I wonder if Bill ever considered maybe the reason why it seems like everybody is disrespectful to his wife is, one because the way she carried herself she doesn’t really deserve respect and two, just because her last name is Clinton doesn’t mean we just bow down to her. Besides Bill disrespected her first by cheating on her and still she stayed with him. She doesn’t even respect herself, how can she argue that she deserves our respect. In my eyes she is just another candidate that is loosing and she refuses to realize it. In Michigan they should either split the delegates down the middle or give Obama the votes that where uncommitted which was 40% and the other 4% that voted for someone else. She only got 55% of the vote and she was running against virtually nobody. That in itself should tell you something. It’s quite possible the primary could have turned out differently had Obama been an option. And for Florida Obama wasn’t well known. He was still considered a new comer but still managed to get 33% of the vote. They should just combine his votes and Edwards votes which was 14%, if Edwards will allow this and leave it at that. But in this instance too, the primary could have been very different if Obama had a chance to campaign and let everybody learn about him. I don’t see Hillary’s point in taking this to court when the DNC already said they were going to seat the delegates. She will just be laughed out of court. I would still vote for Hillary if she won legally, but if she wins illegally I will just go back onto the sidelines and watch this unfold. I will not vote for McCain as he is the harbinger of death and will bring destruction to us all… The day when McCain gave his speech and said he would never surrender Iraq gave me a cold shudder and was absolutely frightening. For the first time when I looked into his eyes I saw black orbs of death. I truly believe he would not end the war in 2013 and in fact is willing to go to hell taking this country kicking and screaming with him. I would vote for any democratic candidate just so I wouldn't have to face that possibility.

It is so tiring to listen to Hillary now. I still wonder why she is in the race after everybody else has moved on. Of course it is her right to stay in the race but what is she trying to achieve by doing so. She will not win the nomination legally. She’s was overly confident that she would win just because of the name recognition and all the money she had, but she still ran her campaign in an old school fashion. Obama’s campaign was genius in that he pulled together people in his campaign with new ideas and visions. I don’t know of any presidential candidate that managed the vast numbers of helpers and volunteers through the use of social networking. And taking small donation from millions of people instead of large donations through smaller numbers of people proved to work in his favor. Also the new faces that came out to vote, myself included, will make this year a year to remember.

It was wrong for her to bring up the assassination of Kennedy. What was her motive for doing so and how exactly did it relate in a positive way as to why she should stay? Listening to Bill was really annoying. He sounded like he was pouting because they are not getting their way. If I was near him I would pat him on the head and give him a cookie and say there there, don’t cry little one. But in reality I would have yelled at him and called him on his false accusations and to tell him Hillary did it to herself. Obama could have rubbed her nose in the mud with this Kennedy thing but instead he decided to let it pass. This isn’t the first time he let something that he could have capitalized on pass either. He did the same thing in one of the previous debates too. He also didn’t dwell on the Bosnia issue. Hillary on the other hand took every possible moment. She milked the reverend Write issue for weeks. And then to call him an elitist wasn’t sound at all.

Hillary also made the mistake on only focusing on a few big states instead of including the smaller states, which were just as important. This allowed Obama to take twice as many states and in so doing take the lead. He outplayed her on every front with only one theme where as on several occasions… to many to count, she has changed her message to either cater to the crowd she was appealing to or when she realized her message wasn’t working. I found it funny to hear during her speech in Puerto Rico the crowd chanted Obama’s slogan and she had to correct them. I also found it disturbing that she would pander to the crowd by telling them she wants to have another debate about Puerto Rico with Obama over them. How does this make since?? With only two more primaries left after Saturday. This brought back memories of the gas tax. In both instances she catered to the demographics. For the gas tax the people were poorer and any kind of relief would be welcomed. And in Puerto Rico the debate with Obama would show them that she was doing something. In both cases neither of those things would have happened and she knows it. But if it will help her get votes then that’s all that matters. And that goes along the lines of the MI and FL seating. I don’t see how she could have the popular vote when Obama’s name wasn’t on the ballet in MI and he didn’t campaign in FL except for one ad. In Florida the demographics favored Hillary so of course she would have won by big margins if he doesn’t campaign there. But can you honestly tell me that she would still get 100% of the votes in MI if Obama’s name was on the ballet and he campaigned and however many votes in FL if Obama did the same? I THINK NOT… Also Hillary only got 55% of the vote in Michigan with 44% uncommitted. That should tell you something right there.

