Clear The Dust! So I was a week late on my GST return ... and now I am probably in Shit with CRA. Oh Well. April was the shits, and I'm exhausted still. I'll take the penalty. Amidst the whole quarter of paperwork, I always end up "house cleaning" because I really need to sort through every piece of paper lying around my place, and also need office things (stamps, pens, envelopes etc.).

During the clean I moved the business cheque book back to it place with the corporate documents, and I found my screw driver. Not any screw driver ... my awesome ratchet really wicked screw driver I thought I had lost. YIPPEE!.

I also realied my apt is SOOOOOOOOOOO dusty. I really need to get to the spring cleaning (well finish the spring cleaning), and do all the gross jobs like clean along the edges, and really make the place sparkle.

Dishes 95%
Laundry 50%
GST 100%
Bathroom -50% :(
Floors 0%
Car 0%
Clearing the dust 0%
Throwing out the pack rat garbage 50%

So I've made a dent ... I knew it was a multi day project. :D

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  NUSOAP, Tech Groups & NHL So I've been investigating web services in PHP. I've worked with them before, and now I have a need for them again. I need two separate system to communicate. I could have taken the shortcut and just written some PHP to directly access the other DB, but it is my plan that eventually the systems will not be on the same shared server ... what will I do then. I may as well byte (lol) the bullet and do it right now.

I downloaded and installed nusoap for PHP, and it's quite simple to use. The debugging advice is really useful as well from the nusoap site. It was actually very simple to get a simple WS up and running. So I have found that going carefully, and slowly changing small parts as I move along is the best approach. So I will have a functioning EFT web service. YAY!

I was bumbling around the Internet today. I went to a local tech groups website. I have been on and off involved somewhat over the years. Most lately I have had 0 involvement because I have no real use for the group. The community is mostly junior / intermediate in technical expertise, and I found myself never benefiting from anything, but always providing aid. I just don't have the time to "teach" right now, and they just irked me in general. I know of others who I associate with who feel the same. Sad really.

Well I checked out a recent blog entry around Kubuntu. I had wanted to post a couple of relevant comments to help someone out, and also clarify a statement regarding the LTS cycle for Dapper. Well I can't because I don't have an account. No problem ... let's create one. So I go through the process of creating an account. I wait for quite some length of time before receiving the credential email. Probably due to my grey listing ... not their fault really. So I go to log in and realize I still can't. I get a "password incorrect" error. After some investigation, I find that my account is created, but not "approved" ... so I still can't post some advice.

I find that entirely disheartening. I mean ... all I wanted to do was give some advice to someone who was having problems. I had to jump through hoops to set it up so I could, and I still have to wait for "approval" of my account. Things like this are exactly why I removed myself from them in the first place. They just don't get it. Instead of growing the community, and letting knowledgeable people with the expertise to share it, they have closed themselves off. I mean ... screw them now. There is no way, even when my account is approved that I am going to waste my time going back there and making any posts. I mean ... it's annoying that a group who is based upon the ideology of "sharing" that they think it's a good idea to restrict under their kingdom of who should be allowed to share.

So the Cannucks lost, Sens won, Sabres won, and Det is up 3-2. I'm pretty dead in my pool thanks to Vancouver. Oh well. I was in the money last 2 years. Time to let someone else make good in the cash.  ¶ 4:29:00 PM 0 comments