Unfortunately I have been stuck, for lack of a more subtle word, in Louisiana.  This state has provided me with a 6 percent increase in taxes, corrupt city and state officials and a complete and utter lack of education.  When the motto of the local NFL team is “Who Dat” it more so represents the local and statewide education dilemma.

I come from Texas originally so I understand education differs from area to area but I have yet to find a whole lot of “smarts” in the state.  This isn’t an insult to the people but a complete slap in the face of the state government and complete lack of care for the local schools.  When the government would rather support drive by alcohol stands than creating a positive and encouraging learning environment for kids, you know there’s a problem.

So I pray this place is a pit stop on the road to my next destination…I really hope and pray I don’t get stuck here!

It’s a sad day when you come to the realization that your life sucks and you are a dork! Today was not that day however this week led me to feel like I have no life (thus i’m blogging now), have few friends and the life I do have is filled with work and being a hermit in my apartment.

I barely even have the the will to write a blog post on one of many sites anymore and the posts I do write lack the vigour and determination of the old days.

But I have an idea…I am going to quit my job and become a professional happy-drug tester.  Give me some ridalinand put me in front of a computer…i’ll blog for days!

In early 2005 I began my journey with WordPress and WordPress MU.  The struggle of bugs, errors, documentation and owners.  But today I stand back and look at the masterpiece that is WordPress.

There is no other blogging software that can even dream of comparing to WordPress; they can merely dream to taste the crumbs of the WordPress success.  I remember seeing, years ago, pictures of Matt’s first servers on a pallet.  Though just a few servers, it’s amazing to look at where the amazing creation of few is today.  With a farm of servers, a host of talented and gifted developers and an owner that has stepped from the role of developer to one of leader to a blogging revolution.  Without Matt, WordPress would be nowhere close to the empire it is today.  And the greatest aspect of WordPress is the fact that it’s free and added upon by thousands with plugins, themes and coding.

So today I say with the coming election, let’s make a WordPress day.  I doubt anyone could ever fully guage the success of WordPress but with the millions of writers and authors to be, the stories could easily tell an endless tale.

It’s easy to see the world by a paycheck, a bill, or a 9 to 5 job.  But really outside of the 9 to 5 is an amazing and awesome world that baffles the mind and creates a suffocating euphoria.  This drug is avoided and forgotten by millions each and every day and this blissful escape grows further and further away from us.

In the matter of 5 months, my life has escaped me by 1year.  A month seems like a week and a week like a day.  Beyond the TV, internet and junk food is the world that has slowed to a crawl and grows with the grass.  Do you remember those days when all you had to worry about was what time to be home for dinner after a long day of playing.  Or perhaps those camping trips with the overwhelming smell of camp fires, hot dogs and smores.  The refreshing and re-creating dew of the morning on the tent and ground.

Don’t forget about what truly matters!

It seems the blog for Ric of Opendomain has gone private.  Makes a person wonder if that was his doing or someone else…hmmmm.

I smell some funk in the air

A while back it was posted that Matt of the stolen domain name “WordPress.com” decided to lie, cheat, and steal his way to getting his form of justice. It’s ironic of the similarity to Robin Hood.

Well, the lack of conscience may be not the wiest choice with new admendments recently placed into law which governs the internet and more specificaaly websites. I spoke to a few lawyer friends of mine and they said Ric at Opendomain.org (the guy that was dooped by the Matt) would easily be able to win in court if he so chose to take it to that level.

On a personal note, it’s really sad when a man freely loans out such a popular and in-high-demand domain name for free and gets screwed over as he was. I believe that what goes around comes around.

We all like free!  Getting something for nothing is very sweet.

I took part in the Opendomain project as i got webloog.com.

 WordPress.com is apart of that site as well and got this domain for free thanks to Ric Johnson.  The only agreement i had to make was to put a link on the bottom of each page to the opendomain project…easy enough!  Well WordPress.com isn’t working within that parameter and is not palcing that link there.

I think it’s really sad that Matt and the admin staff would choose to violate such an easy agreement and become “unreachable” to Ric and his numerous efforts to contact him on this.

If you want to read more about this i suggest visiting Ric’s wordpress.com site http://free.wordpress.com/2005/10/04/free/ 

³⁸And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from his love. Death can’t, and life can’t. The angels can’t, and the demons can’t. Our fears for today, our worries about tomorrow, and even the powers of hell can’t keep God’s love away. ³⁹Whether we are high above the sky or in the deepest ocean, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.

After a few hours of editing code i’ve managed to create a file manager program for WordPress SU.  After some testing and porting i’ll make it public for MU when the code is ready.  So far so good