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Ideas for Mothers Day May 12, 2003

 

Nicole Smith is in the Sacramento Ballet's Nutcracker This Holiday Season!

Share the Magic of “The Nutcracker”

Share the Magic of Sacramento’s most cherished holiday favorite… THE NUTCRACKER at our home theater, the Sacramento Community Center Theater. This magical fairytale delights again and again. Come and enjoy the most enchanting of all ballet classics. Music by Peter Illyich Tchaikovsky, choreography by Ron Cunningham. Celebrate the festive season with the Sacramento Ballet’s 35^th production of THE NUTCRACKER. Make this an annual family tradition.

Nicole's Schedule... click here!

Torg, as promised!

As promised I bought your book and I am posting a link to it here to encourage all to pick your book up for a little pleasure read. It was great seeing you again! Here it is:

Historical Role Analysis in the Study of Religious Change : Mass Educational Development in Norway, 1740-1891
by John T. Flint (Torg)

Monsanto Hid Decades Of Pollution!

PCBs Drenched Ala. Town, But No One Was Ever Told by Michael Grunwald

ANNISTON, Ala. -- On the west side of Anniston, the poor side of Anniston, the people ate dirt. They called it "Alabama clay" and cooked it for extra flavor. They also grew berries in their gardens, raised hogs in their back yards, caught bass in the murky streams where their children swam and played and were baptized. They didn't know their dirt and yards and bass and kids -- along with the acrid air they breathed -- were all contaminated with chemicals. They didn't know they lived in one of the most polluted patches of America. SEE MORE....

T3 Rise of the Machines Comes Out on July 2, 2003!

Check out the trailer: (small, medium, large). Click on images below for larger versions.

  

Updated technology pages!

Alas there is still much work to be done. However, by all means, please check them out including a new article near the bottom of the page about a female lizard that wins the battle of the sexes! Check out http://www.bahzone.net/mirror/index.html.

Tracked the Man Down!!

I decided to finally track down my college buddy Adam Duritz. (An inspirational person for me when it really counted in my life.) I decided his website fan mail might get me through the super-star barrier. What a cool dude - he reads all of his fan mail on his message board and he found my message. Very Cool, thanks Adam!

Our Eight/Nine/Ten Year Old Daughter is in Sacramento Ballet's Nutcracker!! (again)

Our Nicole is performing in this years Nutcracker ballet presented by Sacramento Ballet.  We are so, so proud of her and very excited about her involvement.  For more information about the performance, please contact sweetiebabies@ipwarp.net.

On Contract at Hanson McClain Retirement Network

I'm very happy to say I'm working with a friend from my DISC / Synergex days. I'm doing IT work and laying down a technological infrastructure. I am still available for another contract as this is part time and very flexible. I must say, though, I am enjoying working at HMRN very much. The people have been very kind and they have a sense of humor. OMG that is important these days! Thanks Adam, Gary, Robert, Sue, and Tracy.

Technology Links

Premium research articles at IDC!   Check there first (I do).

IMPORTANT Nutrasweet Article

I cannot guarantee the authenticity of these articles, but I know I'm convinced.

  Great Technical Support Skit

Play It (Video)

  Brent Available for Contract!

I'm available for a new contract placement or permanent job in Sacramento. I am looking for positions in network security, network forensics, network architecture, software development, IT, ISP, and programmer/analyst positions. My updated resume is here. Please call me for more information. Thanks, Brent

Very Funny - Read This...

Women's quote of the day

"Men are like fine wine.  They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something with which you'd like to have dinner with."

Men's counter quote of the day

"Women are like fine wine.  They all start out fresh, fruity and intoxicating to the mind and then turn full-bodied with age until they go all sour and vinegary and give you a headache."

Ideas for Mothers Day   

OK, Mother's Day is Over - but These are Nice Gifts Anyway

 

Election Perspective (outdated)