In the end I don’t believe Hillary will be a stronger candidate. Yes she is a fighter and strives to get what she wants. But at the same time I see her trying so hard to get what she wants that she won’t let anything get in her way regardless of whether it was the right decision in the first play. She says she has 35 years of experience, but even with all the experience she has, she still made the wrong choice with the war, wrong choices with her campaign, wrong choice of words with foreign policies, namely Iran and wrong decisions with economic values, namely the gas tax. I also question how she will be able to manage the economy. Seeing how she is 20 plus million in debt and had to “loan” herself money, this is a big concern when it comes to managing the economy. I don’t believe it will be in Obama’s best interest to have her as Vice President. Hillary and Bill duo will be hard to work with and I can see as re election draws near she will try to make it difficult for him to run again. Hillary’s baggage would bring Obama down if he was to take her on as VP. And the notion that he owes her the VP spot is absurd. They were both competing for the same position and she lost. He owes her nothing, the VP spot or helping with getting rid of her debt. Other candidates were smart enough to withdraw from the race when they neared going into debt. She also had this choice and she decided not to. Of course she has every right to stay in the race but at the same time she should expect to deal with the consequences just like everybody else. Obama should continue to focus on McCain and give Hillary her space to do whatever. Even though McCain is doing a fine job running his campaign into the ground, there is always room for Obama to lend a helping hand.

So school is coming to an end and I have to say it was a pretty interesting class. I didn’t realize how powerful Flash could be but I see there are so many possibilities. It’s to bad there isn’t another more advanced class then the current advanced class I’m taking now because while doing the final project I ran into a lot of different classes that is really useful. So now I’m seeing if I can get into a different department at my company, VMware, that will let me work more with Flash, as well as Java, PHP, exc. My current position gives me limited exposure to scripting for the web, but not enough to help me advance. I’m thinking about adding a links page onto my website and there I will put a link to my final project. But honestly this site could be its own site if I wanted to take the time and buy another domain. I’ll just have to see. So now I’m thinking to add Flash to my main site while at the same time redesigning the site because it looked the same for 5 or 7 years. I think it’s about time for a change. And I still need to put something together for my eyenetdesigns.com website. That’s suppose to be my landing page for side jobs. But I’ve really done nothing with it except use it as a test site. It would be cool to design something totally in Flash but then I would have to give up Xoops as the content management system unless I want to do some serious hardcore programming. I don’t have that kind of time. But I’m thinking one cool thing I want to create is another version of the xsgal that I’ve been working on. This gallery was originally created by someone in Iran and even though I completely rewrote the module to help him I still can’t really call it mine and there’s a few enhancements I would like to add to the module which I can’t because I’m waiting for him to finish adding the latest lightbox feature. Besides I’ve been wanting to create a flash Image gallery for Xoops for a while so I think it will be fun. Once that’s finished I’m thinking about creating an mp3 jukebox module for xoops that would allow users to create their own playlists and stream music from that site. That would be a pretty cool thing to have.

I’ve been following the presidential candidates a lot and I have to say it is both interesting and annoying. I voted democratic, Obama, and would have accepted either Obama or Hillary as the nominee, but over the course of time Hillary has become to disturbing for me to want to support her and I would never support Mccain. So what is a person to do?? It’s annoying that the media can’t get off the subject of the pasture and now they are talking about his new pasture. Yes he said some offensive things, but whats really upsetting is the video’s that air don’t show the whole speech so you don’t get a better understanding… Like the chickens coming how to roost. (I think is was the saying). You would never have known he was actually quoting another person unless you listened to the whole thing. And not putting his hand over his heart during the pledge??? That probably would raise concern if it wasn’t for the fact that that picture wasn’t taken during the pledge, it was taken during the singing of the national anthem where you are not required to put your hand over your heart. And the issue with not wearing a flag pin is just childish. I don’t want to be bothered with these childish things. I am more interested in knowing what the candidates are going to do for me? I want Hillary to spell out her plan for getting out of Iraq and her plan for health care as well as Obama’s plan and even Mccain’s. But one thing I will not forgive Hillary for is for authorizing the war without reading the briefing. How do you just do something like that and expect people to just be okay with it. I also want her to be more forthcoming with her taxes… A LOT more then she did with her travel records and meetings. That’s complete BS to release those documents then comment out names and places that could raise questions about her. And this issue about releasing the tax records after the tax season, pretty much when the majority of the states would have already voted is pretty devious. Why would I want someone that is soooo secretive about these things to be my president? That’s probably why she has not accepted the offer to interview on CNN or NPR. She most likely doesn’t want to be faced with questions she doesn’t want to answer. And Mccain is another story… he has a temper and will most likely get us all killed. I really don’t want him answering that red phone… AT ALL!!! On there separate occasions he’s made a mistake about Iran training al kaida ( yes I know it’s spelled wrong… I don’t care). How difficult is it to get the facts right, especially if you’ve been corrected three times???? But enough venting…..

