The First 48 Hours

And I feel a huge weight lifted off my shoulders. Having a new president is one thing, but having somebody in office that you can trust to make smart decisions based on facts and what NEEDS to be done, not what you believe to be right based on your “gut”.
The economy is in a free-fall. Shows just how tightly knit everything is related when it comes to the economy. Houses are built because people need jobs, so we start construction companies to make jobs. People buy houses and are given bad loans for their houses, that they can’t afford, or, they buy a house and are fired from their job so they can’t afford the house. House is forclosed upon.
Too many loans default, and all the loans which were sold off to the market and banks sour the market. More jobs lost. More lost money. Money that really wasn’t there in the first place.
It’s all numbers. Numbers being pushed around on paper. Money that never existed. So our phony economy based on phony paper goes down the drain, people start loosing jobs more and more. If this is a recession I’d hate to have seen what the Depression is like.
I’m just thinkkiing out loud and I”m sure none of this makes sense.
Short of it is, our new president has a hell of a lot of work cut out for him.
My advice? First thing to do to clear up a LOT of money? End this war that’s costing us billions a month to run and thousands of lives lost. Depends who you ask, but usually you hear the war is costing us 12 BILLION a month to run. By my math, we’re talking over 840 BILLION spent since the start, not including extra bumps here and there thanks to the Bush Admin’s blank checks. I also understand those numbers don’t include costs of contractors in the war. Leave it to America to outsource a war. So, end the war, and we start saving billions of dollars a month. That way, when some industry says “We need 24 billion to stay alive for a month, we don’t have to think so hard about it….. even though the answer should be a solid “no”.


Still a work in progress

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SPAM withstanding, I’m still working on the backend of the page here. Working to get a photo album / gallery put together. Trying to figure out some of the WordPress plugins. It’s a little confusing working with this stuff when you’re used to doing it all by hand. You’ll notice we’ve got our old logo up, replacing hte slightly metro-sexual one.

Things still to come, plugins for YouTube for video sharing, I know I want to have that. I want to play with sme Forum software, and WikiMedia stuff. Just as a development side. All for the purposes of deploying it in a new site called CavemanGarage. Look for it coming soon at CavemanGarage.com as well as other forum projects for the late MyRideForum for ClubMofo.

So, even though there seems to be very little going on at the front of the page, there’s a lot going on in the back, and in my brain for development purposes.


Canned SPAM?

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Installed a plugin to take care of the SPAM comment problems. Kind of like an Anti-Virus for SPAM. Keeps a database of known offenders, and doesn’t let them attack the database. Let’s see how that works.


SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM!

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Day one and we got our first spam hit. Great. Note to self, apply for spam guard plug-ins.


Welcome to the Jungle

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So in an attempt to back up some stuff on my old web page, I managed to kill a good deal of critical code and wrecked up the joint pretty handily. So, I decided it was a good opportunity to revamp. More to come in the future. Enjoy!