I've been absentee from Toto Network for a few days.
SPENDING SIX HOURS monitoring and maintaining a WEBSITE I OPENED UP WITHOUT SUGGESTION from anybody---I did it AFTER a suggestion, but my sister DID NOT ASK me to do it.

I did it on my own....because okay-the school needs the word that we're doing an alumni association deal now. MYSPACE is the best tool for that.

So....having been paid to sit in front of computers for QUITE A FWE YEARS, I jumped on it, figuring SEVENTEEN YEARS OF ONLINE EXPERIENCE would be a boon to my former fellow classmates and give them a place to hang online.

BEFORE the Association gets rollin'.
TWENTY FIVE YEARS worth of GRADUATING CLASSES this is.
I put up a background at Myspace, changed CODE IN THE 'ABOUT ME' ---tweaking javacript so the page would lay right.

CHANGED HEXADECIMAL COLOUR CODES to make school colours LOOK DECENT on a monitor. TRUE GOLD needs a MUSTARD hue. RTF 111 talkin'.
MASS COMMUNICATIONS CLASS talkin' there.

What'd she tell me to do?
Change the background.
I guess some people are IDIOTS when it comes to abstract art.

I had to explain to people with better eyes than MINE what the backgroud was!!!!!!!

Changed it-but COPYRIGHTED the change and she'll have to invade my imageshack account to GET THAT at all.

today SHE TOLD ME SHE DIDN'T WANT ME ON THE PAGE EVERY DAY ADDING STUFF. i THOUGHT, "ok, moron.....you are my sister but you don't know jack S*** about web geekin' it....you ain't got the chops."
SHE HAS NOT ONCE coded Javacript that I'm aware of. I HATE JAVA...it's a pain in the @$$.

i'M AN html BABE MYSELF. kUDOS TO Chainsaw for CODING JEFF'S LINKS IN HTML. THAT TOOK WORK.

I am getting BEYOND SICK of bustin' my @$$ and GIVING MY BEST and having people SPIT IN MY FACE. I put up THE ONE IMAGE I HAVE from my high school band days that MEANT ANYTHING....faded TWNETY YEAR OLD 3X5 IMAGE THAT SHE THINKS SHE CAN FIX WITH A SCANNER.

GREEN CAST ON THE 3X5 DUE TO THE FLURESCENTS AND CREAM-COLOURED WALLS WE PLAYED IN the night I got the Sousa Award.

AND MY SISTER DELETED THAT.
I JUMPED HER.

i TOLD HER tonight that I'm at Myspace on that page to ensure TOM doesn't allow some advertisement to pop up bearing an embedded Trojan.

The MINUTE that site gets cratered??? She won't have TIME toget it back up....not with a 50 hour a week job and 2 month old.
YOU WOULD THINK somebody would respect what you used to do for a living.

Guess not.

My Dad remided me tonight tha he's walked off jobs due to clients trying to tell him how DO WHAT THEY PAY HIM FOR.
If I "let here the website" like HE told me....and it goes down?
FIRST PERSON SHE'LL CALL IS ME.

Watch it.
I told him that. She can run eight million dollar MRI magnets but she knows ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about chasing down hackers----calling INTERPOL because some idiot from RUSSIA cratered a site you maintained...or that went University Wide...... I've done it.
I'ev helped people track folks down across SIX TIMES ZONES.

INTERPOL?
A former boss had WORDS with those guys....and I sat back LAUGHING AT 'EM AS HE DID SO.

wHEN YOU'VE kicked $2 million worth of IBM equipment across a threshold, set it down adn it RUNS LIKE A TOP? I'd think you know a LITTLE BIT ----A MINUTE AMOUNT OF STUFF about being careful in computer circles.

The minute the alumni website catches a cold....she'll come runnin, "fix it".

Guess what?
"Nope.....got isick of being jerked around----fix it yourself."
And I'll LAUGH IN HER FACE all the way to my drum room.