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Cornerstones of Trust 2012 Website updates

Things are really starting to pick up on the Cornerstones of Trust web development front. The conference is on Wednesday, June 6th in Foster City. 

The website is https://www.cornerstonesoftrust.com/
There is a lot more going on on the backend as well.

Another new website layout

I think it's getting to be about time for another layout change on this website.

I've been doing a fair amount of design work on the Cornerstones of Trust website and will be meeting with the San Juaqine Sheriffs Association next month to do some volunteer work on their website.

For my own website, I kind of want to have a media/news style where you get headers and story previews on the main page along with media without having to scroll.

As another friend put it, I want to get more information "Above the fold".

Strange finding on my AWS Server

This morning when I logged into my workstation, I found that one of my putty sessions to my AWS server had gone "inactive", I looked at the content of what was on the screen and I saw:

Broadcast message from root@ip-10-166-###-###
        (unknown) at 10:08 ...

The system is going down for reboot NOW!
Control-Alt-Delete pressed

Electric Vehicles are not "Green"

 

 

 

 

Electric Vehicles are not "Green"

Edward Frye

Western Governors University

October 26, 2011


 

Electric Vehicles are not "Green"

Over the last several years there has been much advancement in the automotive industry around hybrid technology as well as electric vehicles (EVs). There is also a lot of hype in the media around being "Green" or environment friendly. However, research shows that the production and operation of a pure electric car is no better to the environment and produces roughly the same greenhouse gasses as a traditional petroleum powered passenger car; this is because the majority of electricity needed to power an electric car is produced by burning fossil fuels; transmission and storage of electricity for electric cars is inefficient; and the materials used to store electricity for these cars must be mined, refined and shipped before they can be turned into batteries.

Choosing a College Degree Program for Non-Academics

 

 

 

 

 

 

Choosing a College Degree Program for Non-Academics

and IT Professionals that don't "Pass Paper"

Edward Frye

Western Governors University


Blogging for Information Security

Martin McKeay has an article Write to learn, learn to progress where he talks about his history of blogging and how it has helped his career, this is a very good post with many good points. I've halfheartedly been blogging since 2004 and one thing I've realized is in order to be a good blogger and get "followers" you need to read other peoples blogs and contribute to ongoing "conversations".

Electric Vehicles are not "Green" (The movie)

This is a presentation I did for my "Language and Communication: Presentation". For my research project I wanted to determine, based on pollution from the generation of electricity if an electric vehicle was any more environmentally friendly than a comparable gasoline engine.

With current power generation techniques in the US, it's not.

Going back to school, starting Saturday

Starting this coming Saturday, October 1st I begin taking classes again at Western Governor's University.

This will be my second attempt at starting a degree at an online university. The first was through Capella. And as I'm writing this blog entry, there is an advert for Capella right here.

The reason I was not successful with Capella was that the course I took was dependent on time spent "in class". As well as dependent on group projects.

Facebook and Twitter integration (Google Plus?) revisit.

It seems that after a few module updates, I am no longer receiving the Share to Facebook function when updating stories and blog postings is no longer available. I see that the code is in the modules contributed examples, but not fully integrated. Also the examples enable too many features that I actually don't want or have found a different/better looking way to provide them.

Twitter and Facebook integration

Over the weekend, I started to integrate my website EdwardFrye.com into social media sites and added icons to the site so you can find me on those social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.

Now I have enabled my website so you can sign into it using your Twitter or Facebook account to post comments directly on my site if you want.

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