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Now this is going to be very interesting… The Lost Tomb of Jesus…… and his family…

If this is true then the whole world is in for a shock… wouldn’t you say so? A documentary by the producer of Titanic is supposed to air on March 4th… I will be staying home Sunday night to watch it… As long as I don’t miss out on ROME… then again I could record one of the two shows… hmmm… I have a tough decision to make…

I have a presentation on leadership today… I chose Juan Pablo Duarte. I’m going to give my co-workers a little Dominican History.

Mission accomplished I guess… between the new additions to Blogs Dominicanos I also played with my own website this past weekend… up to this very minute I was still working on it since I never check the results in Windows IE. I almost always use Fire Fox now… The difference is incredible…

None of the work is XHTML verified yet… I think that would be the next step just to verify that it is correct… but then again that would mean that I would have to spend another 2 hours inserting and rearranging the code to spec… ummm… maybe one of these days…

Here is a snippet of the Magpie code used on the index page of the site. It displays the last entry of the blog that pinged the site… For the most part it uses the same coding as the other Magpie snippet I published a few days ago but this breaks it down to 1 entry, cleans the code of the feed, and rearanges it to what it displays on the index page…

$item = $rss->items[0];
$content = $item['atom_content'];
if ($content == “”)
{
$content = $item['description'];
}
if(strlen($content) > 500)
{
$content = substr($content, 0, 500) . ‘…’;
}
$content = strip_tags($content);
$posttitle = $item['title'];
if(strlen($posttitle) > 35)
{
$posttitle = substr($posttitle, 0, 35) . ‘…’;
}
echo “RSS Feed”;

Nothing out of this world but I figured why not… Readers want to see more content on the site and the only way to get that right now is by doing something like that… or redesign the site from scratch… I tried that but I haven’t gotten very far because of time constraints.

This past weekend was also a perfect weekend to relax. I didn’t feel well enough to head into work… I felt burned out and just non-productive in that type of atmosphere. There is a lot going on and I honestly didn’t feel like being there. Tomorrow starts off another week so hopefully it’ll be better then these last couple of weeks…

Well I’m already off to a bad start… I went to work at 12 got home at 9… 30 minute travel each way… maybe I’ll make it to work by 9 tomorrow… I have a few things to do that I’d rather get done before the weekend gets here. Inview… I think Cadbury Schweppes is just getting around to LED displays… We’ve had the display for a while but no one ever got around to programming it… It’s very similar to Prolite… but of course Inview is for Industrial applications not to mention it’s ability to communicate with PLC’s.

I also have a Leadership presentation to give at a training course I am enrolled in. CS Key 10. Quite interesting if you ask me. Starting with the food. Next it would be the psychological effect it has on you as a person. Trying to understand the meaning of being there no.1- other then the food… why your in there with this group of people in particular no. 2. – I’m an interpreter for one of the guys – thank you… and when did they realize that giving us the upper hand to give ourselves permission to think was “OK” – I often analyze the discussions we have throughout the course… they are practically saying it’s OK to give yourself the time, space and the tools to do your job… The course is well organized and it does open up our eyes to the obvious but being organized in a chaotic atmosphere is just the beginning.

Ah y por supuesto… a few of my Dominican Co-Workers out on the plant floor say I would make a nice living doing what I do in Dominican Republic… hehe… Allen Bradley is almost top of the line if not the leader of industrial PLC’s in the country. A few years from now I’m going to be working for Allen Bradley… and a few years after that I’m going to know their product so well I’ll want to move to Dominican Republic to live an easy life as a senior automation engineer… or maybe not… being a plant engineer may be nicer… It’s definitely something to think about tho.

One of these day I’ll find out what to do with myself… I haven’t spent as much time as I thought I would be spending re-designing the site… Pero nah… I’ll figure it out one of these days… after all I can’t let the Dominican Blogosphere die out… I feel like it’s an imaginary 200 lb backpack… It’s a heavy backpack but if I continue to carry it something will happen… At least that’s what I keep telling myself… I honestly need to dedicate more time to it.

Today I took time out to write back to my sister… That felt good. I haven’t really written to her since she left so I’m sure she’ll be happy to see the letter from me. It was also quite a day today… Snow, sleet, rain, snow… go figure… I called out and made the best of it here at home. I was literally under the weather.

My computer took a crap too! I got a virus from downloading Key Generators… That’ll be the last time I try that… I had to re-install Windows XP and Microsoft Office 2003… ISO’s do wonders… Luckily I got an external hardrive and I have majority of my files on there instead of my internal hard drives. Unfortunately I lost my emails and a few personal files… oh well… what can I do?

With that being said… I’m going to sit down this weekend with a planner and begin to plan my days/months out. I am getting slammed by things left and right… I think that you can say it’s overwhelming and it’s about to take a toll on me if I don’t get organized. For starters I am going to wake up at 7:00 AM… get to work by 8:30AM… back home by 6:00PM relax and eat between 6 and 7… Dinner at 7:30… Homework, Blog and Program between 7:30 PM and 9:30… depending on the day… Phone Calls in between the time I get home and 12:00 AM… between 9:30 and 12… I have to figure that out… maybe I’ll go to sleep early on some days… Now lets see how this works out…

Well not really… but it sure is funny how a little common sense helps you understand the way things develop…

Students use chat lingo in class