Muckhead's Chronicle

Flu Shot ? ?

This year my doctor insisted I have my now "mandatory for Diabetics" flu and pneumonia shots. So I went along with it, what the heck, what can it hurt. Well I have heard of this from many people, but it has now happened to me too. I usually don't get bad colds or flu. I have had the odd bug, sure, but only get the flu every 5 years or so, and I never get much more than a sniffle or a light cough.

Can you say pounds of "lung butter”! !

I mean I have been coughing, for days, and had a fever, the entire flu thing! Which brings a question to mind that the doctor laughed at, but I really think has some merit? Does the flu shot give you immunity to the three viruses the Canadian Health whatever guesses at and immunizes you against, but lower immunity to other flu’s? Seems that way, I really don’t think I am going to get it next year. I mean my kids bring home all sorts of stuff and usually it bounces off me.

Finally it is ready

It is finally to the point that I was satisfied to put my site up for TyMar Software , my software company. Please if you have any spare time (for those of you out there that do), let me know of anything that is out of place. I will be adding some more PERL scripts for comments and tech-support requests; I just put email links up for now. The SEP people wanted to see something done so it is done. I can do the little things over the weekend. Also the Pay Pal link is set up but my accounts won’t be approved for 2-3 days (like Monday or something)

If you want to you can download the first product and check it out, again if there are any problems I would rather hear it from friends than someone half way around the world. Also if you send me an email I will give out reg codes. I am open to anything to make it better.

Thanks, and I respect your honest opinions.

Death in the Family

I am sad to announce there has been a death in the family. Jack has been in the family for almost 5 years, and passed away almost unnoticed today. Jack of course was a Jack Dempsey or Cichlasoma octofasciatum, a member of the Cichlid family of tropical fish. He was a very aggressive fish,(hence the name Jack Dempsey), and became our only fish after eating everything else in the tank. At death I would say he was at least 8 inches long and a good 3 pounds min.

I'd like to say he had a good life, we regularly treated him to his favorite food (other fish), and kept his tank in good condition, although I believe my recent neglect due to my work was probably the reason for his demise. Sorry Jack.

May his life beyond be filled with feeder fish!

WISE by Far

I have to hand it to WISE for their incredible technical support. I have bee working on the installer, not a huge process but came up with some issues with ddl's that could not be registered by the installer. The error thrown was a 1904 and from the Windows SDK that is exactly what it is, the dll can't be registered.

SO, I filled out my entitled web support form and submitted it online and then it indicated 2-3 days turnaround for the incident. Well I call down there, and I get the tech that is at that moment sending me the fix. Like this is about 10 minutes after I called. I have to hand it to Annette at WISE. She stayed online to ensure that this was indeed the fix for the problem and made sure I was happy happy before hanging up. Now that is great customer support.

Least to say I have already sent them letter indicating how well she handled my case, I am IMPRESSED !

The good thing too, I can move on, which is what I am now going to do...

I Just Had To

I was checking out some of my usual haunts, and noticed this picture, and I had to do a double take. Does this not look like Wim? Sorry Wim no harm intended and I am sure you could post some awful pictures of someone or animal that I may look like, but this picture has some merit.

What do you all think?

A Small Oversight

It is important that when you release an update or enhancement to a product and the documentation for that product has changed that you also include the latest version of the documentation. A Small oversight on my part, heck I am not ashamed of it, I may even bring a smile to some of your faces. After all I am human, and this is recoverable, because I have not released anything.

So the plan is to release my first product InMan Inventory Transaction Manager mid to end next week. Then the following week the UpdateGuru, with the newly added ability to FULLY update ALL the files!!

Other than that, things are looking good; I am working on the installer license agreement and graphics today, the website this weekend and early next week. If you have any good mojo send it my way over the next week! ! Please ! !

Up With The Birds

Well I am up early this morning, it is DAMN cold in my office! Damn cold! I will not be falling asleep anytime soon!

Almost There

Almost there as far as getting it released, still much work to be done on my first product. All I can say is "Feature creep can kill". I have so much more as far as features to be added. I will be adding some immediately, as they had planned to be there on release, but some will have to be saved for the next version. I have already received requests for my next product so I have to get working on that pronto.

Just letting everyone know that I am alive and kicking.