As the unfolding drama of the election continues to stun and astound, I thought you might find this an interesting, if rather disturbing viewpoint. This is from an article in which a Zimbabwe politician was quoted as saying that children should study this event closely for it shows that election fraud is not only a third world phenomena.... 1. Imagine that we read of an election occurring anywhere in the third world in which the self-declared winner was the son of the former prime minister and that former prime minister was himself the former head of that nation's secret police (CIA). 2. Imagine that the self-declared winner lost the popular vote but won based on some old colonial holdover (electoral college) from the nation's pre-democracy past. 3. Imagine that the self-declared winner's 'victory' turned on disputed votes cast in a province governed by his brother! 4. Imagine that the poorly drafted ballots of one district, a district heavily favoring the self-declared winner's opponent, led thousands of voters to vote for the wrong candidate. 5. Imagine that members of that nation's most despised caste, fearing for their lives/livelihoods, turned out in record numbers to vote in near-universal opposition to the self-declared winner's candidacy. 6. Imagine that hundreds of members of that most-despised caste were intercepted on their way to the polls by state police operating under the authority of the self-declared winner's brother. 7. Imagine that six million people voted in the disputed province and that the self-declared winner's 'lead' was only 327 votes. Fewer, certainly, than the vote counting machines' margin of error. 8. Imagine that the self-declared winner and his political party opposed a more careful by-hand inspection and re-counting of the ballots in the disputed province or in its most hotly disputed district. 9. Imagine that the self-declared winner, himself a governor of a major province, had the worst human rights record of any province in his nation and actually led the nation in executions. 10. Imagine that a major campaign promise of the self-declared winner was to appoint like-minded human rights violators to lifetime positions on the high court of that nation. None of us would deem such an election to be representative of anything other than the self-declared winner's will-to-power. All of us, I imagine, would wearily turn the page thinking that it was another sad tale of pitiful pre- or anti-democracy peoples in some strange elsewhere." ~~~~~~~ David Wellman Research Sociologist Institute for the Study of Social Change University of California, Berkeley; Professor of Community Studies College Eight University of California, Santa Cruz

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State Kills Project to Link Welfare Networks

Here's a great article from the Los Angeles Times that explains my old job at Logicon Advanced Technology!  Throughout the article there are references to consultants that provide project oversight and "auditing" of IT projects.  I am contracted out by Logicon to perform those duties for IT projects in many different State agencies including: Department of Corrections, Department of Justice, Deportment of Social Services, Department of Toxic Substances Control, etc.

Check out this article, it is very well written and explains a lot.

Although I did not work on the CMIS project, it is referenced in the article as the only project that recovered it's losses from the vender.   The reason The State of California was able to do that was because Logicon was contracted to perform Independent Verification and Validation for CMIS.  Logicon documented the problems in the project early on and provided crucial documented project assessments that the State was able to use to sue the contractor (TRW).

ID 99 Conference in San Diego

The SANS Intrusion Detection and Response Conference is being held in my home town, San Diego, the week of February 9 through February 13.  Click here for real time conference notes...

Sacramento Bee Reports on Synergex Gas

See the article from the December 11th issue of the Sacramento Bee, "Synergex steps on the gas with a plan for growth: Branching out by acquisition"

Looking for a New Job in Sacramento? 

Try This Salary Calculator: http://www.sacbee.com/ib/tools/salary.html

Network Problems on a Windows 98 network?

This is a pretty good KB article from Microsoft about network problems with Microsoft Windows 98.  Take a peek....

A Great Story to Start Your Day!

Once Upon A Time I was Senior Systems Analyst at Logicon RDA!

Late 1998 I left Synergex to move onto greater things...  I took a break from project management, and working as an independent Verification and Validation Consultant for Logicon. I was performing project and technical oversight on the LEADS and CPIN projects with the California Department of Corrections .  I started Wednesday, February 18, 1999!!

More information about LEADS:

PAROLE LEADS THE WAY WITH NEW AUTOMATED SYSTEM

AB 1275 Parole: Law Enforcement Automated Data System (as of 10/6/97)

Robert Stinson, User Project Administrator of the California Department of Corrections’ (CDC) Parole Automation System

This is from a limerick contest in Oxnard, California.

One of the requirements was to use the words Lewinsky and Kaczynski (the Unabomber) in a limerick. Here are the 3 winners:

Entry #1:
There once was a gal named Lewinsky
Who played on a flute like Stravinsky
'Twas "Hail to the Chief"
On this flute made of beef
That stole the front page from Kaczynski.

Entry #2:
Said Bill Clinton to young Ms. Lewinsky
We don't want to leave clues like Kaczynski,
Since you look such a mess,
Use the hem of your dress
And wipe that stuff off of your chinsky.

Entry #3:
Lewinsky and Clinton have shown
What Kaczynski must surely have known:
That an intern is better
Than a bomb in a letter
Given the choice of how to be blown.

