Ok. Yes, I am still around and about. Since my last post here I’ve been quite quiet, assessing myself and my environment, spending quality time with my family and pretty much concentrating on schooling(actually I just came out of hibernation).
Check back frequently for some new updates and possibly a new website design. Thanks!
So, we all love free stuff. For the next addition to the Freebies located here, instead of brainstorming for what I should offer up to everyone, why don’t you all give me some suggestions!
Here’s how it will work.
Follow me at Twitter (http://twitter.com/Circuitbomb)
shoot a reply @Circuitbomb with your idea, or something you would like to see
I will give one random person US $5.00 via Paypal.
I’m not an expert on American politics, nor am I an expert in the financial industry.
What I do know, by what I feel in my heart, is that the massive banking institutions around the globe have an iron grip around the throat of America, along with a nimble thieving hand in our pocket.
To hell with Liberalism or Conservatism, call me a non-partisan, I don’t care. I do not care what labels there are, what party you belong to, or even what side of the force you follow. Everyone wants to know what the hell is screwing up America’s economy, let me tell you.
Money and greed.
Hey everyone, it has been a pretty busy couple of weeks! Sorry for the lack of updates, however I have said my personal site probably won’t be updated often. I’m big into gaming. I don’t play World of Warcraft anymore, ya sorry to disappoint, but I do play other MMO games. There are tons of new games that are being developed at this time. A lot of them I’m really looking forward to trying out and playing. So without further ado here is a list of the Top 5 Can’t Wait MMO Games on Circuitbomb.com – Each of these games, are either nearing, or entering their beta phases – you can register for the betas at their official websites.
Ahh yes, StarWars. The ever beating heart of a classic science fiction setting is coming to gaming screens everywhere in the form of a formidably addicting massively multi-player online game.
StarWars: The Old Republic is set to be a fully immersive title, and the first MMO to have fully voiced over gameplay. That’s right, while you play this game, non-player characters, player characters, and more will talk to you with a story telling atmosphere, giving you a new hardcore feeling of being in the game. This vast game is set to take place 3000 years before the rise of Darth Vader and the other characters from the movies we all love. Every fan of this great fictional universe is watching and waiting for Bioware, the developers behind other great titles such as Mass Effect, Neverwinter Nights 1 and 2, and Baldurs Gate fame, to deliver the most in-depth and exciting game to hit the Sci-Fi niche in a decade.
I’m proud to say that I’m a daddy. A common expression I’ve heard time and time again, is anyone can be a father, but it takes a real man to be a dad. To me this expression has always meant a lot. There is nobody else in this world that can smile and bring tears of joy to my face. The most inspiring person I have yet to know is my daughter with an empty box.
How important to my child is that empty cardboard box?
To her the importance doesn’t lie in the materials that created the box or the process which folded it. The importance of that box is what she can do with it. What can she put in it, or take out of it. So how does a box affect all of us? What makes a box so important to the people of the world?
Everything.
Everything we do, everyday, in some way involves a box of some kind. Our homes, are boxes. Our cars, our places of work, are boxes. The electronics that power your pda’s and cellphones are contained in boxes. Computers are even referred to as a box. Look at our briefcases and food packaging. Boxes are the single most essential creation to have ever been discovered by mankind, even before the wheel.
It doesn’t matter what shape the box is, what matters is what we can use it for, how can we further it’s purpose. Boxes can store anything you can fit in them, with perhaps the exception of solubles, unless its plastic. Instead of throwing that old box out, use it for a tack boardto hang your notes.
Big boxes, can be turned into little boxes. Cut up your big boxes and fold them into little boxes to sort small objects in your garage or workshop. Do you recycle? Use a few boxes in another area of your home to ease or provide extra space to put your recyclables until it’s time to take them to the proper place.
Get creative with boxes your not using, or that you find. If there is something that my child has taught me with a box, it’s that it can be used for a million different things.
Be creative. Recycle, Reuse, Restore our Climate.
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I love to write. I do. Writing has been a fantastic outlet for me in the past which I reflect on from time to time. When I was learning to use a keyboard back in my younger years, I never learned home row. I just didn’t. Learning home row was not a practical approach to typing for me. I had to learn my own way. You see, during high school I took computer classes, just because I love computers. The classes were designed to teach basic computer use, and of course we used one of those fancy ‘Learn to type’ programs which have you place your fingers on home row. I loved breezing through this software, finishing my tasks first, and on time. Without using home row. Mind you, my typing is not far from home row. I don’t type each key while looking at it, bringing my finger from above my head to slam onto the keyboard. I type, and I type fast enough.
Writing is a very important factor in the business place. Sometimes you don’t really realize how much writing you do. Documentation, technical documents, memos, emails, presentations, letters; all these things you can eventually find yourself doing within the workplace. If there is one thing I hate, it’s poor writing. So I strive to ensure what I write is good.
So what is this all amounting up to?
Twitter is a beast in it’s own. All of us that use it, know this. The other day I came across a very cool concept being worked on by @kittenthebad. The bad cat developed some code which can graph out your twitter conversations through depth. This almost sounds like a search engine robot. How cool. Anyways upon request Kitten hooked me up with my very own Twitter conversation graph, giving me a hearty look into my social atmosphere in the Twitterverse.
As you can see I may not be causing a stack overflow like some people do, but I think I’m doing ok for what I’ve got. I think this is just wonderful.
Well first I want to start off by thanking @jonmacdonald again for inviting me to Simler, fantastic. I caught wind of Simler by way of hash tags on twitter (#simler) so it pulled my interest so I had to learn more. The Simler homepage kindly informs you that it’s in beta, whats its about, and if you know someone you can get an invite. I just couldn’t wait, so I started shouting through the twitterverse to get one, sure enough a kind soul came through.
If it isnt what Simler does that gets you, it’s gonna be the cute monkey hanging around all happy and stuff…anyways.
First order of business -> make friends, I mean thats what its all about right? So whats different about Simler than all the other Web apps out there with profiles and friends? Simler lets you find people who have the same interests as you, Simler lets you find people talking about the same things your thinking about. Simler is just plain out addicting.
Next creating tags is easy as heck, and very easy to find. Creating a comment space for each new created tag for discussion to take place in. Its just a whole world of fantastic, I don’t even know everything it does yet.
If you in there however you can easily post your twitter name with @yourtwittername, and it will automatically link to your twitter profile. Next use brackets around tags in Simler to link directly to that tags discussion. And on top of that, link directly to a twitter search for a hash tag using…what else #thetag. Very cool, very workable.
If you havnt checked out Simler.com yet, do it, and if you havn’t got in for the beta -> Direct message me on twitter @Circuitbomb with your email address and if I have any invites left, I will give you one.
See you if your Simler.
Recently I’ve been taking a look at returning coordinate (x, y) values in jQuery. At first I was a bit confused between the differences between two functions in jQuery. These two functions are offset() and position(). Given the jQuery documentation, the descriptions for these two functions could probably use a little more descriptive reference. Though I may just be playing that card in part of my own misunderstanding at first, though it wouldn’t be the first time the jQuery docs have confused me.
Respectively lets look at the descriptions for these two functions.
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A father and husband first and foremost, I'm a creator, developer, geek, gamer, and swivel chair riding champion.