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Saturday, October 01, 2005
Monday, August 22, 2005
Sunday, April 10, 2005
Baby Brandon
Well, Wendy and I finally parents :) Brandon Christopher Beane was born Saturday morning at 6:07 am, 8 lbs 6oz, 20 1/2 inches long.
More pictures here
Sunday, March 20, 2005
Baby Shower Slideshow
I put together a slideshow of pictures I took at the Baby Shower and the baby's room. Some of the pictures are kind of dark - not my best work :( To view this slideshow, you will need Windows Media Player 10. Enjoy!
Saturday, March 19, 2005
Thursday, March 17, 2005
Tuesday, March 01, 2005
Monday, February 28, 2005
Soccer Dog
In between painting and cleaning this weekend, I took Samuel out to play some ball - his favorite past-time. Here's a little video he and I put together :)
Click here to watch the movie
Click here to watch the movie
Thursday, February 10, 2005
Smileys for firefox
I'm not a huge fan of smileys ... the little emoticons we use to portray moods or expressions. It's not the smileys themselves, mind you, it's the software you have to install to use them. Many programs come with a sufficient set of smileys (eg. MSN Messenger). But sometimes you just can't find the right one and you'd like to have more to choose from. The unfortunate thing is that ALL the smiley programs I have seen are LOADED with spyware. Load the smileys ... welcome to spam world and spyware central.
I finally found a tool that defeats this problem. I use firefox almost exclusively now as my web browser. One of the extensions you can load is called Smiley Xtra. This little gem adds a button to your toolbar which can be used to toggle a window used to list/insert/preview your smileys. The smileys are NOT loaded on your machine, but simply linked to from many of the popular SMILEY servers. Very cool.
So, you want smileys? Get firefox then get Smiley XTra.
I finally found a tool that defeats this problem. I use firefox almost exclusively now as my web browser. One of the extensions you can load is called Smiley Xtra. This little gem adds a button to your toolbar which can be used to toggle a window used to list/insert/preview your smileys. The smileys are NOT loaded on your machine, but simply linked to from many of the popular SMILEY servers. Very cool.
So, you want smileys? Get firefox then get Smiley XTra.
Saturday, February 05, 2005
Tuesday, February 01, 2005
Another busy week
Yet another busy week ... teaching day and night. The bright side is that this is the last week I'll have to do this until next January, so I console myself with that fact.
I'm also starting to study up for a few more exams. My plan is to achieve two, possibly three, more certifications before the baby comes. I'm trying to finish MCDST (Desktop Support), CRCP (Crystal Reports), and possibly MCAD .NET (Application Developer).
Microsoft exams are never fun, but I need to pass some exams before I can start teaching some of the classes I'm already scheduled to teach :| It will open up more opportunities so I am happy I'm doing it, but I just don't like the studying part!
This weekend is our lamaze class - that ought to be a good time :) I'm interested to see what kind of exercises are tought and what other types of individuals show up. That's during the day Saturday, then our church has an annual Stewardship banquet Saturday night.
AND Sunday is the big dance!!! Go PATS!!!!
I'm also starting to study up for a few more exams. My plan is to achieve two, possibly three, more certifications before the baby comes. I'm trying to finish MCDST (Desktop Support), CRCP (Crystal Reports), and possibly MCAD .NET (Application Developer).
Microsoft exams are never fun, but I need to pass some exams before I can start teaching some of the classes I'm already scheduled to teach :| It will open up more opportunities so I am happy I'm doing it, but I just don't like the studying part!
This weekend is our lamaze class - that ought to be a good time :) I'm interested to see what kind of exercises are tought and what other types of individuals show up. That's during the day Saturday, then our church has an annual Stewardship banquet Saturday night.
AND Sunday is the big dance!!! Go PATS!!!!
Friday, January 28, 2005
Lewiston is completely frozen
I don't know how cold it is you all are, but for crying out loud ... I'm sick of this cold. It was -10 again last night. That's FREAKIN cold!! And it seems like it snows everyday. We have about 18 inches on the ground now, after the last two snow storms. It will probably be June before we see the bare ground again.
This week has been amazingly busy ... I've been teaching day and night. I guess that's a good thing, though. The training business had been pretty slow there for a while and now it's really starting to pick up again. Next week I'll be teaching day and night as well, but I won't have to do that again for a while. It will feel like I'm part-time when I go back to teaching just during the day!
The training last week in Tampa was definitely the best training I had ever attended in my 10 years of computer work. The instructor was from Belguim and was extremely knowledgeable and interactive. We all had plenty of time to ask our own specific questions, which really made the training interesting. At night, as I posted before, most of us would go out to dinner together and just talk geek speak like the IBM commercials you see. It was such a great time of networking with other trainers.
Samuel is doing much better this week! He's pretty much back to normal now. He was extremely lethargic when I got home; didn't each much, didn't want to play, just downright depressed. After lots of belly rubs and time playing soccer, he's back to his old butt waggin self (wags hit butt cause he doesn't have a tail).
Well, hope you are all having a great week and have big plans for the weekend. Wendy and I are going to go see Hide and Seek tonight - can't get enough of horror movies :)
This week has been amazingly busy ... I've been teaching day and night. I guess that's a good thing, though. The training business had been pretty slow there for a while and now it's really starting to pick up again. Next week I'll be teaching day and night as well, but I won't have to do that again for a while. It will feel like I'm part-time when I go back to teaching just during the day!