More about the Bahzone

Book Recommendations

Security

The CERT(R) Guide to System and Network Security Practices (The SEI Series in Software Engineering) by Julia H. Allen
Paperback - 447 pages 1 edition (June 7, 2001) Addison-Wesley Pub Co  ISBN: 020173723X  Dimensions (in inches): 0.93 x 9.23 x 7.36 Amazon.com Sales Rank: 945

Training

OO Methodologies and Languages

Case Method : Entity Relationship Modelling (Computer Aided Systems Engineering) by Richard Barker
Hardcover (January 1990) Addison-Wesley Pub Co. ISBN: 0201416964 Dimensions (in inches): 0.86 x 9.54 x 7.48 Amazon.com Sales Rank: 84,839

Object Orientation: Concepts, Analysis & Design, Languages, Databases, Graphical User Interfaces, Standards, 2nd Edition by Setrag Khoshafian, Razmik Abnous (Contributor)
CD-ROM - 1239 pages 1st edition (June 15, 2000) Sams ISBN: 0672317559 Dimensions (in inches): 2.62 x 9.14 x 7.34 Amazon.com Sales Rank: 32,225

Unix System Administration

Red Hat Linux System Administration Unleashed (with CD-ROM) by Thomas Schenk, Derek Murphy, Ido Dubrawski, Robert Haig, Aaron Crane, Neil Brown, Derek Barber, Elliot Turner, Jay Fink, Jaron Rubenstein, Tom Addelstein, Gene Wilburn, Ivan McDonaugh, Raphael Mankin
Paperback - 327 pages 6th edition (November 1998) O'Reilly & Associates ISBN: 1565924266 Dimensions (in inches): 0.77 x 9.19 x 7.02 Amazon.com Sales Rank: 1,459

Linux System Administration Black Book by Dee-Ann LeBlanc
Paperback - 700 pages Cd-Rom edition (August 19, 2000) The Coriolis Group ISBN: 1576104192 Amazon.com Sales Rank: 70,931

Learning the VI Editor by Linda Lamb, Arnold Robbins
Paperback - 327 pages 6th edition (November 1998) O'Reilly & Associates ISBN: 1565924266 Dimensions (in inches): 0.77 x 9.19 x 7.02 Amazon.com Sales Rank: 1,459

vi Editor Pocket Reference (O'Reilly Nutshell) by Arnold Robbins, Gigi Estabrook (Editor)
Paperback - 72 pages 1 edition (January 1999) O'Reilly & Associates ISBN: 1565924975 Dimensions (in inches): 0.21 x 6.93 x 4.19 Amazon.com Sales Rank: 5,180

Running Linux by Matt Welsh, Matthias Kalle Dalheimer, Lar Kaufman, Matthew Welsh
Paperback - 730 pages 3rd edition (August 1999) O'Reilly & Associates ISBN: 156592469X Dimensions (in inches): 1.34 x 9.20 x 7.04 Amazon.com Sales Rank: 3,136

Dns and Bind by Cricket Liu, Paul Albitz, Mike Loukides
Paperback - 482 pages 3rd edition (September 1998) O'Reilly & Associates ISBN: 1565925122 Dimensions (in inches): 1.06 x 9.20 x 7.08 Amazon.com Sales Rank: 359

Sendmail (Nutshell Handbook) by Bryan Costales, Eric Allman, Gigi Estabrook (Editor)
Paperback - 1050 pages 2nd edition (January 1997) O'Reilly & Associates ISBN: 1565922220 Dimensions (in inches): 2.02 x 9.22 x 7.07 Amazon.com Sales Rank: 3,101

Sendmail Desktop Reference by Bryan Costales, Eric Allman, Gigi Estabrook (Editor)
Paperback - 74 pages (May 1997) O'Reilly & Associates ISBN: 1565922786 Dimensions (in inches): 0.21 x 6.98 x 4.23 Amazon.com Sales Rank: 2,228

AS/400 Security

As/400 Security in a Client/Server Environment by Joseph S. Park
Paperback - 290 pages Bk&Disk edition (July 1995) John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 0471116831 Dimensions (in inches): 1.05 x 9.21 x 7.47 Amazon.com Sales Rank: 177,892

IMPORTANT STUFF

With or Without You

See the stone set in your eyes
See the thorn twist in your side
I will wait for you
Slight of hand and twist of fate
On a bed of nails she makes me wait
And I wait....without you

With or without you
With or without you

Through the storm we reach the shore
You give it all but I want more
And I'm waiting for you

With or without you
With or without you
I can't live with or without you

And you give yourself away
And you give yourself away
And you give
And you give
And you give yourself away

My hands are tied
My body's bruised
She's got me with nothing to win
And nothing left to lose

With or without you
With or without you
I can't live with or without you

--U2

My PGP Public Key (OLD)

My PGP public key is available for download in asc format as well as in text format for cut and paste.   For more information on PGP encryption for email and files, visit the PGP Home Page.