Updates

I really need to remember to update this more often.

It looks like my last weight update was back in march.  As of today I have lost 24 lbs.  They are becoming more and more difficult to lose but I keep going, would like to do another 5 lbs and then I think I will be content.  In July I have joined a "Calorie Burning Challenge" with Dave and a few other people so that should help motivate me for the next month.

I really haven't done much development lately.  Netflix has recently gave notice that they will soon stop provided rental history via the API that that pretty much makes stalkflicks.com pointless.  I do have the rotten tomatoes API integrated now so I will most likely continue to just provide info, ratings and reviews for movies.  I have also decided to move the whatson2night stuff over to stalkflicks so it will turn into movies and TV shows with notification for both.

I have actually done some golfing this year, 4 or 5 times already which is more then the last couple of years combined.  I may look into relaunching my golf stats website.

Makynzie just complete her first season of softball.  They lost every game but one, but they went out with a win so that was fun.  She improved greatly over the weeks and it was fun to watch.  Izzy hasn't been to the hospital in almost a year I think so for her that's doing well.

Private Test

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Moving

This blog will no longer be updated.  The new blog can be found here http://blog.ikmyer.com

Moving Back to this one... I know, I just can't make up my mind.  I will be moving a much of new content to this one so get ready for a flood of updates.

Vimeo

Over the next week I will be moving all my video's from Google Video to http://www.vimeo.com.

This new service allows me to upload HD video's and has a lot more features. The reason for the switch is due to Google Video will in a sence be shutting down (no more uploads) soon.

I plan to take and post a lot more video of the the girls and family events from now on so check back often.

Building New (old) Server

I am in the process of building a new server which is actually an older pc then the current server. The new one is about half as fast as the current one though I don't think you'll be able to tell. The Gallery might slow down just a bit but thats not really a huge deal being that the bottle neck is really my upload connection. I'm making the switch so that I can use the faster PC for my secondary PC which i use for testing apps and doing stats.

The change over will most likely be this weekend. The change is Complete

Working at the Golf Course

Its offical. I will be working another season at the Golf Course this year. The plan is to not work so many hours, so I talked to the new pro this year and I will be working Monday and Friday Nights. I could really care less about how much I acutaly work, the less the better. My main reason for going back is for the free Golf.

Transfer to New Server/Hosting

Over the weekend I worked on moving this site over to a new hosting service. Though it took about 8 hours to move the whole ikmyer.com site it was really a smooth process. The only reason it took so long was due to the size of the site which came in around 1.3 gigs ( most of which are images ). You will notice with the new hosting the speed of the site will be much faster. I think i have tested most of the sub sites of ikmyer.com but if you run into any issues please let me know.

Address Book

As a small php project I created an Online Address Book

Please feel free to sign up and enter any address you have to save. Your account is safe and no other users can view your address. Also has a "Christmas List" feature that will help when it comes time for christmas cards.

Let me know if you have any questions or comments

New Tile on the Porch

So yesterday the wife gets the idea that the porch needs to have new tile and starts sending me samples to look at on the Internet. I told her I didn't really have a preference and kinda left it at that. The next thing i know she is calling me saying that she has all the stairs ripped up and all the lose pieces up and is ready for the new tile. When i get home from work she is gone to the store looking for tile and $90 later she comes home with all the supplies needed. Although I didn't really plan on spending the night putting down new tile on the porch I ended up helping her because i knew it was going to take long then she expected. We started the project at around 6:00 pm and finished up at about 10:30 ( not complete ). We decided to not put tile on the stairs to the basement and to just paint it. That is my new project for the weekend, Super Bowl weekend I might add. She better hope I get the paint done on Saturday because i can guarantee it will not get done this weekend if its not done by Saturday night. During the tiling project we seemed ( Brooke will say i did it ) to have scared the crap out of the dog and for some reason he is afraid to go up and down the 2 stairs leading to the kitchen.

