Happy Birthday C64

For the record, I have never had a Commodore 64, but I can't deny the impact this pc had on the teche generation. I grew up in a Radio Shack environment so I always had a TRS-80 computer in one version or another for most of my childhood. From a Color Computer to a Model 3/4 to some of the first PC based laptops Tandy put out.

I took several computer classes while in school learning basic programing well before I finished high school. In fact, I wrote a mailing label program for my parents business in basic. For the most part that program was easy except for the what seemed like a million read/data lines of code to get the UPS zones correct for the shipping to places we didn't ship to a lot.

Having those computers in front of me since I was about 8 years old for sure made a big impact in my career despite the fact I tried to run away from it while in college. I started college wanting to be a pharmacist and ended up with a journalism degree. After working for the paper in Richmond, I seen how computers were my future. I just couldn't stay away and was always drawn to supporting them.

So, Happy Birthday Commodore 64.

dj

Happy Birthday boys

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The twins are now three. Well almost. Monday is their birthday but we have been celebrating all weekend. Chuck E. Cheese last night and a family birthday tonight. Their uncle will be over on Sunday and Monday is Build a Bear workshop night. They have been waiting to go there since summer. The biggest highlight of the night is when they opened their guitars and Gabe finally getting bubblegum. We told them they couldn't have any until they turned three. So everyone of course got them bubble gum and my parents got them a bubble gum bank.

Having twins over the last three years has been a challenge but it's been worth it. The boys are so different it's not even funny. They each have their own personally and we love them for it. When we found out we were having twins, we didn't know what to think but we made it so far. There were nights that first year that we didn't know how were going to make it. Gabe especially we so difficult at nights. He grew so much and ate so much that it must have been painful for him at times. We kept them on the same feeding schedule and sometimes at night we hated waking him up to eat. We got plenty of late night television. You know, those record sets for music that no body wants and tv shows that you had forgotten you had watched when you were a kid.

Anyway, now it's time for Christmas. I guess I will start on the outside lights this week and maybe even put the tree up tomorrow. We will see.

dj

Good night

Good night tonight. The boys got to stay up a bit late and watch Shriek the Halls and The Grinch. Tonight was probably the first night where they sit up and watched some of the Christmas shows. It was fun to just sit and watch them as they watched every bit. Well, except for Zach falling asleep on the recliner :)
Anyway, this should be a good Christmas for us. Can't wait.

dj

Happy Thanksgiving

Just wanted to say Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. Don't eat to much turkey :)

Dj

Testing photo to blog

Seeing if I can send photo to blog by email from my blackberry

Post by email

Testing to sewe if I can post by email from my Blackberry. Hope this works.

dj

House cleaning :)

Ok Ok Ok. Time to clean out the cobwebs and crickets again. I have got to get back into the grove. But so much going on. :) Anyway, more coming later :)

dj

Saturday night or Sunday morning brain dump

Ok. No time for a long post so here goes a couple of quick thoughts.

1. My Colonels may be on to something this year. Hope so anyway. Looked good today and the mess ups went our way.

2. Getting ready to bring a new mail server online this week at work. We went with Zimbra which was just purchased by Yahoo. Looks promissing. Has what we are looking for and we are going to run it on a VMServer box.

3. My buddy Liam and his wife got word this week that their adoption may have hit a huge snag. So drop a quick prayer for them.

4. Going to take the boys to one of the local pumpkin patches after church. They could be making several trips this fall.

dj

Life group and answered prayers

Just wanted to pass this along. Just another good reason to be in a life group. Over the last year or so, my life group has a couple of major prayers answered. Two new jobs, one guy going to be a dad via adoption after finding out they couldn't any other way, good medical test results and one guy adjusting to his new life after a divorce. Just another way of seeing God's amazing power and love for us :)

dj

VMServer and email

Ok, in looking over some spare equipment and hardware at work, I have put together a pretty good server box that I am have put VMServer on and now want to look at moving part of our email over to. Most of the people who get email only get a basic email account while a select few get an Exchange account. For those who get basic email, we are using iMail but we may consider moving them over to something else.

Anybody have any ideas on a good open source email package that runs good on vmserver? The server has a Pent. 4 3ghz processer with a 1.25 GB of memory which we wil upgrade later. It has a 300GB SATA drive pluse we can add more later so we are in pretty good shape hardware wise. Now we just need to look for a good email package.

dj