A few years back, I was at the March For Life and I was really frustrated by the completely biased news coverage. So, I tried to buy one of the March for Life domain names. Well, today, the transaction was completed and I am now the owner of www.MarchForLife.net. Actually, it did not expect this at all. Life is full of surprises!
This is exciting for me, because it is an opportunity to create a record of undeniable facts about the massive size of the March For Life and the tremendous youthfulness of the pro-life movement. It's amazing every year to see the pictures of others when I cannot make it and to see the march itself when I can make it. Every religion (plus I absolutely love the Atheists For Life who are always at the march). Every skin color. More women than men, which just blows away the stereotype that its a bunch of men trying to control women. And, more young people than ever before.
Having 5 young boys, I am walking that fine line. Don't want to turn them off to something by being too pushy, you know. I brought my oldest son Billy about 4 years ago, and he didn't want to go to the march since then. I think it was mostly all the walking involved. So, I'm not always able to be at the march even though I wish I could be there.
My plan for the website. We'll I supposed I should pray about it, right? Originally, my idea was to create a way for people to submit photos, videos, links to blogs, news articles, and YouTube videos. A way to categorize by year and march (because, there is now more than one March For Life. They are all over the country). Ask me if I remembered to pray about this in a couple days...
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Healing
I've been moving into "healing" over the past 4 years. Focused on Jesus Christ as healer. Not yoga or transcendental meditation. I've been fascinating by the work being done in the theophostic movement (http://www.theophostic.com/) and Dr. Lehman's Immanuel apporach to healing (kclehman.com), both very Christ-centered. And, I'm just wondering, is anybody out there who reads this blog -- and I know there are at least 2 or 3 of you -- anybody interested in emotional healing?
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Unofficial Bound Brook Election Results
Mayor
Carey Pilato (R) 784 Anthony Pranzatelli (D) 759
Borough Council
John Miller (R) 802
John-Paul Levin (R) 758
Hal Dietrich (D) 735
Vinnie Petti (D) 726
Congratulations to Carey Pilato, John Miller, and John-Paul Levin!
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Atlantic Imaging Group
I am excited to announce my new employer: Atlantic Imaging Group, located in Cedar Knolls, NJ. Atlantic Imaging Group is a Diagnostic Radiology Network primarily servicing the Personal Injury and Workers Compensation market and is THE ONLY COMPANY IN THE COUNTRY TO PRE-FUND ITS CLAIMS WITHIN 72 HOURS OF RECEIPT OF THE CLAIM.
This is a great privately owned small business with a strong business plan. I am part of a team of 5 in the Information Technology group, and we are HIRING! This is a great opportunity for the right person. AIG is becoming a victim of her own success and her software platform is in need of a re-write allow her to continue to grow the volume and further increase profitability.
We need strong C# developers to join the team. Check out our ad on stack overflow and if you think you might be the right person, then please send along your resume!
This is a great privately owned small business with a strong business plan. I am part of a team of 5 in the Information Technology group, and we are HIRING! This is a great opportunity for the right person. AIG is becoming a victim of her own success and her software platform is in need of a re-write allow her to continue to grow the volume and further increase profitability.
We need strong C# developers to join the team. Check out our ad on stack overflow and if you think you might be the right person, then please send along your resume!
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Added Mild.MembershipProvider to GitHub
Tonight, I added Mild.MembershipProvider to GitHub. This is a work in progress, but I got a new job and I probably won't have a chance to continue working on it for a while, so I'm posting it to Github in the hopes that maybe someone else will take an interest and continue the labor of love.
It's a re-write of the old Microsoft membership provider. I started with the ScottGu's link to the source: http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/b/3/ab3c284b-dc9a-473d-b7e3-33bacfcc8e98/ProviderToolkitSamples.msi. Then, I did a lot of ReSharper to it. Finally, I began the process of applying the Dependency Injection pattern to the ADO.NET portions of the code. My plan was to re-write the ADO.NET portions with Linq-To-Sql. Now, I'm thinking maybe I should add a version of the code with Massive.
The idea is that we should be able to use any data source we want easily without having to worry about sacrificing all the functionality built-in to the ASP.NET 2.0 Providers. I know that Microsoft is re-writing their Providers anyway to work well with the new compact and express versions of SQL Server, but they did not release the source of that yet (as far as I know), so we can't really do much with that in the open source community. So, I used the old ASP.NET Provider source code as my starting point.
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Minimal Flooding
Great news! Article say the downtown ended up getting only a few feet of water: http://www.mycentraljersey.com/article/20110830/NJNEWS/308300020/Bound-Brook-crediting-flood-controls-minimizing-Irene-damage?odyssey=nav|head.
That is stunning. Basically, we got another 500 year flood similar to Tropical Storm Floyd, and there was only a few feet of water.
That is stunning. Basically, we got another 500 year flood similar to Tropical Storm Floyd, and there was only a few feet of water.
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Probably my last Hurricane Irene post
Tomorrow, I am going to work at the new job I just started last week. So, this is my last Hurricane Irene post.
Listening to Somerset County and Central Jersey Public Safety Live Audio feed from www.radioreference.com. It sounds like Bound Brook is using police boats and checking on various calls. It also sounds like there are posts and checkpoints, which makes a lot of sense to prevent looters. There is a 7PM curfew. The boats are responding to a bunch of false alarms going off at various places in the downtown of Bound Brook. I would imagine that water is setting off a lot of false alarms. There is a water victim who is being transferred via ambulance from the lost valley to Manville High School. Then, a helicopter is going to Medivac the person to Somerset Hospital. Sounds like there is more activity in Manville. But, I also hear a constant helicopter flying sound coming from downtown Bound Brook.
National Weather Service updated the crest to be 41.8 feet at 2AM tonight, just slightly under Tropical Storm Floyd. Hoping that the flood levies combined with the pumps will at least reduce the level of flooding.
With gratitude to PSE&G, National Guard, Police, Fire, OEM, Maintenance Department, Red Cross, divers, pilots, Council, Mayor and anyone else for all their hard work over this weekend and to come. Readers, keep your eyes on www.boundbrookoem.org for updates.
Listening to Somerset County and Central Jersey Public Safety Live Audio feed from www.radioreference.com. It sounds like Bound Brook is using police boats and checking on various calls. It also sounds like there are posts and checkpoints, which makes a lot of sense to prevent looters. There is a 7PM curfew. The boats are responding to a bunch of false alarms going off at various places in the downtown of Bound Brook. I would imagine that water is setting off a lot of false alarms. There is a water victim who is being transferred via ambulance from the lost valley to Manville High School. Then, a helicopter is going to Medivac the person to Somerset Hospital. Sounds like there is more activity in Manville. But, I also hear a constant helicopter flying sound coming from downtown Bound Brook.
National Weather Service updated the crest to be 41.8 feet at 2AM tonight, just slightly under Tropical Storm Floyd. Hoping that the flood levies combined with the pumps will at least reduce the level of flooding.
With gratitude to PSE&G, National Guard, Police, Fire, OEM, Maintenance Department, Red Cross, divers, pilots, Council, Mayor and anyone else for all their hard work over this weekend and to come. Readers, keep your eyes on www.boundbrookoem.org for updates.
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