So my parents will be coming down in a couple of weeks and I will most likely take some time off. It will be nice to get away from here anyway. My new boss is a serious micromanager and it’s pissing off the whole team. Most of us are just bidding out time before we can move to a different department. I don’t know what the hell his problem is but he took a totally fun environment and turned it into a place where you have to watch your back. I stopped caring about my numbers or being the top person to resolve tickets a long time ago. Being one of the top people that still resolve the most tickets is pure luck, because half the time I’m doing my own thing. Now I just come in and do my work and then go home. But in any case I still need to stick around long enough to vest all of my stock options. Then I’ll most likely be ready to move to Southern Cali and buy a condo or something. But that for sure won’t happen until after we finish paying off the house we are buying in the Philippines. This house is pretty sweet. It’s in town and 15 minutes walk to the beach. It will pretty much be our vacation home.

Kaia is also doing well. She a pretty smart baby… so smart it gets annoying sometimes. But of course I still love her. I just can’t wait for her to talk so she can finally tell me what she wants. I still put pictures on my wife’s website, www.maesworld.com, and just started putting up video so her family in the PI can see and also my family in Southern Cali. She’s a funny little girl that’s curious about everything. A couple times I caught her staring at me while she was crying then turn her head away when I look at her. We started collecting Disney movies and Pixar animations for her so she can watch. Even though she’s a little over 3 months old she seems to enjoy colorful things a lot.

Well that’s all for now….

The end of the year is coming to a close. I think this was a pretty good year for me. Learned a lot of new things, got to meet interesting people and had a new baby. Kaia is doing fine. She is so active and looks like she will be a pretty smart baby. She doesn't cry a lot, only when she wants something, so I guess we lucked out. I took a 2 and 1/2 week vacation to spend time with her and Mae. I have to say it's been a pretty nice vacation. I still have another week to go so I haven't left my chill mode. Picture of Kaia can be found at www.maesworld.com. I thought that would be the best place for us the place the pictures because her family visits there the most. My parents also came down for her birth. Dad stayed with me during the waiting period but he left as so as she started giving birth. I guess he couldn't handle watching the birthing process. They stayed for about a week so we got to hang out. I could really tell dad was happy to see the baby. Even Glady's my stepmother was happy. I'm sure she was even more happy it wasn't her giving birth. They plan to come back up in a few months to check in on us. My brother says he will be coming down next month to see us.

School ended pretty well. I got an A for both my PHP and Flash programming classes. I did learn a few things in PHP that I didn't already know. I'm sure I would have learned a lot more if I had read the book and instruction materials. But my main focus was on Flash. I really enjoyed my Flash class. The teacher said my final was pretty impressive (Final Project) and he didn't expect to see something like that come out of a beginning student. I assured him I had no prior knowledge of Flash before taking that class. It was just a matter of applying the things he taught and reading through tutorials on the net. He says he wants to use the project as an example to future students. That's pretty cool. Though there are a couple of things on the project that I would like to fix. But I will be able to do that the more I learn ActionScript. I'm really looking forward to taking the class so I will be able to do more things. I decided to take the little knowledge that I new and add Flash to Mae's site. I really just wanted to see if I could integrate it into a Xoops theme along with calling out function in PHP and it looks like I was pretty successful. Now I'm thinking about doing the same thing with my website but I have to think of something that would be really cool. Well one of these days I'll get started.

So other then that life is pretty much the same. I'm still playing World of Warcraft. Got my Mage up to 70 and also got all the Epic PvP gear I'm going to get for now for my Shaman. I don't play as much as before since Kaia is here but I still try to enjoy my game time.

Well that's all for now!!

This week went by pretty quick.... thank God. I had to come into work at 6:30am this week and I have to say it was hell. I don't know how Theo does it. The only upside is the fact I get off at 3:30 instead of 5pm so I can't complain to much.

