My Recent Activity from Flickr, Twitter, and elsewhere
Blogging is so passe
Good thing I never got into it.
As I wrote in a previous post, I’ve been planning on moving joshmoody.com away from a blog and instead make it an aggregation of the social networking sites I actually use.
That finally happened this week. On the spur of the moment one night, I decided to update the OS on my Linux web server from an ancient version of CentOS to the latest and greatest Ubuntu. I REALLY like Ubuntu… it’s by far the easiest Linux distro to set up and maintain I’ve ever used. After the upgrade, I decided to go ahead use the programming I’d been working on for my new front page.
I wrote an aggregator in PHP that takes new items from the public RSS feeds from my Twitter, Flickr, and Photobucket accounts and shoves them in a database. Then I can easily display those items on my website in the order in which they were posted.
I still have a little work to do on this, but it’s functional enough to use. Not like anyone will actually read it any way 
http://joshmoody.com
http://joshmoody.com/blog/2010/03/12/blogging-is-so-passe/
From Josh Moody about 3 hours ago
New blog post: Blogging is so passé http://joshmoody.com/blog/2010/03/12/blogging-is-so-passe/
http://twitter.com/joshmoody/statuses/10359884644
From Twitter / joshmoody about 3 hours ago
Spent the weekend searching online ancestry documents and scanning copies of birth/death/marriage certs. It's fun, in a boring sort of way.
http://twitter.com/joshmoody/statuses/10158434513
From Twitter / joshmoody about 4 days ago
It seems my family had something better to do in the summer of 1870 than talk to the census taker! Alfred Moody, who were you?! #ancestry
http://twitter.com/joshmoody/statuses/10144871094
From Twitter / joshmoody about 4 days ago
At the Dentist http://twitpic.com/167h3w
http://twitter.com/joshmoody/statuses/9875737530
From Twitter / joshmoody about 10 days ago
Pete Jones
jgmoody posted a photo
Pete Jones - petejones2.jpg
From jgmoody's Photobucket media about 11 days ago
Paul Jones
jgmoody posted a photo
Paul Jones - PAUL.jpg
From jgmoody's Photobucket media about 11 days ago
Alfred Moody
jgmoody posted a photo
Alfred Moody - alfred_moody.jpg
From jgmoody's Photobucket media about 11 days ago
William Thomas and Alice M Moody
jgmoody posted a photo
William Thomas and Alice M Moody - WilliamThomasandAliceMMoody-Jan8196.jpg
Jan 8, 1964 in Mena, AR
From jgmoody's Photobucket media about 11 days ago
William Thomas and Alice M Moody (Back)
jgmoody posted a photo
William Thomas and Alice M Moody (Back) - WilliamThomasandAliceMMoody-Jan8-1.jpg
Jan 8, 1964 in Mena, AR
From jgmoody's Photobucket media about 11 days ago
Broke a crown while eating breakfast this morning and my Dentist is closed on Fridays.
http://twitter.com/joshmoody/statuses/9681522355
From Twitter / joshmoody about 14 days ago
Breakfast at IHOP with the developers! Yum! http://twitpic.com/15fgvw
http://twitter.com/joshmoody/statuses/9678500971
From Twitter / joshmoody about 14 days ago
Another In-Place Editor, a jQuery Plugin by Dave Hauenstein
http://davehauenstein.com/code/jquery-edit-in-place/example/
From Delicious/jgmoody about 14 days ago
30 Amazingly Creative Social Bookmarks Icon Sets - Speckyboy Design Magazine
http://speckyboy.com/2009/01/26/30-amazingly-creative-social-bookmarks-icon-sets/
From Delicious/jgmoody about 15 days ago
Why didn't they see this coming?http://twitter.com/KARK4News/status/9592276448
http://twitter.com/joshmoody/statuses/9601552105
From Twitter / joshmoody about 15 days ago
Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos augmented-reality maps | Video on TED.com
http://www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera.html
From Delicious/jgmoody about 21 days ago
Wishing I could filter my Facebook news feed with regexes. A Firefox plugin? A good start: s/(.*)(farmville|mafia|gift|quiz|aquarium)(.*)/
http://twitter.com/joshmoody/statuses/9211567897
From Twitter / joshmoody about 23 days ago
Converting our old Windows XP desktop to a VMware image using Fusion's Migration Agent.
http://twitter.com/joshmoody/statuses/9041390500
From Twitter / joshmoody about 27 days ago
@abby_sims Bummer, hope tomorrow goes better!