The training last week in Tampa was definitely the best training I had ever attended in my 10 years of computer work. The instructor was from Belguim and was extremely knowledgeable and interactive. We all had plenty of time to ask our own specific questions, which really made the training interesting. At night, as I posted before, most of us would go out to dinner together and just talk geek speak like the IBM commercials you see. It was such a great time of networking with other trainers.
Samuel is doing much better this week! He's pretty much back to normal now. He was extremely lethargic when I got home; didn't each much, didn't want to play, just downright depressed. After lots of belly rubs and time playing soccer, he's back to his old butt waggin self (wags hit butt cause he doesn't have a tail).
Well, hope you are all having a great week and have big plans for the weekend. Wendy and I are going to go see Hide and Seek tonight - can't get enough of horror movies :)
Monday, January 17, 2005
SQL Server 2005 TPrep
This week I'm in Tampa, Fl, attending a Trainer Prep course for SQL Server 2005. Great group of people and a pretty good class so far. We all went out for suppah tonight at a place called Rockaway Grill in Clearwater. Great little dive of a place with an awesome piece of steak.
What an exciting group of geeks.
Friday, January 07, 2005
Personal Update
Since I haven't posted in a while and now have reason to ... I thought I would do the same as everyone else and give a blurb on what I've been up to since high school.
I'll start with college :) As most of you know, I graduated from PCC with a BS in Computer Science, whadda geek. The summer of 1995 was AWESOME! On one of my many waterskiing trips that summer, I met up with a camp director who was looking for a computer instructor. After talking with him, he was also looking for an experienced waterskier who could teach competition level skiing to campers. Well, what a perfect fit that was. AND - the camp was an all girls camp. This was the most amazing camp I had ever seen - shocked it was in Maine. They had professional size water slides, olympic size pool, 8 tennis courts with tennis pros from Florida, gymnastics with the Russian olympic coach instructing, photography, rops courses, equestrian, acting, radio and video broadcasting, computer programming (me), competition waterskiing and so much more. I loved it!
Through that job, I met a programmer who recommended me for a job in Lewiston. A company called FISC that handled financial services for over 60 banks in Maine. I was the network and database administrator there for almost 5 years. Learned alot but it was a very high pressure job. Before I got burned out, I found a job at VTEC in Portland. They are a Microsoft Learning Solutions Provider. I've been there almost 5 years and have achieve several levels of certification along the way - enjoying every minute of it. I split my time between teaching Access, SQL Server, Crystal Reports, Visio, Visual Basic .NET and working as a contract developer for several of our clients. Through VTEC, I've worked at Irving, Sappi, Anthem, LL Bean, State of Maine and several other companies. It's something different everyday and I really do believe I have the perfect job. It does require lots of studying, to stay up with the latest greatest, but I love technology, so that's fine with me.
Once I moved to Lewiston for my first job, I started attending Auburn Baptist Church, where I met my beautiful wife Wendy, the pastor's daughter (we all know how they can be). We married October 4, 1997 and are expecting our first son this April :) Me as a parent?? Wow, THAT ought to be interesting.
As I've mentioned on Friends Cafe we have an Australian Shepherd - who's pictures you can see on this site. We also have 3 guinea pigs - had six but they are getting old and have started dying off.
Well, I think that pretty much sums up the past 10 years. Questions?
I'll start with college :) As most of you know, I graduated from PCC with a BS in Computer Science, whadda geek. The summer of 1995 was AWESOME! On one of my many waterskiing trips that summer, I met up with a camp director who was looking for a computer instructor. After talking with him, he was also looking for an experienced waterskier who could teach competition level skiing to campers. Well, what a perfect fit that was. AND - the camp was an all girls camp. This was the most amazing camp I had ever seen - shocked it was in Maine. They had professional size water slides, olympic size pool, 8 tennis courts with tennis pros from Florida, gymnastics with the Russian olympic coach instructing, photography, rops courses, equestrian, acting, radio and video broadcasting, computer programming (me), competition waterskiing and so much more. I loved it!
Through that job, I met a programmer who recommended me for a job in Lewiston. A company called FISC that handled financial services for over 60 banks in Maine. I was the network and database administrator there for almost 5 years. Learned alot but it was a very high pressure job. Before I got burned out, I found a job at VTEC in Portland. They are a Microsoft Learning Solutions Provider. I've been there almost 5 years and have achieve several levels of certification along the way - enjoying every minute of it. I split my time between teaching Access, SQL Server, Crystal Reports, Visio, Visual Basic .NET and working as a contract developer for several of our clients. Through VTEC, I've worked at Irving, Sappi, Anthem, LL Bean, State of Maine and several other companies. It's something different everyday and I really do believe I have the perfect job. It does require lots of studying, to stay up with the latest greatest, but I love technology, so that's fine with me.
Once I moved to Lewiston for my first job, I started attending Auburn Baptist Church, where I met my beautiful wife Wendy, the pastor's daughter (we all know how they can be). We married October 4, 1997 and are expecting our first son this April :) Me as a parent?? Wow, THAT ought to be interesting.
As I've mentioned on Friends Cafe we have an Australian Shepherd - who's pictures you can see on this site. We also have 3 guinea pigs - had six but they are getting old and have started dying off.
Well, I think that pretty much sums up the past 10 years. Questions?
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