The New Business

So it appears Dave and I are kinda getting serious about starting up a Computer Store/Repair Shop Business. We have a lot of work ahead of us and we don't have that much experience so it could take us a while to figure out what we want to do. Right now the plan is to find a place we can get for free as we can not afford to lease or buy a place at the moment. I hopes are set high for the Four Star roofing company to allow us to use there unused office space to set up shop. If this doesn't work out we will have to start out of our basements. Currently we are working on a Business Plan.

Current Projects

For the last 2 months a friend of mine and I have been working on creating some websites. I though I would take a min and explain our first 2 major projects.

The first one consists of combining a POS (point of sales) web based application with a calendar. We are customizing the POS to conform to a hair style business and also we needed to integrate a calendar or appointment book if you will. The first round we integrated a calendar that we found on the web and it was very deep in detail and really was over kill for the needs we had. So after about 2 weeks of getting it all to work we scrapped the calendar we found and decided to create our own. Couple weeks later we have it done and it is ready for testing.
The second project is a Daycare Management System. We created this based off an access database that Dave had created a couple years ago. We decided to redesign the application and make it web based so that we could easily update and make changed, and add new features as time goes on.� This will enable us to provide better support as well. In the site it has the capability to store all the clients, children, income, expenses, and a ton of reports. Currently the idea is to offer the service to the public and charge a monthly or yearly fee and reap some rewards for all the hard work we have done. Please feel free to ask any questions or post any comments in the forum.
I have the planning of our 3^rd project underway but any work has yet to be done and it is being kept a secrete so I can not tell you about that right now, but once complete I will let you know.

Happy New Year !!

Its a new year. Have you made your resolution yet ?? I haven't, still can't decide. So much to do so little time. I hope everyone had a good Christmas and a Happy New year. I had a nice vacation, got my Xbox 360 so i pretty much played that the whole time. The Gallery has been updated with pictures from Christmas and in the next couple days I will be getting the video and pictures from Makynzie birthday up. Thanks to all of those that made it, she had such a fun time. Check back soon for the videos.

How I didn’t get the Xbox 360

The holiday break was nice and relaxing but it could have been a little nicer had I not waited in the freezing cold for 7 hours to not end up with the new xbox. Yep, that’s right 7 hours I waited out in front of Toy’s R’ Us only to go home empty handed, that was a long night. It started out at about 10:30 pm Monday night when I was getting ready to head out to Wal-mart to check out the madness. I got there to find that they were going to do a raffle for the 40 ( 20 prem. 20 core ) xbox 360’s. So I get in line… get my ticket… and wait… and wait… and wait. Its 1:30 am and 40 numbers have been called, but not mine… “ Thanks for shopping at Wal-mart, have a nice night” ... ( hit read more for rest of story )

On the way home I go drive by toy’s R US to see 3 people sitting at the front door…Man these people are crazy I think to myself… I go home and go to bed. 20 mins of tossing and turning, I can’t sleep. The wife tells me to go get in line…. I leave the house. When I get back to Toy’s R Us there are now 4 people in line. All with chairs and one with a cooler. Everyone makes small talk for couple hours, we then all agree to wait inside our cars to keep warm being there are only 5 of us ( its about 30 degrees out ) After a few rounds of getting in and out of the cars 5:00 am rolls around, people start showing up for work. The drop dead tired feeling goes away. Its getting closer. 6:00 am rolls around, the manager shows up and lets the 5 of us wait inside and gave us some doughnuts, what a nice manager. 7:00 am, more people start showing up to wait in line, lots more. 8:30 am, there are about 30 people in line and the manager goes and tells the people at the end of the line that she doesn’t have that many systems and there is no point in waiting… line goes back down to 10 people. The manager brings out the purchase tickets, asks who’s first in line, they take a premium system… along with the 2^nd and 3^rd place in line. ( I’m 5^th remember ) 4^th place in line “I’m sorry, we only have core systems left” I go home and go to bed, with no xbox..