I finished my Midterms last week and this week. So now school is more then half way over. The Flash class has been pretty fun. I'm actually learning a lot and so far my teacher has been impressed with some of the projects I've turned in. I can't wait till it's finished though. The PHP class has been more tedious then fun. I managed to get a 46 out of 50 without picking up the book. And luckily my latest project just involved me fixing the teachers programs and writing regular expressions. So now I have the whole weekend to do nothing but sleep (like that's going to happen). Eventually I will start on this MP3 jukebox I've been wanting to make as a module for Xoops. Of all the one's I've seen so far, none of them are good enough to use in any serious way even though the player is Flash. Most of the problem stems from the Flash player not really being integrated into the Xoops module it is suppose to work with. I found one Flash player where the person expected the user to create an XML file and load that and yet another player that just played one song. That's only half ass work but I can also understand that maybe the creator doesn't know how to integrate Flash with PHP. Well once I create the module, they will have a blueprint to work off of. I also spent some time this week working on the x_movie and cdbase modules to fix some problems people had. One person asked if I can add support for this site www.veoh.com. I took a look at it and the videos are pretty nice. I will probably add that feature before incorporating a French language pack a few people want me to add. Apparently my version of x_movies is the only one that works correctly.


I'm still playing WoW. Mostly doing PvP. Somehow after the last patch my graphics card slows down to like 15fps when there's 20 or 30 other players moving around at the same time... I need to do a performance test now. Although all the settings my be cranked to high. Should check that too. In any case I updated the drivers last night so hopefully that will help.

Well Xmas is around the corner and I'm ready for a break. Mae Ann is looking forward to next week when she can stop working. That doesn't make her Employers to happy. They don't want her to go. The pamper that girl so much it's funny. Not only does she have a set 8 to 4 M - F schedule that nobody else has but she works in one department and has a chair to sit on. I'm sure she has a lot of envious people. They also gave her a baby shower last week. The pictures will be on her website, www.maesworld.com. The baby is moving a lot still. Mae said she saw the baby foot move across her stomach and it scared her. I didn't see it but it probably would have disturbed me too. But I know she's looking forward to getting little Kaia out of her.

So work is pretty slow today. It gave me a chance to make some changes to this site I'm working on for my friends uncle's band. Man the changes he's asking for is being him closer and closer to having a static website where each page will have to be updated manually, and I will charge him a lot!! As it is now, pretty much everything is generated dynamically. But his other band members liked his previous site that basically looked like a picture... and that's it. Basically what you see is what you get. If he insists on going back down that road, I'll just let him dig his own grave. But for now the site is looking pretty nice.

Well that's all for today.

It’s been so long since I’ve written anything… mostly busyness, mostly laziness. But also I’ve been updating my website with my blog from my old site trying to put it into this new blog system. I’ve come to realize it’s taking forever… So where should I start. I’m still married. I can’t believe it’s already a year 2 weeks ago. Damn time flies so fast. And now I’m about to have a baby girl. This Christmas will a pretty nice Christmas since she will be born around the 24th of December. We decided to name her Kaia… was a month battle to get that name. I wanted Kaiya but Mae thought it was too Japanese. Never mind the fact it could have been Hawaiian or Native American Indian. But I still like Kaia and it’s even more unique. She decided Shanti will be her middle name. The doctor says the baby is strong. I would think so; she always seems to be beating the hell out of Mae Ann from the inside. And she is constantly moving. I already know I want her to play the Violin when she is older, so I can sit and listen. There’s even a Violin in the closet waiting. Okay yes I like the Violin… use to play it in Junior High and High School.

Dad drove up last month and dropped off a nice stroller that turns into a carrier and fits in a car seat. Since Mae is working at Target she finding all kinds of discounts… sometimes more then I’d like to hear about. Luckily she doesn’t just go on a shopping spree and let me find out later.

I’m still playing World of Warcraft. Somehow I still find my way back there. My Shaman, Katsumi, is up to 66 and should be 67 before then of the weekend. My Mage, Kaiyo, is 67 and I’ll finish leveling her up once I reach 70 on my Shaman. Hopefully soon I’ll get enough video footage to create a video of my Shaman. For some reason though it’s harder to run into fights with her because nobody seems to mess with me. I have to go into Battle Grounds where they don’t have a choice. But I’m trying to make a World PvP video. There are not many Shaman music videos out there so I figure I should put in my contribution. But regardless I need to get both these characters to 70 before the baby is born because I won’t have much time after that.

