My friend, Annette Schutt, just sent me this. What a great way to live life.

George Carlin’s Views on Aging

Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get old is when we’re kids? If you’re less than 10 years old, you’re so excited about aging that you think in fractions.

‘How old are you?’ ‘I’m four and a half!’ You’re never thirty-six and a half. You’re four and a half, going on five! That’s the key.

You get into your teens, now they can’t hold you back. You jump to the next number, or even a few ahead.

‘How old are you?’ ‘I’m gonna be 16!’ You could be 13, but hey, you’re gonna be 16! And then the greatest day of your life! You become 21. Even the words sound like a ceremony. YOU BECOME 21. YESSSS!!!

But then you turn 30. Oooohh, what happened there? Makes you sound like bad milk! He TURNED; we had to throw him out. There’s no fun now, you’re Just a sour-dumpling. What’s wrong? What’s changed?

You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, then you’re PUSHING 40. Whoa! Put on the brakes, it’s all slipping away. Before you know it, you REACH 50, and your dreams are gone…

But! wait!! ! You MAKE it to 60. You didn’t think you would!

So you BECOME 21, TURN 30, PUSH 40, REACH 50, and make it to 60.

You’ve built up so much speed that you HIT 70! After that, it’s a day-by-day thing; you HIT Wednesday!

You get into your 80’s, and every day is a complete cycle; you HIT lunch; you TURN 4:30; you REACH bedtime. And it doesn’t end there. Into the 90s, you start going backwards; ‘I Was JUST 92.’

Then a strange thing happens. If you make it over 100, you become a little kid again. ‘I’m 100 and a half!’
May you all make it to a healthy 100 and a half!!

HOW TO STAY YOUNG
1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. Let the doctors worry about them. That is why you pay them.

2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.

3.Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever, even ham radio. Never let the brain idle. ‘An idle mind is the devil’s workshop.’ And the devil’s family name is Alzheimer’s.

4. Enjoy the simple things.

5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.

6. The tears happen.. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person, who is with us our entire life, is ourselves Be ALIVE while you are alive.

7. Surround yourself with what you love , whether it’s family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge.

8. Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.

9. Don’t take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, even to the next county; to a foreign country, but NOT to where the guilt is.

10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.
AND, ALWAYS REMEMBER:
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
And, if you don’t send this to at least 8 people – who cares? But do share this with someone. We all need to live life to its fullest each day!!

Life’s journey is not to
arrive at the grave safely
in a well preserved body,
but rather to skid in sideways,
totally used up and worn out, shouting
‘…man, what a ride!’

We’re adding some structure to our development environment and seeking guidance from those who may have done so before.

We’ve been limping along with no real version control for the last six months and since we expect to add another programmer in the next six months. Thought that now would be the best time to put in place stricter version control software and/or procedures.

I’m not a huge fan of SVN and other version control systems. They are a bit too complex so were thinking of using this structure. Your input is appreciated.

Currently we have two ColdFusion developers each with their own self managed, local CF development environment. We have one centralized testing server and one production server. The production server has 10+ CF sites and a few PHP sites on it. Currently we have a background batch process that compares every site on the production server and the testing server. It runs several times a day. This process updates a database with all of the differences between the two servers. This allows reports to quickly and easily be run from this database with out having to physically compare the files whenever a report is run.

Each developer only has access to their local machine as well as the testing machine. They can run the same exact process as described above against their development machine and the testing machine. Only our lead developer has access to the production machine.

To place code into production, we have a shell script that copies the file from the testing machine to the production machine. This process also removes the prior difference from the database as the two machines are in sync now. This process also stores who made the modification and all previous version of the code so that it can be rolled back if needed. This is the only process that is allowed to update the production machine. Individual developers do not have access to the production machine.

From what I’ve read and played with, other forms of version control require more management and place significant requirements on the programmers. Does my approach seem simple yet accomplishes the exact same thing as more ridged VC systems.

What do you say in the first post on your 3rd or 4th blog.  Started off on WordPress, moved to another app, moved back to WP hosted somewhere else, then finally moved to my own server.  Hopefully won’t be moving it again.  Finally on Linux which is soooo much easier than Windows.   I used to be such a Microsoft fan.  Now that we’re running on Linux, not so much a Windows fan.  Hmmm.   Everything is just so much easier on Linux.  That’s another post.

Anywhy, the blog’s back and it has my favorite theme on it.