Going to be doing some housekeeping here over the next little bit, but for now I’m just giving WordPress 3.x a spin. Looks nice!
Someone sent the following to me today. Spoke to my heart. How often do we think we are acing it in life but at the expense of those dearest to us?
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Can I borrow $25?
A man came home from work late, tired and irritated, to find his 5 year old son waiting for him.
SON: Daddy, may I ask you a question?
DAD: Yeah, sure, what is it?
SON: Daddy, how much money do you make an hour?
DAD: That’s none of your business. Why do you ask such a thing?
SON: I just want to know, please tell me, how much do you make an hour?
DAD: ‘If you must know, I make $50 an hour.’
SON: ‘Oh,’ the little boy replied, with his head down.
SON: ‘Daddy, may I please borrow $25?’
The father was furious, ‘If the only reason you asked that is so you can borrow some money to buy a silly toy or some other nonsense, then you march yourself straight to your room and go to bed. Think about why you are being so selfish. I don’t work hard everyday for such childish frivolities.’ The little boy quietly went to his room and shut the door.
The man sat down and started to get even angrier about the little boy’s questions. How dare he ask such questions only to get some money? After about an hour or so, the man had calmed down, and started to think. Maybe there was something he really needed to buy with that $25.00 and he really didn’t ask for money very often.
The man went to the door of the little boy’s room and opened the door. ‘Are you asleep, son?’ He asked. ‘No daddy, I’m awake,’ replied the boy. ‘I’ve been thinking, maybe I was too hard on you earlier’ said the man. ‘It’s been a long day and I took out my aggravation on you. Here’s the $25 you asked for.’
The little boy sat straight up, smiling. ‘Oh, thank you daddy!’ He yelled. Then, reaching under his pillow he pulled out some crumpled up bills. The man saw that the boy already had money, started to get angry again. The little boy slowly counted out his money, and then looked up at his father. ‘Why do you want more money if you already have some?’ the father grumbled. Because I didn’t have enough, but now I do,’ the little boy replied. ‘Daddy, I have $50 now. Can I buy an hour of your time? Please come home early tomorrow. I would like to have dinner with you.’
The father was crushed. He put his arms around his little son, and he begged for his forgiveness. It’s just a short reminder to all of you working so hard in life. We should not let time slip through our fingers without having spent some time with those who really matter to us, those close to our hearts.
Is it really worth ranting on Twitter, Facebook, blogs and cyberspace in general when a company shafts you? We’ve seen it happen on social networks especially in regards to AT&T, and rightfully so. But how often do those companies listen to their publics?
I recently experienced some severe down time with Layeredtech and Tweeted and ranted about it. Eventually after a month after the incident I got 1 month free hosting. A token amount for the amount of downtime they caused me.
Now I’ve got some criticism to level at ING Direct (a post coming soon), but I’m left thinking how much does it actually avail to “smear” a company publicly. I think in many ways it is important because it takes time to clean up a image online. And as much as companies don’t like it, if you search “ING Direct reviews” and you see some crummy reviews cropping up, you lose business.
Companies should know that when they shaft their publics, they deserve to be shafted in return. The one thing companies should do is engage their publics directly and in the initiated forum, instead of going quiet and retreating into their shells. This will show folks that they are actually sincere about improving their performance and services. By not engaging your publics, you only make yourself look worse.
So I’ve done the unthinkable. I have Windows 7 64-bit as my primary OS and Ubuntu Linux booting up in a VM. My reason for switching was business related and had nothing to do with OS preference. My Reasons:
- I’m going to begin deploying some Exchange/Sharepoint solutions on our network and wanted to see how it really affects our end users.
- I need to do some page layout over the next months and Linux does not have a good solution for this.
So my Windows 7 OS runs my mail and all tasks and I have Linux now solely as my development center. I’m working on a write up of the difficulties moving from Linux back to Windows 7 as well as the positives.
The one real nasty aspect of moving to Windows 7 is my bluetooth doesn’t work. I’ve tried everything outside of installing the 30-day trial Toshiba BT Stack to no avail. I can’t get any of my bluetooth devices to properly connect. I’m runing on an Asus G1S so if anyone has ideas of how to get bluetooth running properly. LMK.
And a rant against ASUS, for a laptop that came with Windows Vista, and was for gamers/high end users it seems logical to release Windows 7 drivers!!!
If you want to remove an extension from the directory with FreePBX, simply edit the file: /var/www/html/admin/modules/core/agi-bin/directory
On line 479, replace:
if (!empty($box["name"])) {
with:
if (!empty($box["name"]) && (substr($box["name"],1)!="(") && (substr($box["name"],-1) != ")")) {
Now you can simply set the Display Name of the extension you want removed from the directory to be enclosed in parentheses such as “(John Doe)”.