It doesn't take a team of professors led by a Nobel Prize-winning physicist to see that the tax-payer funded stimulus has had little tangible effect on the economy or on the bottom-line of job creation, but I guess some Nobel prize winners see nothing but good times ahead this summer as the Obama Regime plans a "Recovery Summer" to celebrate the gains and accomplishments created from the last go-round.

  But that's not all, of course. Since it worked so well the last time, Obama is once again seeking taxpayer money from Congress to extend programs from the last stimulus bill.

  This is especially important now because there are tens of thousands of workers in the Gulf area alone who are about to join the unemployment rolls if King Obama doesn't lift his moratorium on offshore drilling. I think that the Census Bureau is still taking applications so that the Feds can continue to inflate job numbers, though, so take heart if you're about to lose your job on an oil rig. And don't worry, they'll hire you even if you have a record.

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Well, Fort Sam had started blocking ZA a couple months ago, which was making it hard to update. Finally an order allowing all social media sites unless specifically blocked came out so I submitted my site to have it unblocked again and, voila, I'm back on the air!

Speaking of Fort Sam, last week on Friday I turned in my two week's notice to my boss and our Director. I have accepted a job at the Installation Management Command (IMCOM) HQ as a GS-13, which is a promotion for me. Right now I am going to be the Configuration Management Lead, which is something I have some experience with as I actually created and run the Configuration Management Process where I work now. I was told today, however, that apparently the organization is in flux and that my job may change before I even get there. I guess as long as the pay is the same I can tackle anything that they can throw at me.

I'm genuinely sad to be leaving my team at the Network Enterprise Center, as I have worked hard to put together a good group of people and they are all really great guys. We have been through a lot together, and I consider most of them to be friends. I am also excited at the potential of this new environment, and I am confident that I can succeed there. It's an organization that is growing and I think that a truly motivated individual can stand out there. I hope so!

I started working at the NEC as a contractor when my friend Tony called me up and asked if I was interested in working over there. It was a substantial raise from my salary at the time, and I had enjoyed working with Tony when we were in the Air Force together, so I took the opportunity. After he had taken the GS supervision job and then left, I positioned myself to replace him. It almost didn't happen, as the NEC Director at the time had a thing about contractors getting government jobs (even if they had Veteran's preference, as I did) and didn't want to negotiate pay with me. I ended up getting the job, but not without a nearly $10k a year pay cut. It was worth it to me for the opportunity, however, as I knew that this could be a career. So for the past three years this is what I've been doing, working hard to make the Networks team the best in the NEC while having an impact on the other groups around me as well. It's been a lot of hard, mostly gratifying work.

These last two weeks are going to be full of prepping my team, my replacement, and myself for my move. I can't believe that this day has arrive and that I'm leaving. They say the only thing that's consistent in life is change, so here's to the next big change for me!

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I will be performing some maintenance and upgrades to the site tonight, which may cause a few outages or site slowdowns. I will hopefully be starting them sometime around 6pm CST.

Not expecting many if any visible changes; most of this stuff will be security patching and background stuff like that.

If you're interested about the makeup of this site and want to know more about where I got a lot of the pieces that make it work, visit Raven PHP Scripts. They have what I think is the best PHP-Nuke distribution around, and Raven and his team are constantly keeping it up-to-date and secure.

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Dude, this cool. Engadget is reporting that Sony has applied for a patent that, utilizing 3D TV technology and shutter glasses (a la those $100 3D glasses kids keep breaking at the Best Buy 3D TV display), will allow two people to play a video game, sharing the same screen, but both seeing different images.

I remember the days of playing GoldenEye for the Nintendo64 and trying to see what was going on in those tiny squares on our already tiny TV when I was a kid, and this is cool. Even now on my substantially larger TV, split-screen can be distracting when there's a lot of action going on, like in Left 4 Dead. This idea is awesome, and a little trippy.

Apparently Microsoft is doing the same type of thing, only sans the glasses.

Man I love living in the future.

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