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“It is natural for the common people to not want war but, after all, it is a country’s leaders who determine policy and it is an easy matter to convince the people. Whether they have a voice or not, the people can always be made to do what their rulers wish. It’s easy. All you have to do is tell them they are under attack and condemn the pacifists for their lack of patriotism and for exposing their country to danger.”

Field Marshall Hermann Goering

Well, the support BBS for the software here got trashed. Sorry about that, not really anything I can do to recover it. I’ll be evaluating BBS software all over again since I have to make a clean sweep anyway. I’ll probably host it on nule.org now instead of thot.us too. I was just lazy to begin with, I guess.

Update: There’s a new BBS up now. Here’s the link: http://thot.us/phpbb/viewforum.php?f=3

Well, Amanda and I have a location locked for our wedding. Looks like it’ll be June 30th of next year at Holden arboretum We’re only inviting between 50 and 75 people so don’t be too hurt if you don’t get an invite. We simply don’t have the resources for a big wedding. It should be nice and tasteful though and lots of fun.

Other than that I’ve just been enjoying the summer and enjoying the new job. I’m busy trying to decide what my next fun programming project will be. Also, both Amanda and I play World of Warcraft and get a free month with any referrals. If you’re interested in playing let me know and I can get you a 10 day free trial.

For those that have been anxiously awaiting a new release of the HL7 Comm utility, you’ll not have to wait much longer. I implemented a sample business logic (LogicAgent) which, of all the useless things, is designed to slow down whatever it is you’re interfacing with a specified delay between each message. In effect it ensures a maximum rate of transmission (though obviously not a minimum). You’d be surprised how often it comes up that some system wants messages, but not too fast, please. I also squished another bug, which, of course, is the last one to be found in the program.

Had a crazy party on Friday. Lasting nearly 15 hours I was in no shape to handle Saturday. A nap or two got me through it, though. I good time was pretty much had by all excluding one guest who started antagonizing the others. I’d say “you know who you are” except they probably can’t remember being a prick. Oh well, no harm done in the end.

I wanted to clarify my earlier sentiment that my job at CCF didn’t treat me too well. Just to be absolutely clear, when I worked for IT it was fine, it’s when I switched to a clinical department things were less than rosy. Perhaps saying I was treated as “a worthless piece of shit” is overstating things, but that’s OK – it’s what I do.

Lots of links incoming to old nule.org these days. Seems I have some attention from various healthcare IT blogs. That’s good, I guess. I know there are enterprising people out there that will make good use of my software if only they know about it. I’ll keep coming up with new stuff as long as people keep using it. It’s a bit discouraging to see places like CCF totally ditch the open-source stuff in favor of proprietary products. They want the extra 10% of functionality, but you have to admit it’s funny that a one-man band can implement 90% of the functionality that an entire corporation can put into their product. This time when I say “you know who you are” you really do know who you are.