning it, but oh well.

Scooter gets out of Prison

I love our country and our government, but one part of it that I can not stand is presidential pardons and commutes. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's prison sentence was commuted (is that the right word form?) by President Bush on Monday. What this shows me is that providing you are lying to protect the president's or vice-president's illegal doings, you are free to lie to the people of your country. There have been many doings of our president that I have disagreed with, but this I think ranks number two (domestic warrant-less wire tapping tops the list). Our president's actions trumped the justice system. Scooter was found guilty, and will not go to prison. Just for clarification for everyone, a commute differs from a pardon by not clearing the person's record, but just getting them out of the jail time. Libby's actions put a CIA operative and any one "employed" buy the front company she used at risk, and disrupted any missions those people were currently involved in. At least none of those operatives had to pay the ultimate sacrifice for Libby's political agenda.

Opera Mini Update

So I have been using Opera Mini for about two weeks now. I have few complaints about it. The only major complaint, which may be with my cell provider and not Opera, is that they have 9 different network setups. When the user prompts it to, Opera Mini does an auto optimization test, but I'm not quite sure what that does. For whatever reason, when I'm at work, I have to run this test up to 4 times a day. This will happen when I move from the south end of the building to the north end. I have a feeling that I am between two towers, but I don't know why I have to keep running this test. If I don't, the browser will be extremely slow, and sometimes won't load pages at all, but as soon as I run the test, I'm off and running like normal. But hey, a minor inconvenience for a great piece of FREE software.