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Hello.
I am sorry for not keeping up with this, I have been busy getting ready for school. I have been up there a lot lately. It is a half hour drive, it's getting pretty framiliar. The first time I went up, Dad took me up because he had work in Bloomsburg. I walked the campus for 40 minutes, trying to get feel for it. Then I went up to buy a textbook wendsday. Finally I was up there yesterday. I printed the orientation schedule up, and it said that I had to pick up my id at 6pm. I went up and there was a very VERY long line. I went up to someone in charge and told them that I already had the orientation feature that they were doing at my previous school. She said to just go in in pick up my car. So I cut the line and walked to the front and asked for my ID. They said they didn't have transfer student's ID cards, that I could pick it up across campus the first day of class. So I wasted over and hour and 5 dollars in gas. I'm looking forward - sort of - to the first day of class. I'm still a bit nervous. I was never nervous at Central Penn, maybe because it was small, I knew the professors before my first day, and parking was a piece of cake. Parking here at bloomsburg is awful. I intend to park about 3 miles from the campus and take the School's shuttle bus to the campus.
Tomorrow is my last saturday that I work at lowes, from then on I will only work tues & thurs 6am - 4:30 pm - 20 hours a week compared to my current 30. It has been the track record of the weekend shift to give a person the hardest job when they know they are leaving. I didn't tell them until last week for that reason. Human Resources knew, but my immediate supervisor didn't.
I have been working on my program MP3 splitter. I have been promoting it, and it has really taken off. I have had over 14,000 downloads. I am working on some new features, I'd like to get a bigger user base. It's just a pride thing I guess because I don't charge for the software, I give it away, but I just like to see how many peopl use it.

I would appreciate prayer going into this school. As my friend's dad put it: "I have never seen so many woman dressing like street walkers" It is bad there, I hope to make good friends, along with the ones that I already have from church that go there.
I guess that's It, I'll try to do better, but it may be harder when school starts...we'll see.

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Hello all,

I just got back from the library, their internet had been non-functional for a few days. After about four hours of work it is working. I broke down and called tech support. I never would have guessed the solution, but it worked.
A friend from church who has been taking nurse aid classed was impressed with the amount of paper work they do for the patients, keeping track of their vitals. He asked me to write a PDA program that did the same thing. I did. This program allows the nurse(aide) to record the patients vitals, and review them later, send them to a server for data entry, or beam them to another nurse's PDA. There is probably no commercial value in this since selling such important software to hospitals or nursing homes would be pretty hard for a on man opperation like me. so why do I even bother? I knew from the beginning that nothing would come of it, but I have learned a lot about PDA programming. Enough so that I think I will purchase the software I used to create this program. The Standard version is $25, the Pro is $50, and an add on component that will be neccesary for desktop syncronization will be another $30. So for around $100 I can start creating quality PDA software. :)
I think I'm going to make a homework tracking program.....and sell it to other students. :)

New paper

In adult sunday school (7/23) we talked about Jesus's parable of the Pharisee and the Publican. It was very interesting to see how the two compared. All day monday I mulled it over in my head and came up with the idea for a paper based on the two. I'll post a link for it as soon as I finish it.

Got my School bill today...

I got mail from bloomsburg U. today. It was my bill for this semester. After my financial aid was applied I was left with $33 credited to my account...I owe NOTHING this semester! That will be nice because I will be going to 20 hours of work instead of my current 30. Now I just have to worry about my regular bills, food and gas. :) I still have to buy books. I was told by a girl at church who attends bloom that she usually pays around $300 per semester for books. I'm hoping to do what I did and Central Penn and by my books online insted of the book store. I'm hoping that I can save a lot of money that way.
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I need another program to write. I'm done with the ones for SermonAudio and Shepherd Press, now I need another program to write sooooo.......please feel free to leave a comment and let me know if there is a program that you think would benefit YOU or others. Don't be afraid to ask, if it is something that I feel is far beyond my skills I will have to decline. So if there is something that you wish your computer would do for you that it doesn't do now, let me know. :)
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We made a lean-to in the "Boy's Club" I have been helping with at church. The boys liked it, but it is so hard to keep their attention, they seem to thrive on being disruptive and loud.

Bored

I'm sitting here at church. We have been staying here all day since it is such a long drive up and back. I DID get a nap, so thats good, but it's been pretty dull.

We had a great sermon today. Pastor Tripp has been going through Isaiah, and he went through the 5 or so verses before chapter 53. He really stressed the sacrifice that was required be Jesus and willingness to stand the beatings in order to accomplish redemption for those he loved. He also touched on another important aspect, one that Dad has been preaching about when he gets the opportunity. That is that since before creation God has been working out the plan of the crucifiction. Often we (or I have in the past) assume the God got so fed up with our sin that Jesus decided to die for us. However this can not be in light of the promise in Genesis to Adam and Abraham.

New/older computer

Dad and I were talking yesterday about if I had considered going into some PDA (Personal Data Assistiant, like Palm Pilots and Pocket PCs) programming. Since they are becoming popular, the ability to write software for them might be a very valuable asset. Then I began to think how I needed to do a lot more Windows Programming. Hence I bought a older computer off of ebay:
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1.13 ghz
256 Ram
20 Gb Hard Drive
Windows XP
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I plan on hooking it up with a KVM (keyboard, video, Mouse, It lets you used two computers with the same keyboard, screen and mouse.) This way I can program in windows, hit a key and be back in my Linux desktop.
I hope to be able to write software faster this way because before I had to use my laptop, and that was hard to sit at for hours. Now I can sit at my desktop with a DEDICATED Development Enviroment (ok, I pulled that out of thin air...) at my fingertips! :)

-Paulie

IT WORKS!!!

The guy wrote me this morning and said the program I wrote for him worked! He was able to use it to upload his Church's sermon to sermonAudio.com!!
Perhaps I have said before that I have been asking God to show me how to best use my skills for His use...it appears He is showing me! I got this done, and I now I have to see if the Program I wrote for our Church's publishing company is suitable. I'd like to keep doing this.
Hence, I put up this webpage.
Comments are welcome about how it looks. :) I also found a website that allows Christian Programmers to get in touch with a business, Christian or not, to write software. I looked at it but most of the stuff is out of my skill level.
Speaking of skill level, I have been trying to increase what knowledge I have by buying books! When I have the money I'll buy a few (well ok, few is relative, I once bought 9 books at once from ebay but only because they were sold together, I DID use them all, they are very handy. ;) )
I now have probably around 30-50 books, but there are many yet that I'd like to get, a lot of subjects that I know nothing about. :)

Well, It's about 8:45, so I'll be getting stuff around for tomorrow!
-Paulie --yeah, see previous post, it don't bother me no more....as long as it aint "Polly" :)