http://twitter.com/joshmoody/statuses/9040917420
From Twitter / joshmoody about 27 days ago
Just got automated phone call from Conway Public Schools. No school Wednesday. Roads are still yucky in Conway with little melt off.
http://twitter.com/joshmoody/statuses/8869566307
From Twitter / joshmoody about 1 month ago
Snow ice cream!
http://twitter.com/joshmoody/statuses/8863069325
From Twitter / joshmoody about 1 month ago
Gonna take a break from working and play with the kiddos in the snow for a while. Don't get this chance very often in Arkansas...
http://twitter.com/joshmoody/statuses/8859760115
From Twitter / joshmoody about 1 month ago
@pulrich Glad he gave up, would've been a yucky trip!
http://twitter.com/joshmoody/statuses/8822602985
From Twitter / joshmoody about 1 month ago
@pulrich Yeah, it took about 1.5 hours, but I made it! Thanks for checking! Road conditions worsened quickly this morning!
http://twitter.com/joshmoody/statuses/8822125920
From Twitter / joshmoody about 1 month ago
10-15 inches of snowfall in Conway?! http://bit.ly/aX9pfD
http://twitter.com/joshmoody/statuses/8821710213
From Twitter / joshmoody about 1 month ago
Questioning my decision to drive to work today. HEAVY snowfall in downtown Little Rock. Getting here? Easy. Getting home? We'll see!
http://twitter.com/joshmoody/statuses/8816263841
From Twitter / joshmoody about 1 month ago
Braved the snow for the Conway -> Little Rock commute. The broadway bridge was kinda slushy, everything else mostly wet. #lrtraffic
http://twitter.com/joshmoody/statuses/8809150121
From Twitter / joshmoody about 1 month ago
There's about 1.5 inches of wet, fluffy snow in Conway, and it's still coming down!
http://twitter.com/joshmoody/statuses/8802066775
From Twitter / joshmoody about 1 month ago
Picking up my $10 Super Supreme at @pizzahut
http://twitter.com/joshmoody/statuses/8787034874
From Twitter / joshmoody about 1 month ago
At Rachel's basketball game. She's catching on to the game, and most importantly, finally paying attention!
http://twitter.com/joshmoody/statuses/8727785593
From Twitter / joshmoody about 1 month ago
Looking forward to a date with my Wife this evening!
http://twitter.com/joshmoody/statuses/8648534428
From Twitter / joshmoody about 1 month ago
I-40 from Conway is terrible this morning! 70 minutes to Morgan! #stuckintraffic
http://twitter.com/joshmoody/statuses/8588635354
From Twitter / joshmoody about 1 month ago
It just started sleeting in Conway! At the very least, I'll probably work from home tomorrow. With luck, State Offices will be closed!
http://twitter.com/joshmoody/statuses/8355851865
From Twitter / joshmoody about 1 month ago
Historic Bridges of the U.S. | Arkansas Coverage Map
From Delicious/jgmoody 3 months ago
The Old Mill
Josh Moody posted a photo:
The Old Mill in North Little Rock was completed in 1933 and is featured in the opening scenes of "Gone With The Wind". The structure is a re-creation of an an 1880's water-powered grist mill and was built to appear abadoned.
See www.northlittlerock.org/entries.aspx?id=233§ion=1... for more information.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jgmoody/4108690230/
From Uploads from Josh Moody 4 months ago
The Old Mill
Josh Moody posted a photo:
The Old Mill in North Little Rock was completed in 1933 and is featured in the opening scenes of "Gone With The Wind". The structure is a re-creation of an an 1880's water-powered grist mill and was built to appear abadoned.
See www.northlittlerock.org/entries.aspx?id=233§ion=1... for more information.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jgmoody/4108683728/
From Uploads from Josh Moody 4 months ago
The Old Mill
Josh Moody posted a photo:
The Old Mill in North Little Rock was completed in 1933 and is featured in the opening scenes of "Gone With The Wind". The structure is a re-creation of an an 1880's water-powered grist mill and was built to appear abadoned.
See www.northlittlerock.org/entries.aspx?id=233§ion=1... for more information.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jgmoody/4107915341/
From Uploads from Josh Moody 4 months ago
The Old Mill
Josh Moody posted a photo:
The Old Mill in North Little Rock was completed in 1933 and is featured in the opening scenes of "Gone With The Wind". The structure is a re-creation of an an 1880's water-powered grist mill and was built to appear abadoned.
