Ultimate SAP Training System – Computer Based Training Lessons:
by Timothy Singleton on Dec.26, 2009, under Business Opportunities
Being a Senior PC Technician, I am often asked how does one ‘get into computers?’ If I were to make a recommendation as to what path someone would want to get on in order to have a career in Information Technologies, you could do no better than to become a master of SAP. Why? Because everyone, especially many levels of government, are going to SAP to handle all their financials, ordering, paying bills, and doing payroll. The learning curve is steep, but that is why SAP professionals MAKE THE BIG BUCKS.
The folks at Frontier Entertainment have a package that can help speed you on your way to a good, solid, safe, and stable career in SAP. Rare and hard to find, SAP Professionals command very good salaries. Grab your future now.
Just as anybody who is good at their job knows, those who perform enjoy a level of stability and security in their job that others do not. Check out the Ultimate SAP Training System and let them help you work towards getting that job that will cover all you or you and your family needs.
Tim
This blog is going to undergo some serious changes…
by Timothy Singleton on Dec.01, 2009, under Bear's Book Blog
Okay…I have looked at EVERYTHING under the sun that promises to give one the ability to really make your Wordpress blog look just any old way you want it to look. Flexibility they promise. Customization that will AMAZE you, they claim.
I am tired of looking and, either their demos are crippled or their promised functionality is far removed from reality. I am not parting with my hard earned money until I can find something that lets me stretch and reshape boxes or pick something that does not look like 9 million other supposedly custom themes.
So, you changed a few colors. So? Big deal. I know some have some really cool customized Wordpress blogs that are awesome. I do not believe they came from some cookie cutter change a few buttons or the edges of boxes ’solution’ that costs several hours of my salary up to as much as I would care to part with.
I really am on enough learning curves without climbing on the PHP, CSS, and MySQL curves as well.
Anyone knows something that REALLY works and is REASONABLY priced, please, let me know.
-Tim
The Fourth Kind
by Timothy Singleton on Nov.11, 2009, under Current Movies, Fiction, News and current events
I just got back from seeing The Fourth Kind.
The creep factor is complete for several reasons, not the least of which is the premise that it is based on completely real events and that much of the video tape is real.
Do NOT take your children to see this movie. I am not trying to be cute, nor to lead you to see the movie. I am saying do not do it. The Fourth Kind is an excellent movie, but I do not suggest taking young kids to see it nor suggesting that those who are susceptible or have emotional problems or a history of such should go see this film.
Don’t believe I am serious? Not once during the film did I have an inclination to think how hot Milla was. Yeah, I thought that might do it.
Christians will know what they are viewing on screen, and it has nothing to do with aliens.
-Tim
Terminator: Sarah Conner Chronicles
by Timothy Singleton on Sep.29, 2009, under Bear's Book Blog
Just worked my way through Season 2 of Terminator: Sarah Conner Chronicles on DVD. It was just as outstanding this time around as it was the first. TSCC remains one of the finest series I have ever bothered to follow.
FOX still sucks for cancelling this show. I am still on a boycott of the rest of their shows because of it. FOX probably did me a favor, though, because I now watch less than three hours of TV a week, preferring to read, and actually participate in LIFE rather than leave ever deepening impressions in my LazyBoy.
Success!
by Timothy Singleton on Jul.06, 2009, under Tim's Fitness Fight
Finally, I have found a regime that works for me. It is called the Cyclic Ketogenic diet.
Being in my mid 40s, my metabolism is not what it used to be. That sucks. I have done my complaining about the unfairness of it all. Whatever. It just means I will be more entitled to be proud of my six pack than most. You are 20, born from skinny parents and have a six pack? So what? I earned mine. Yeah…when I get it. Still, I have dropped four notches in my new belt and that is significant. I have lost 30lbs solid pounds so far and have reduced the fat percentages by a full four points. What is the percentage now? Nonya bidness, LOL.
Here is the deal. You keep carbs below 40 grams a day for all but 36 hours a week. I choose to pick from 6AM Saturday morning to 6PM Saturday night. I workout four days a week. Mondays I do legs, Tuesdays I do back and biceps, Wednesdays I do chest, shoulders and triceps plus floor sweepers. On Fridays, I do the whole body, trying to burn the glycogen stores to zero, then turn on the carbs. Like I say, I am very please with the results so far. Before wheels up for the Philippines, I am going to have to buy all new pants if I keep going. Cool!
I hope to be back here in a month, and then seriously start scaring 32″ waist jeans soon.
Transformers – Rise of the Fallen
by Timothy Singleton on Jul.02, 2009, under News and current events
Well, let’s see, what can we say? My elders always used to say, “If you cannot say something nice, then do not say anything at all.” Sage advice, taken from the wisdom of years.