I’m also back in school again… will it never end…. Taking PHP and Flash this time. Yes I know... why am I taking PHP if I already know it???? Well I want a solid foundation and some structure. I’m taking Flash, one because I’ve always wanted to take it, but also because I just realized I could integrate Flash with PHP and MySQL and do some crazy shit!! The possibilities are endless…… I’ve also been doing a lot with Xoops. It is basically a web content management system similar to phpnuke. Right now I’m working on 4 sites for one of my friend’s uncles. I have a friend doing the artwork so I can concentrate on the backend programming and the creation of the website. I have to say it’s looking pretty sweet. It has a Hawaiian style theme to it. I’m only charging him about $500 a site, which I realize is crazy talk but I need to build up my portfolio and it’s still 2 grand and the work is not that difficult. I’m still deciding if I’m going to charge him extra so that he can upload mp3’s and then have them play in a Flash player. That will be pretty sweet but this wont be simple Flash player… It will basically be integrated into Xoops and will call PHP to connect to the database and grab the location of the MP3 so that it can be loaded and played. It took forever to try and figure out the ActionScript for that… that’s another reason I decided to take this Flash class. But this is just the start. Eventually I will create a full blown music jukebox that will allow each user registered with a site to create their own playlist and listen to the music from the site. Unfortunately in order to protect the MP3’s from being downloaded the owners of the site will need to have the MP3’s on another site. Of course the users of the site won’t have any idea where the MP3’s are coming from because only the database will have that info.

Well I guess that's all for now....

Today I took the time to just chill and do nothing. Well I can't say entirely nothing. I did reinstall my Linux server to the latest Distro and try to figure out why the hell this capturing device it not capturing the way it's suppose to and I even worked on my Web Site so I could get the menus looking the way I wanted them to look. Plus I went down to the court house to resubmit the papers so the Judge can sign them. I guess I did a little more then just chill.

I tried creating some menus today using a plug-in from Macromedia's web site. Some JavaScript techie created it and I thought I would just take the easy way out and use his program to make my menus. Man I couldn't get it to work the way I wanted it to. And the method that my dreamweaver lesson taught me was just to simple. So I had to break out my fireworks book... I bought this book a couple months ago but never looked at. Fireworks is OFF THE HOOK. I was able to create the menus I've been wanting in no time at all. And it looks a lot more professional. I think I might just have to learn a thing or two about Fireworks MX....

I had an interview at Sony today... It was hella cool. Those people really liked me a lot. They even had me sit next to one of the workers and listen to him take calls. When I was waiting in the reception area, I just wanted to bust out laughing.. The receptionist was playing some game on his computer. That was just too cool. I really really hope I get this job. Well they did call me later and told me I was hired. But now I have to wait for them to complete the background check. Man I hope it will be okay. I will be hella bummed if I couldn't work because of something I did 2 1/2 years ago.

My first night of class was Advanced Unix. My teacher was pretty funny. An Indian lady that new what she was talking about. I think I'm going to have fun in this class. I also think it will be pretty easy.

I learned about Dynamic HTML today. After going through this lesson, I understand now that all those scripts I've been seeing on the Net was probably made by Dreamweaver. I also learned how to create menus for my pages. You can bet there going to be some updates going on.. hehehe

Today I finally got my Ayumi Hamasaki CD... It came all the way from China. This CD is pretty sweet. But one problem... when I get to the 9th song, it starts messing up. I looked at the CD and it looks like there is a flaw on the disk, but as an MP3 it came out just fine. But that still really really sucks. I will need to send the girl an email and ask her if I can change it. I was pretty disappointed this happened. Ayumi is a really good singer. Is it possible I like her more then Utada????? Hmmm decisions decisions.

Today I discovered Cascading Style Sheets or CSS for short. Man this saves hella time creating web pages. I started the process of converting my Journal pages to CSS style pages. Then all I have to do is type and the formatting is done for me.

I lost my voice today. I don't know how or even where it went. But I cannot talk. I stayed in my room most of the day just cleaning and listening to music since I couldn't say a damned thing!! But it was cool. I started my Self Paced Dreamweaver class. I will try and finish at least half the class before school starts.... MONDAY!!! Damn the break was pretty quick. And my books still haven't arrived in the mail. It's going to be pretty interesting the first day of class.

And a new Japanese show started tonight. Man that other show I was watching went off. I really wanted to see what happened at the end. =0(