Damon1974's Personal Web Blog

Marrianne taking photos of family heilrlooms

2009-08-16T15:04:00.000-05:00

Crazy lady.

Jennica, stringing her life away

2009-07-11T20:35:00.001-05:00

Gotcha sucka!

My new toy. I will run you over.

2008-08-02T01:38:00.000-05:00

Waiting for the new 3G iPhone

2008-07-10T21:04:00.000-05:00

I have officially lost my mind!!

Drivers Bureau

2008-06-30T09:18:00.000-05:00

What a joke.

Lunch at DSPD

2008-01-25T13:10:00.000-06:00

Lunch at DSPD

2008-01-25T12:57:00.000-06:00

This was in the common lunch area. It was nice to kind of get away,
even if its a phony jungle setting.

Today is Hotdog Day!!!

2007-12-14T12:38:00.001-06:00

$5.75 !! And that includes 3 Chili Cheese Dogs, and a Soda. Yeah!

Snowing at the customer site

2007-12-13T11:22:00.000-06:00

Let it snow!!

Lunch with Jared and Baby Amy

2007-11-30T12:33:00.000-06:00

Went to Philly for work this week. Had lunch with Jared on Friday.(Chinese Buffet) It was nice hanging with some of the crew and joking around.

Jared's daughter Amy was cute and reminded me of my daughter.

Upgrade weekend

2007-11-17T12:20:00.000-06:00

Hanging with the client. (J-BO) She has done lost her mind a long time ago.

Dinner at Lanes House

2007-11-16T17:42:00.001-06:00

Lane the pirate

Hanging with BusaJoe

2007-11-10T13:28:00.000-06:00

Chris running a Trencher. I got tired just watching.

Lazy Day

2007-11-07T16:38:00.000-06:00

I spent most of the day on the phone for work. Finally a chance to
relax. Looks like Melissa had the same idea.

Quick Drive-thru pic at the BK

2007-11-04T09:29:00.000-06:00

Only in the Midwest do you need something this ridiculous!

New Halloween Program for the iPhone

2007-11-01T00:52:00.000-05:00

Me in a Halloween outfit.

Halloween 2007

2007-10-31T08:25:00.000-05:00

Miranda Holding a Pumpkin

Miranda as Cat Woman!! Meow!!

This was the first and only person I saw in a costume today. (Vinson)

I am in Conneticut on business and apparently they don't celebrate Halloween they way we do in Kansas City. The K.C. nuts were in costume most of all last week. On the way in to the customer site I didn't see anyone in masks, or pass a single person in costume on the way in the building.

Nobody at the hotel was in costume either. This is so different then what I am used to. Hopefully I will see more costumes later on today. I will post a few if I get some pics. (There wasn't anymore. Boo that!!)

Happy Halloween All!!!

Dakota's October Visit

2007-10-30T22:42:00.001-05:00

Dakota and Miranda October 2007 - Miranda at 7 Months

Dakota came to visit the weekend before Halloween. It was a great visit and we got some geocaching in as well. It was nice to go out geocaching with my father and my son. I look forward to his next visit. :)

Good Childrens Movie

2007-06-25T00:05:00.000-05:00

Saw a good movie the other day. Great kid movie. I didn't mind watching it either, some parts were a little dramatic, but overall good movie with a decent story line.

The Last Mimzy was the name of the movie.

They have a good trailer on their website.

http://www.mimzy.com/

The Last King of Scotland

2007-04-14T00:03:00.000-05:00

Watched the movie "The Last King of Scotland". Pretty good movie. Surprised me. I wasn't sure what to expect but it ended up being real good. If you get a chance to see it you should.

It may even be available on the Internet?? So I hear.

Had a rough work day so I figured I needed to unwind with a good movie.

AJAYHAWKFAN Geocoin Find

2007-04-12T18:14:00.000-05:00

Had to run errands today. I have been putting it off for a while. Lazy I guess. Was needing a haircut real badly. Of course to get a haircut you have to shave as well. Oh, forgot to mentioned that I haven't shaved or had a haircut since before Miranda was born. You can't just get your haircut with a full beard, they look at you weird and then insist on trying to make the 2 blend. Not possible and all that ends up happening is you end up looking stupid. So shave and haircut done.

Noticed on Geocaching.com that someone had placed the AJAYHAWKFAN geocoin in one of my favorite caches. Not really a favorite cache but I know where it is as I have been there before. I thought I had found this coin once before, but when I got home realized that someone had duped me the Silver trackable coin, with this second hand wooden coin.(Non-trackable). Contacted the owner of the coins and he told me to contact the previous depositor of said coin. When I did he informed me he was keeping the coin and sorry for the mixup. All I heard was Blah, Blah, Blah, I am a thieving bastard. Whatever.

So today I jumped at the chance to grab the coin. It is an excellently done coin and very well done overall. You can visit off the main page by clicking the treasure chest at the bottom. So far it is one of my favorite coins. I can't wait to set up my own cache. I found the special Lock&Lock container at Walmart today. They were expensive online. $2.97 at Walmart. Walmart will run the government out of business some day. Too cheap to compete with. Still need a miniature notebook for my cache. I also need to contact my friend Keith as he knows how to make stickers. You have to label the cache so a deadbeat doesn't find it and take it all home. Then again, if he can read.

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Digital Signatures

2007-04-11T12:32:00.000-05:00

Had to wake up at 8:00am Central Standard time to attend this Digital Signature Training for work. 1st part of training was telling us that we have a central repository for documents. This is basically a huge file server that holds documents and keeps all versions of a document for a tracking history and accountability. Period. That's all it is. I always travel so I have no access to this repository as it is behind the company firewalls. So when I am on-site at a customer and need official documents, I can't get them. Amazing.

Enough about the glorified file server.

So this Digital Signature business is a big deal. It allows you to "Sign" an electronic document. Usually when you are done signing an electronic document, you will see the persons Signature(Scanned Image of an Actual signature), as well as the date of the e-sig, and sometimes even a reason as to why you signed it. At the far left you have a huge green check that states "Verified". This allows the person receiving it to know that you actually signed it. Without this verification their is no way of knowing if the original party signed it. Sounds good so far right.

Well the trick to the digital signature is all contained within a certificate. What is a certificate you ask? It's basically a token or code with which to compare the digital signature to. If you have the wrong certificate then the signature won't check out.

My company has decided to not use the Certificate. So we will be sending documents with a digital signature that can't be verified. When I asked why we are doing it this way, they stated that there was no system in place at the time, so this is a start. Also it was stated that using certificates was too complicated for users. Sorry if it's too complicated, Electronic Signatures are suppose to be a little complicated!

Makes no sense to me. It's like building a car, knowing you need to secure it. So then someone says lets put door handles on and a lock mechanism, but for now we won't actually lock the door. It's a start.

Why do I even try?

First Web Blog

2007-04-10T23:34:00.000-05:00

Today is the first day of my new Web Blog. Thought I would get one started for all my random thoughts. The damn calendar in this Web Blog sucks! It keeps opening to December 1999. What do you expect for free.

Baby is still causing us problems. Lack of sleep is hard for me and Melissa. Doesn't help that I am working from home. Makes things difficult during the day. Most of the time she is an angel at night. How can someone so cute be so unstable.

I can't wait till we get the sleep thing figured out. Hopefully things will sort themselves out before I am back on the road again.

On a side note I am looking forward to some Xbox 360 time. Don't think I have turned it on but twice since the baby was born. Actually, I have been too busy geocaching. Something has to give. Sorry Xbox.