I don’t usually ask for money. It pains me to do this. It also pains me to miss Red Dress Run for the second year running. So I’m asking for you help, I’m currently not employed as I am a full time student without any significant degrees or certifications (working on that) so this is the hopefully the only time I’ll do this.

Why do I want to do this?

Last November I grew out a mustache for cancer research. This August I want to support breast cancer research. And also humiliate myself at the same time. I should have planned better for this but a series of events have caught me off guard and now I realized, it’s this weekend and I’m currently in debt with no chance of making enough money in time.

What will you get in return?

Pictures, videos, blog posts, tweets, and my undying love. And also I’ll probably be able to pay you back when I’m employed.

Why should you give money to me?

Because this will probably be the only time I will willingly wear a dress and you know you want to see it. More importantly the registration fee supports breast cancer research. If you think about it, I bet you know someone affected by this, why not contribute now and laugh at my expense? It’s a win win!

What will the money be used for?

$60 for registration, $40 for gas to get me to and from Lafayette. I’ll take care of everything else.

Thanks friends!

Mike Baldwin

I met a few people at the Acadiana Open Source meeting the other night and one of the guys recommended I check out this site: http://drupaltherapy.com

They have a lot of great resources that I haven’t even begun to scratch the surface of. Of course Google is also an amazing tool for research and information gathering. I can’t forget to mention Kris Wotipka and Adam Melancon who have been incredibly helpful in getting the server online, much props guys.

What else? Still learning Visual Basic, and a bit of general computer troubleshooting in school. AT&T should be shipping me my DSL modem very soon (ie Tomorrow!) so I’ll have internet at the house again…That’s all for now, if I think of anything else I’ll edit the post.

Today was CampFiber here in LFT, in short I think it was a success and I really hope to see more events like it in the near future. It almost inspired me to become a developer but I think I’d be showing up a little late to the party with little to offer. I trust the local brains to do what’s right for the community. If it looks like they’re not going in the direction they should be I’d step in but I doubt it.

To see Terry Huval conversing with local developers about potential uses of the fiber network is pretty inspiring to me. You don’t see that kind of thing normally. Certainly Verizon would never send their CEO and members of the team to some town in South Louisiana to talk about settop boxes, fiber rollout, etc. So that in itself was pretty cool. It was also cool to see developers share their applications and talk about the industry as it exists now and will be in the future.

Didn’t really meet too many new people, a couple on twitter but I never got as far as to saying Hello. Had to jet out early, work and such, but very inspirational nonetheless, props to Geoff Daily, Abacus, and LUS for putting it on.

I started to write about Cafe Culture a couple weeks ago, but I haven’t been inspired to finish it.

School starts tomorrow, work has been going well, I’ve been doing a lot more work in Linux on MySQL, PHP, and other web technologies. I’m currently alpha testing PHPMotion (youtube clone) on the server right now. FFMPEG is giving me some problems so uploading of videos isn’t working too well. It’s also not loading all of the images correctly so I’ll have to work on that this week.

Edit: I started this post much earlier than when I’m posting it, so now it’s like sunday evening thoughts…So overall life is good, can’t complain, just working and now starting school again. Anywho I’ll update this again later…