See www.northlittlerock.org/entries.aspx?id=233§ion=1... for more information.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jgmoody/4107911583/
From Uploads from Josh Moody 4 months ago
The Old Mill
Josh Moody posted a photo:
The Old Mill in North Little Rock was completed in 1933 and is featured in the opening scenes of "Gone With The Wind". The structure is a re-creation of an an 1880's water-powered grist mill and was built to appear abadoned.
See www.northlittlerock.org/entries.aspx?id=233§ion=1... for more information.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jgmoody/4108672862/
From Uploads from Josh Moody 4 months ago
The Old Mill
Josh Moody posted a photo:
The Old Mill in North Little Rock was completed in 1933 and is featured in the opening scenes of "Gone With The Wind". The structure is a re-creation of an an 1880's water-powered grist mill and was built to appear abadoned.
See www.northlittlerock.org/entries.aspx?id=233§ion=1... for more information.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jgmoody/4108669806/
From Uploads from Josh Moody 4 months ago
The Old Mill
Josh Moody posted a photo:
The Old Mill in North Little Rock was completed in 1933 and is featured in the opening scenes of "Gone With The Wind". The structure is a re-creation of an an 1880's water-powered grist mill and was built to appear abadoned.
See www.northlittlerock.org/entries.aspx?id=233§ion=1... for more information.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jgmoody/4107901783/
From Uploads from Josh Moody 4 months ago
The Old Mill
Josh Moody posted a photo:
The Old Mill in North Little Rock was completed in 1933 and is featured in the opening scenes of "Gone With The Wind". The structure is a re-creation of an an 1880's water-powered grist mill and was built to appear abadoned.
See www.northlittlerock.org/entries.aspx?id=233§ion=1... for more information.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jgmoody/4108663558/
From Uploads from Josh Moody 4 months ago
The Old Mill
Josh Moody posted a photo:
The Old Mill in North Little Rock was completed in 1933 and is featured in the opening scenes of "Gone With The Wind". The structure is a re-creation of an an 1880's water-powered grist mill and was built to appear abadoned.
See www.northlittlerock.org/entries.aspx?id=233§ion=1... for more information.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jgmoody/4107895777/
From Uploads from Josh Moody 4 months ago
Old Springfield Bridge
Josh Moody posted a photo:
This abandoned iron bridge was built in 1874 and spans Cadron Creek near the Conway-Faulkner County line.
See bridgehunter.com/ar/faulkner/cadron/ for more information.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jgmoody/4107878849/
From Uploads from Josh Moody 4 months ago
Old Springfield Bridge
Josh Moody posted a photo:
This abandoned iron bridge was built in 1874 and spans Cadron Creek near the Conway-Faulkner County line.
See bridgehunter.com/ar/faulkner/cadron/ for more information.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jgmoody/4107876839/
From Uploads from Josh Moody 4 months ago
Old Springfield Bridge
Josh Moody posted a photo:
This abandoned iron bridge was built in 1874 and spans Cadron Creek near the Conway-Faulkner County line.
See bridgehunter.com/ar/faulkner/cadron/ for more information.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jgmoody/4107874057/
From Uploads from Josh Moody 4 months ago
Old Springfield Bridge
Josh Moody posted a photo:
This abandoned iron bridge was built in 1874 and spans Cadron Creek near the Conway-Faulkner County line.
See bridgehunter.com/ar/faulkner/cadron/ for more information.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jgmoody/4108636288/
From Uploads from Josh Moody 4 months ago
Old Springfield Bridge
Josh Moody posted a photo:
This abandoned iron bridge was built in 1874 and spans Cadron Creek near the Conway-Faulkner County line.
See bridgehunter.com/ar/faulkner/cadron/ for more information.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jgmoody/4108633948/
From Uploads from Josh Moody 4 months ago
Old Springfield Bridge
Josh Moody posted a photo:
This abandoned iron bridge was built in 1874 and spans Cadron Creek near the Conway-Faulkner County line.
