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Check out the new photos page for some interesting photos from the official white house photo stream.

In an effort to save money, I have moved the site from a windows server 2003 host to a linux host.  The move has been completed, however as you can see a few things were not ported over (the site theme for one).  I will address these shortly.

So my job hunt ended successfully, for which I am very thankful. I am working for Catalina Marketing in St. Petersburg, Florida. Why should you care? Because I am sure it is the answer to an obscure question you probably asked yourself in the past. You know all those cards on your keyring that stores scan and that give you discounts? They do that kind of stuff. I am working in IT and I guess you could say that so far I am happy with the company and position. So, if you are in the market for a job, have heart, and keep trying. Branch out, take a chance on a job that may not be exactly what you are looking for, you might be surprised what you find. Remember, its kind of like looking for that person to spend your life with, it’s not always about how good you are, its about whether you and the company fit together. I am hoping you all find something that makes you happy!

So next year’s NFL schedule has been released.  Below you can find the information on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 2009 NFL schedule.  I’ll update this post as I have time to analyze it, but it looks like a very tough road to hoe this year, competition-wise.   The NFC East and AFC east, combined with the NFC south represent the most competitive three divisions in football, hands down.  Coach Morris has his work cut out for him.  Also apparent is that almost all games are 1:00 pm starts, and our division play is densely packed at the end of the season.  And, we once again have a favorable bye week.  Week 1 is September 13th, 2009.

Week 1  Dallas at Tampa
Week 2  Tampa at Buffalo
Week 3  NY Giants at Tampa
Week 4  Tampa at Washington
Week 5  Tampa at Philadelphia
Week 6  Carolina at Tampa
Week 7  New England at Tampa
Week 8  Bye
Week 9  Green Bay at Tampa
Week 10  Tampa at Miami
Week 11  New Orleans at Tampa
Week 12  Tampa at Atlanta
Week 13  Tampa at Carolina
Week 14  NY Jets at Tampa
Week 15  Tampa at Seattle
Week 16  Tampa at New Orleans
Week 17  Atlanta at Tampa

So, I saw this article at Yahoo! news and I couldn’t resist doing some quick gimping.  For those who don’t know what an Apple storefront looks like:

And Microsoft’s version (It’s subtle):

I watched the Olympics, and I watched his one-one hundreth of a second victory, and I watched him make history shortly afterward.  He made news again recently, but this time for alleged pot use, backed up by from what I understand some incriminating photos.  First, some disclosure:  I am twenty eight, a sometimes drinker, may or may not have ever used pot, college graduate who thinks this entire thing is just ridiculous.  How ridiculous do I consider this?  About on the same level of allowing people to ingest a substance known to impair decision making (without consequence), and then putting penalties in place for when bad decisions happen shortly afterwards.

What is the difference between inhaling one substance and ingesting another?  In this case, it is that one is legal and one is not.  For some, this may be sufficient support to rule Micheal Phelps a fallen hero.  Fortunately, our justice system is sane and is built upon challenging unjust laws.  So, to me, a generally law abiding american citizen, the Micheal Phelps story simply demonstrates that the law he broke is on the face of it unjust.  He has not done anything to tarnish his image in my eyes.  Show me proof of him doping, and then I will cry and scream with you and lament the falling down of yet another american sports icon.