So yeah, unimpressed.

It is just about impossible to find hard copies of references or tech books.  I know that the internet is a widely available source, but sometimes you just have to have the paper copies of things. Especially when it comes to older languages like C. ANSI C. Not C#. Not Visual C.net. Not C++. Searching the internet for ANSI C tutorials (or help or examples or whatever) doesn’t net very much. (OMG PUN)

So I looked up a couple books based on reccomendations. There’s an 840 page ‘For Dummies’ book that is supposed to be quite good regarding getting into ANSI C especially coming from other languages. And then a C Reference book that would be useful. Especially when getting into the more in-depth usage of C (since there’s no “javadoc” for the C libraries online, at least that I’ve been able to find.) Of course these are only available in one store up in Austin. Even the library doesn’t know anything about these books.

San Antonio only exists for the Spurs, the Alamo, and the Riverwalk. Oh and the Government/Military and the Medical Center. If you’re not employed in one of those things, you might be mowing the grass (and then blowing the trimmings out into the street for someone else to deal with!!! [but that's a rant for another time])

San Antonio Sucks.

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*sigh*

WordPress does almost everything well. Except pasting code. It can’t handle that #include<stdlib.h> is not an HTMLs.

So I need a blag that doesn’t suck at handling code. Searching the intertubes for source code blog doesn’t get me very far…

As it appears, joomla has poor user control. There’s no granulation. So the website I’m working on for my corporation in Eve Online isn’t going to work in joomla. Mostly I need something simple to manage content. A Content Management System as it were. Joomla isn’t going to cut it. It’ll do for now, until I can find something else to manage the content.

My requirements aren’t horrible.

• Blogging type stuff – to allow corp members, who feel so inclined to post articles about their excapades
• News type stuff -  to allow the corporation to post news entries for things that happen corp wide
• Calendar type thinger – to allow the corporation to post events and/or due dates. I think this is probably very important because we need to be able to have deadlines posted somewhere easy for everyone to access. Helping to ensure that we don’t default on any corporation contracts.
• Static Document management – To hold things like the Corporate bylaws (once I figure out how to write bylaws) and other official corporate documents
• User management – I need at least the ability to moderate users to the site. And then a bit of permissions management within the site, so that not everyone can create events, post news, or muck with the corporate documents.

So the requirements for the site aren’t too strenuous, but joomla fails miserably regarding the user management. Which pretty much breaks the entire thing.

Drupal might do it, but I’ve read that drupal is quite complex. I don’t particularly want to roll my own CMS, as there’s already plenty out there, and my goal isn’t to build a CMS, the goal is to build the content, which is going to be difficult enough.

The problem here is not that this was all done in a panic. The problem is not that there are evil people. There will always be evil people. The problem is not that it doesn’t have enough oversight.

The problem is that it was done at all. This money is going to be poorly managed compared to someone’s hard earned dollars. There’s no cost to these polititcians spending this money. They don’t care how the money is spent, only that it results in their being reelected next time.

The thing is, no one even considered the consequences of this stimulus. Well, no one in the federal government.

We THE PEOPLE should be very angry. We should be making this anger known to the Federal Government. They need to know that we don’t like what they’re doing. And if you do like what they’re doing, keep in mind that there’s no such thing as a free lunch. What seems good for you right now comes at what cost to others? When does that cost come around to you?

Yeah, lets stifle an already struggling economy by “solving” “global warming” by taxing the hell out of our staple food item.

This is probably not going to result in anything but people using more soy to make their products cheaper. This has a significant impact to me, being allergic to soy. Via this legislation we’ll end up making all of our meat products crappier. People aren’t going to want to pay more to “solve” the “global warming” “problem” (I apologize for the excessive use of quotations.) Global warming simply hasn’t been proven well enough to enough people for this to be necessary. Not to mention that there have been cows farting up a storm for a whole lot longer than the global warming thing appeared. I hardly think this tax is going to do anything for this. </rant>

That is spectacular! If my budget at home had this kind of deficit, I wouldn’t be able to eat, much less help anyone else.

The only solution to this is smaller government. A dramatic reduction of government programs is needed. Shut down vast government bureaucracies, and make it cheaper for government to operate.

This country will cease to exist with a continuing deficit like this.

Yeah, this is intolerable. The bailout itself was intolerable, but this is worse.

Were we not promised transparency and accountability?

Don’t they realize that this man asked for $700 Billion to save our economy? Don’t they realize that this $700 Billion didn’t do ANYTHING? Our economy is in the tank, the dollar is on the verge of collapse, and they want to give this man a medal? He didn’t DO anything.  Well, except for spending $2 trillion without telling you where it goes. Oh! And now the “world’s reserve currency” is set up for a catastrophic failure.

Of course, this is yet another incident of the government rewarding the failures whilst taking money from the ones who succeed. You know, someone at work told me I should take all my money and buy gold. Maybe I should’ve listened…

This is ridiculous. The government has absolutely no right to place the burden of a failing company on the tax payers. If the corporation is crappy, it needs to die. This is simply capitalism at work; it hurts, but it works.

We need to stop our congress from making things worse and placing a burden of greater than $700 BILLION on the taxpayers.

Government – If you think the problems we create are bad, wait until you see our solutions.