See bridgehunter.com/ar/faulkner/cadron/ for more information.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jgmoody/4108631114/
From Uploads from Josh Moody 4 months ago
Collins Creek II
Josh Moody posted a photo:
"Collins Creek" "Heber Springs", "water" "long exposure" "tokina 12-24 f/4"
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jgmoody/4108034122/
From Uploads from Josh Moody 4 months ago
Collins Creek II
Josh Moody posted a photo:
"Collins Creek" "Heber Springs", "water" "long exposure" "tokina 12-24 f/4"
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jgmoody/4107264589/
From Uploads from Josh Moody 4 months ago
Collins Creek II
Josh Moody posted a photo:
This was my second expedition to Heber Springs to visit Collins Creek. Was hoping to catch some fall colors this time, but I was a couple weeks too late. Still, it's a joy to shoot in such a beautiful location!
I was pleased to meet another photographer when I arrived at the creek - Crooked Hill
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jgmoody/4107899422/
From Uploads from Josh Moody 4 months ago
Collins Creek II
Josh Moody posted a photo:
This was my second expedition to Heber Springs to visit Collins Creek. Was hoping to catch some fall colors this time, but I was a couple weeks too late. Still, it's a joy to shoot in such a beautiful location!
I was pleased to meet another photographer when I arrived at the creek - Crooked Hill
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jgmoody/4107886328/
From Uploads from Josh Moody 4 months ago
Collins Creek II
Josh Moody posted a photo:
This was my second expedition to Heber Springs to visit Collins Creek. Was hoping to catch some fall colors this time, but I was a couple weeks too late. Still, it's a joy to shoot in such a beautiful location!
I was pleased to meet another photographer when I arrived at the creek - Crooked Hill
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jgmoody/4107115899/
From Uploads from Josh Moody 4 months ago
Geolocation and Online Fraud Prevention from MaxMind
From Delicious/jgmoody 6 months ago
Love Story Sound Bite
http://www.entertonement.com/clips/pdckflcclm--Love-Story
From Delicious/jgmoody 6 months ago
Introduction to ACH
Definitions and transaction flows for the ACH network
http://www.achnetwork.com/introtoach.html
From Delicious/jgmoody 6 months ago
Speedtest.net - The Global Broadband Speed Test
From Delicious/jgmoody 6 months ago
Balsamiq Mockups Home | Balsamiq
Utility written for Adobe AIR for creating wireframe mockups of applications
http://www.balsamiq.com/products/mockups/
From Delicious/jgmoody 6 months ago
Check out this great instore deal from Staples on Uniden DECT 6.0 expandable corded/cordless phone w
From Delicious/jgmoody 6 months ago
TinyMCE - Home
This is the GUI editor that is bundled with Wordpress
http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/index.php
From Delicious/jgmoody 7 months ago
Why should I blog?
Why should I blog? I Tweet frequently, and my tweets auto-update my Facebook status for all my friends to see and make insulting comments about. By the time I can get a chance to write a full blog post about whatever it was I found interesting, it’s old news.
I’ve never been one to spend a lot of time blogging, but it’s been like 5 months since my last blog post. My content all goes to Twitter, Facebook, and Flickr these days. While it is much easier to post a quick note to Twitter than to write a full blog post, I believe there are still 2 reasons to blog.
1) Status updates may pass, but a blog post lasts forever. A Twitter/Facebook status update is perishable. Within hours (or even minutes), it’s irrelevant and lost in hundreds of status updates your friends see every day. If you are interested in your content hanging around awhile, write it on your blog.
2) Sometimes 140 characters just aren’t enough. I’m a wordy type of guy. Once I get started, it’s hard to shut me up. It takes a great deal of discipline for me to say what I need to within the 140 character limit imposed by Twitter.
Because I don’t blog very often, I’ve decided to change the focus of joshmoody.com away from blogging and toward the content that I’m actually posting regularly. Because I still may find the need to blog on occasion, I’m not going to completely remove the blog, but it’s going to shift to the background. In the next few weeks (hopefully), I’ll be replacing the front page of this site with something similar to friendfeed.com. I’m going to aggregate my recent Flickr photos, Tweets, and blog posts into a single stream.
I’m sure there are probably Wordpress plugins to do what I’m looking for… heck, I even wrote a similar WP plugin one time – but I don’t want to be tied to Wordpress. The security vulnerabilities inherent in a project like Wordpress concern me, and I’m not sure I’m going to keep using it. I’m going write something custom that I can later tie into whatever blogging platform I’m using. I was thinking about importing my friendfeed into this site, but I have a feeling friendfeed will be rollled into Facebook soon and may not continue to function as it does now.
