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Every Monday I can't help but to think about that Career Builder commercial where everybody wakes up before sun rise to try to deflect the sun light. There is even one man who drags his mattress to the top of a hill to shield himself.

Is it possible that through out humanity the only thing we can all agree on is how bad Monday's suck?

Mike and I have made a great discovery via Google. I know, I know, you people like to knock Google like you knock Microsoft and Walmart.

However, I think that the Google solutions are great! Here's my example.

Instead of using an Outlook Exchange server to manage our inner office emails we can just switch to Google's Gmail which will allow you to have customized @ extensions to match your current domain or company name.

With the allowance of 6gb's per users (limited to 100) you can not beat that for free!

Even better, instead of relying on Outlook calendar's or third party networking calender programs, you can do this all free, networked, and web-based:

http://calendar.safeamerica.org

You can also share documents via the Google Docs:

http://docs.google.com/a/safeamerica.org

Even better, for inner office you can use the web-based chat client Google includes for free. This is perfect for communicating important information with out interrupting a meeting, or getting off your lazy ass!

The last thing I'd like to share is the ability for every client on our network to have their own personal webspace with blogs, pictures, etc. It's a great little addition that most people seem to over look.

Anyways, we'll see where it takes us. Hopefully, Google will treat the people right.

I need to get back to work over here though, Retrospect seems to be neglecting a couple of our people on the backup cycle. Damn Windows firewall.

Labels: business, reviews, work

It's been a long time since I've updated. Sorry, and or my bad.

I rolled my ankle two weeks ago playing basketball with some ballers @ GA Tech. I went up for the rebound along with some other person who landed on my back, cause my ankle to pretty much just like snap. I had to get an x-ray to verify it wasn't broken, though it wasn't, the doctor said it was pretty damn close. Now, it's a lot better, I can move fast, but not run yet. Thus no basketball, but I've managed to be able to move around enough to shoot a little, ya know?

Work as been going well. The basketball league ended, and I'm kinda sad. I miss the kids already, it kinda is weird how you kinda take them is as real friends... Hmm... Another one is starting up next week, but I miss THOSE kids, they were sooooo fun!

So I'm now the primary I.T. person at my other job. It's pretty awesome, I like having the irresponsibility and trust to take care of business. It's awesome though, I've been learning a lot that I can apply to school and future professional environments.

I also started back up the new semester at school. I'm only taking two classes this semester because there were so many screw-ups when I initially registered. It's all good though, the classes are very cool and it works actually well with my schedule now.

The Prelude is running kinda shitty, but could be worse. I realized I have a nail in one of my tires from the construction at the Y. Adding to that, my A/C belt is falling apart and the pulley needs to be adjusted. I mean it shouldn't be more than two hundred bucks tops, I know nothing big, but ofcourse, it does suck. Let's break it down

New tires (mounted, balanced etc): $84.88
Alignment afterwards: $49.99 (with coupon)
A/C Belt: $20.00
Pulley (worse case) $94.99

Sub total (rounding up):
Worse Case: $250.00 (plus tax)
As expected: $155.00 (plus tax)

Yeah, so it's all good. I'm expecting my $600.00 tax refund check from good ol' W here in June. I guess all you can do is play it by ear.

I'll try to update more often, leave some love or you can contact me via e-mail at the following adress, josh@joshz.net

Until then, take care, be safe, andhave fun.

Labels: life, prelude, random, school