Then again, I did not listen to them then, either.
Tranformers promised to be a good movie from the previews. I mean, hey, is there anything much more hot for a fellow than Megan Fox in cutoff shorts sliding around on a bike? No.
Then there is that PG-13 rating.
The move plot was BAD. Stealing scenes from Species (the chick holding Shia Labeouf down in his dorm bed), Terminator: the Sarah Conner Chronicles (robots disguised as humans in order to kill important humans), and Star Wars (pick any episode you like, the creature critter hiding out in the rings of Saturn is nothing but a take off of the Sith and slapped with a thick code of malleable silicon); even the CGI was blurry (which may have been the theater, to be fair), Transformers – Rise of the Fallen fails to rise to anything like its predecessor.
What got me up and walking was the language. The stereotypes that tried way to hard to be clever, and the just plain BAD storyline were honestly stupid up to the point of my walking, but it was the language that had me moving to refund territory. Geez, I sound like the very reviewers I hate, don’t I? Well, this movie was just BAD and it was not the actors’ and actresses’ faults. The direction was BAD and so was the script.
To sum up, the language was bad enough for a PG-13 audience that I got up and walked out when the P word was used and I was sitting in a theater full of kids ranging from ages 4 and up. Sorry, and all due respect to my good friend who said to, “Yeah, but you are not 13,” I could not sit there and act as though this was appropriate. Profanity has become so instrinsic to everyday life that it was this use of the P word in this setting to make me aware of just how numb I have become to falling standards. Megan Fox, who was born PERFECT in every way, has decided her lips needed to be injected with collagen apparently. Still beautiful, her mouth appeared somewhat disfigured in this film. Why would she do that? More Hollywood insanity is all I can answer.
Pass on Transformers – Rise of the Fallen if you have not already wasted your money.
-Tim
Michael Jackson dies today at 50…
by Timothy Singleton on Jun.25, 2009, under Uncategorized
Michael Jackson was a troubled fellow for sure. I never figured out if he really had a skin disease or if there were other issues with regards to his more and more bizarre appearance over time. There were also questions about propriety in his interactions with kids on his compound. I only qualify it by asking the question of what kind of parent leaves their kid with a man known to have questions surrounding his interactions with kids in his care.
All that aside, the man was talented. Whatever he may have been guilty of, being of questionable music talent was not one them.
Michael Jackson was a musical genius in my opinion. His re-inventing himself every so few years will be missed by me.
-Tim
Odds and Ends
by Timothy Singleton on Jun.25, 2009, under Uncategorized
My current reading list is Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand and Facebook Marketing by Steven Holzner. Currently, I am in love with the character of Dagny and in admiration of Reardon. I can only work towards their determination.
I am also in the hunt for THE tome on CSS, php, and mySQL. There is no alternative to simply learning CSS if I wish to be in control of my website. Sucks, but there it is. “Ain’t nothin’ to it but to do it,” as the Turk used to say when I was down at the Correctional Academy in spring of ‘85.
CSS, or cascading style sheets, have certainly changed things since the day of static web pages back when I had my own ISP, the completely undeservedly unmourned SIS Online!, Inc. dba infosurge. We were running three servers, a Worldgroup 2.0 for DOS, a Novell file server, and a US Robotics Total Control Server with 64 integrated 56K modems and a T1 card in addition to the Cisco 2501 and all the Sportsters and Couriers we had added on as needed basis. infosurge was a BBS/ISP as many were during those days and we almost made it. I would sit in the basement with the lights out and in my boxers, LOL, or drawers as we say down here, fielding the tech support messages and phone calls from time to time while I watched the World Wide Web explode. Unless you have built something for yourself, you will not understand when I say I would sit down there and listen to the modems negotiate a connection and watch the red lights blink back and forth signaling traffic and it was a feeling of being high. I do not think it is an exaggeration to say I loved every piece of that equipment, as I put every piece in its place and made it work. Some Indian software house has the domain now, alas.
The books I have looked at so far on CSS, php, and mySQL assume an understanding of html on a level not many people have. It is possible I cannot get there from here, but most go elsewhere first. I suspect this may turn into another odyssey for me. Hopefully, it will turn into as much fun as learning servers and hardware from the ground up while trying to build a business.
Awesome commentary on current events
by Timothy Singleton on Jun.11, 2009, under News and current events
This is an awesome article for folks on all sides and of all stripes to read and ponder. I do not know yet if I agree with everything the author suggests, but I certainly plan to give some serious skullscratch time to his ideas.
Check it out here in Credit Free Economy.
Tim
Wheels up on August 26
by Timothy Singleton on Jun.10, 2009, under Uncategorized
I am going back to the Philippines on August 26th, stoked and cannot wait.