I would like to start blogging a little more often – technical stuff like programming concepts, tips, and tricks. We’ll see how that goes.
http://joshmoody.com/blog/2009/08/20/why-should-i-blog/
From Josh Moody 7 months ago
Blueprint: A CSS Framework | Spend your time innovating, not replicating
From Delicious/jgmoody 7 months ago
Twitter conventions explained for Facebook users
For you non-Twitter folks on Facebook….
I’ve gotten a couple questions lately about conventions I sometimes use in my FB status updates. Here’s the story.
If you see a FB status update that contains #some_text, it’s most likely a Twitter user who has set up their FB status to auto-update from their Twitter updates.
The #some_text syntax (called a hashtag) specifies a topic for the Tweet. A “Tweet” is a status update, for those who don’t know Twitter lingo.
Example: “Kris Allen did really well tonight on #Idol”
This allows you to more easily use the search feature of Twitter to see what other people are saying about the topic in real-time. See http://twitter.com/search?q=%23idol for what people are saying about American Idol right now.
If you see a FB status update like “RT @SomeName Mary had a little lamb”, that is a Twitter user who is Re-Tweeting another user’s post. @SomeName is the original poster of the information.
Example: “RT @FOX16News Ark. launches Web site to track stimulus http://tinyurl.com/bnmamq”
This is the same concept as providing a citation in a research paper. It’s like saying: “I’m not the original source of this information, but want to share it with you and give credit to the original author”.
http://joshmoody.com/blog/2009/03/17/twitter-conventions-explained-for-facebook-users/
From Josh Moody 12 months ago
Award Winner
I’m pleased to announce that the newsroom application I wrote for the Governor’s office won the 2008 eC3 Excellence Award in the category “Innovation in the use of social networking to enhance citizen involvement in government”.
Gov. Mike Beebe’s Information Network of Arkansas encourages citizens to help craft a positive vision for their state. Arkansas.gov offers numerous online services and an e-newsroom with audio/video, podcasts, four different electronic newsletters, listservs and RSS feeds.
I actually wrote this application for Gov. Mike Huckabee, then updated it a bit when Gov. Beebe entered office last year. Then we did a major enhancement earlier this year to integrate with content from Picasa and YouTube. Thanks to this application, Governor Huckabee became only the 2nd Governor in the U.S. to have Video podcasts in iTunes!
Of three awards given by the eC3 (National Electronic Commerce Coordinating Council) this year, Arkansas won two! We also won the award for “Innovation in protecting the privacy and integrity of citizen information” for a write up in which my friend and co-worker David described the security initiatives we have implemented.
http://joshmoody.com/blog/2008/11/14/award-winner/
From Josh Moody about 1 year ago
Software Development Methodologies
I’ve been reading about Agile Software Development this evening. I’ve never really categorized my preferred style of development, but I’d say it closely resembles the Agile style.
Basically, Agile development involves short iterative cycles of development with frequent deliverables. There is minimal planning and the stakeholder is frequently consulted for feedback. The goal is to have a working release at the end of each development iteration with minimal bugs. The iteration is complete when it passes tests. Then it’s time for feedback and the next iteration of feature development. Working software is the primary measure of progress.
It seems that with the Agile development methodology, you are more likely to have a Mission Statement than a Project Plan. You are working toward an end goal, but the path may not be predictable.
I find this quite interesting. In my office, our Project Managers want to have project plans that boil down to: Development will begin on ??/??/???? and end on ??/??/???? and will take X hours. Testing will begin on ??/??/???? and end on ??/??/???? and will take X hours. Deployment will occur on ??/??/????. The end result will contain features 1a, 1b, 1c, 2a, 2b, 2c1, 2c2, 2c3, 2d.
This method of strict project planning isn’t all bad, but it isn’t very darn likely either. Crap happens. Features change. We learn something new. This is why I lean more toward the Agile development philosophy. It makes allowances for unexpected circumstances. Nay, it expects crap to happen.
I’ve worked on many different projects this year. A couple stand out as being particularly complex and high profile. The first one followed a strict project plan. No wiggle room.
“We must have the project finished on this date. Create a project plan that fits this end date, then make sure you hit the date, no matter what.”
So that’s what we did. The business owner started wanting changes almost immediately, but it was too late by then. We didn’t deliver anything for testing until just before the end of the project. There was no time to change/add functionality based on feedback from the stakeholder at the last moment. Had we made small deliverables all thru the development cycle, we could have flushed all of that stuff out before the due date. Instead, it was a single massive deliverable with no room for changes. The software worked as requested, but the business owner didn’t request everything that it needed to do. Now we’re faced with large sets of feature enhancements for an application that just went live in what was supposed to be it’s final form.
