I have finally finished a working and fairly stable version of PHP guestMap. This is a web based application that allows people that visit your site, to click on a map of the world, and insert their information, and place a "marker" on your map.With the boom of blogging, I believe this will be a huge hit and will quickly take off. It utilizes one of Google's open source API's to display a zoomable map ofthe world.Once I have completed a better working version, I will... [more]

Today was my court date for the ticket I received on July 17, 2005 for "Driving the wrong way on a divided lane highway" which is known as G.S. 20-146 in North Carolina.I got the ticket making a left hand turn into a parking lot after getting a little lost. I will upload pictures of the intersection later. At my first court appearance(where you just tell a DA what you plan to do about the ticket) I told them I wanted to dispute it. The DA told me to be in court today at... [more]

This morning I had my first court date about my traffic ticket. I found out it is considered a moving violation. It carries 4 points on my driving record and 2 points on my insurance record. This is only 1 point below the highest rated moving violations, which include passing a stopped school bus and speeding in excess of 20+ mph over the speed limit.So I get to court and there are about 100 other people there for traffic court. This DA stands up and says that we can either try... [more]

I went to the police department yesterday to get some more information about the ticket. They didn't really know much information about it and told me to call the Clerk of Courts about the fines and such. I will be calling them later this afternoon. The driver-side rear Gabriel shock mounting bracket broke again on the Jeep. I was pulling out of the driveway and could feel that it was really wobblie. I got out to check and sure enough... [more]

This is the ground breaking post on my new website. I will be using this website mainly to keep track of different parts of my life(work included). I do a lot of programming and server development so I will be adding a projects section soon. I will post walkthoughs and code snippets in that section once I get it going.I have traffic court coming up on Friday(August 26th). In July, I received a ticket for "Driving the wrong way on a divided lane highway" G.S. 20-146(3). I was making... [more]