The second project had a looser project plan, but still a firm date. It was approached a little differently.
”Here are the goals of the application, and a simple flow chart. Here are the milestone deliverables.”
Instead of working strictly toward the end result, I developed iteratively with the end result always a distant thought. I delivered the first milestone within a few days. It didn’t do much, but it worked. All other functionality would derive from that. Over the next several weeks, I delivered more components of the application in iterations. Each iteration was a working application that was immediately ready for user testing and feedback. These quick iterations didn’t completely fulfill the goals of the project, but each got us closer. And each iteration kept the stakeholder involved and giving feedback. After completing a particular iteration, I discovered the project was done.
We shifted directions a couple times on this second project, but those direction changes evolved from our understanding of the project and requests from the stake holder, and contributed to a successful deployment without a slew of changes shortly thereafter. I attribute this to the fact that the application evolved during the development phase to be exactly what it needed to be.
http://joshmoody.com/blog/2008/09/15/software-development-methodologies/
From Josh Moody about 1 year ago
Test Data Generator
I frequently have the need to enter fake data when developing/testing an application. Things like names, addresses, credit cards, etc. To assist with this, I’ve been working on an application to easily produce test data.
Currently, it generates the following:
- Full Name (First, Middle, and Last. First and Middle names are for same gender, though the gender is randomly chosen)
- Address (Street Address, City, State, Zip, County)
- Phone Number
- Credit Card (Type, Number, Expiration)
- Bank Account (Bank Name, Account Type, Routing #, Account #)
- Date of Birth
- Driver’s License (Number, State, Expiration)
- SSN
- Email Address
- URL
- Company Name
It can generate any of the above items individually, or you can generate a “Person” with all of these data elements included. If generating a person, the email address will contain the person’s first name, with the domain matching the company’s name. The area code of the phone number will be correct for the City/State of the address. The State for the Driver’s License will also match the person’s state.
The credit card and banking numbers will also pass basic validation algorithms (luhn/mod10).
I should note that this is similar to what can be found at http://www.fakenamegenerator.com, which I discovered after I started working on this project. The difference is my solution is more robust, and can be used programmatically instead of having to visit the website.
Currently, this is only a basic PHP class that can be called to generate the data. The next step is to expose the methods as a Soap Web Service (so it can be used by any programming language). I’ll also build a GUI front-end that will allow download of the generated data in a delimited format.
When I originally wrote this, I intended to use it for work. However, I’ve written it completely from home, and I’d like to keep it for my own and license it under LGPL. I’ll still use it for work, but I want it to be “my” project and not my company’s. Of course, I remember something from the paperwork I signed when I started working here about my employer owning any thoughts I have during my employment. It is for this reason that I’ve tried really hard not to have any thoughts for the past 3.5 years.
I figure I’ve given them enough of my soul already. Surely they’ll let me keep this one small thing?
http://joshmoody.com/blog/2008/09/14/test-data-generator/
From Josh Moody about 1 year ago
Native iPhone Wordpress
Testing native wordpress application for iPhone.
http://joshmoody.com/blog/2008/07/24/native-iphone-wordpress/
From Josh Moody about 1 year ago
Smash and Grab
I decided to go for a walk late this evening. There’s a walking trail in town that I used to visit quite often, and I am trying to start walking more. When I do go walking, it’s frequently fairly late at night… it’s not uncommon for me to go at 9 or 10 PM. The trail is paved and has lights at regular intervals (though several are burned out), and there are usually several people out, even at this time of night.
When I first started going out there a little more than a year ago, I worried a bit about being out there alone at night. Not that I’m a scaredy cat or anything, but let’s face it: There are some not-so-nice people in this world. Not-so-nice people tend to lurk in the shadows. On this walking trail, there are plenty of shadows…
I got over it after a couple walks, and hadn’t worried about it since.
Tonight, I went out around 10 and walked 2 miles. Upon arriving back at my car 1/2 hour later, I opened the door and realized the passenger side window was missing. Well, I guess it wasn’t exactly missing. I knew exactly where it was: in thousands of pieces all over the interior of my car.
My center console was open, and had obviously been gone through. I had left my wallet in the console and, surprisingly, it was still there on top of the pile. My driver’s license, credit card, and $3 in cash were still there. I guess the wallet wasn’t worth messing with. I can’t tell that anything was stolen, luckily, I don’t usually keep valuables in my car. I didn’t even have my iPod adapter in car tonight.
Mine wasn’t the only car hit. While on the phone with the police, I noticed a Ford Expedition had 2 windows broken out, and it appeared to have been searched too. The driver of the Expedition didn’t show up before I left, but the police were going to wait on them so they could get a report from them too.
Shortly after the police arrived, we saw somebody shooting off fireworks just down the walking trail. Thinking it might be related, 2 police officers went to investigate – but came back empty-handed.
This isn’t my first time to be the victim of a vehicle-related crime. When I was 18, somebody stole my 1986 Monte Carlo from my then-girlfriend, now-wife’s driveway. I had stupidly left the keys in the ignition. The police found it several hours later, undamaged, and being driving by a 14 year-old who had already been caught stealing 2 or 3 other cars in town for joyrides. I think he spent the night in jail, but that was about it.
The thing is, they’ll never catch the person(s) who did this, and even if they do, there will be little-to-no punishment.
http://joshmoody.com/blog/2008/07/11/smash-and-grab/
From Josh Moody about 1 year ago
Salvation and Chicken Pox
Here’s an email my wife sent to some friends yesterday after talking about the plan of salvation with our 4-year-old:
Here is a sure fire way to know you child is not ready for the plan of salvation.
…I was explaining about sin and what sin is… that you can’t be good enough to get into heaven…that Christ died for our sins in our place…”…that He might bring us to God…” 1 Peter 3:18….God asks me to believe in him to take away my sin…
When I get to:
Believing is trusting what God did for me. When I believe that His death was for me, He gives me eternal life.And then I ask: Rachel what does God GIVE you if you believe that his death was for you?
Her quick and honest response: CHICKEN POX
I think she needs more time.
http://joshmoody.com/blog/2008/07/09/salvation-and-chicken-pox/
From Josh Moody about 1 year ago
Vacationâs Over
Vacation is over and I start back to work tomorrow. We didn’t go on a big vacation, but several small ones instead. The main thing is that I WASN’T WORKING!
Here’s the break-down of the week…
Monday:
As I wrote previously, we took the family to the Little Rock Zoo.
Tuesday:
We took the kids to the babysitter so we could have a date! We watched “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian”.
Wednesday:
We loaded up the mini-van and traveled to Mena to visit the folks.
Thursday:
Today was our 9th Wedding Anniversary! To celebrate, we left the kids with the Grandparents, and went to the Raspberry Manor Bed & Breakfast. This was the best part of the trip. We got to the B&B around 3PM, then sat on the deck or in the hammock until about 5. Then we took a walk on one of the numerous trails in the area before returning for dinner about 6:30. We had a fantastic steak dinner, and lounged for a couple hours before retiring for the evening.
Friday:
Had a nice breakfast of ham and stuffed french toast, then did nothing for a couple more hours before checking out at 11AM.
Later that day, my father-in-law and I went Geocaching around town before my Wife and kids left for Conway with her parents. My Wife & kids, her parents, and her brother & sister-in-law all spent the weekend Greer’s Ferry Lake, while I stayed in Mena to visit with my own parents.
Saturday:
I attended the Acorn Reunion with my Grandpa (he also attended Acorn High School). Acorn is such a small school that they have an “all alumni” reunion each year. This is the first one I’ve attended. Aside from one 8th grader who was probably there with a grandparent, I was by decades the youngest in attendance. Most attendees were in their 70’s and 80’s. It was nice to spend time with my Grandpa anyway. Afterwards, my Grandparents treated me to a BBQ lunch.
Sunday:
We grilled steaks at Dad’s house. My grandmother baked a chocolate cake (with home-made chocolate icing… yum) and made ice-cream.
Now, it’s late Sunday. I’m home again, I’m tired, and I’m going to bed!
http://joshmoody.com/blog/2008/06/15/vacations-over/
From Josh Moody about 1 year ago
LR Zoo
I’m on vacation this week, and we decided to take the family to the Little Rock Zoo this morning. It was getting hot by the time we left, but there was some nice cloud cover that kept it pretty comfortable while we were there.
This was Rachel’s 2nd visit to the zoo, and Levi’s 1st. I think Jamie and I had as much fun as the kiddos!
I just posted pictures to Flickr.
http://joshmoody.com/blog/2008/06/09/lr-zoo/
From Josh Moody about 1 year ago