Now that’s better. After an absence of about a month I check in on my poor little blog to find almost 200 spam comments, a whole bunch of upgrades to my plugins, and a new version of WordPress along with a new beta of the next version of the blogging software.

Should see my other blog. That damn thing has like 30 plugin upgrades waiting. Too bad I don’t use that blog.

My time has, of course, been filled with my new jobs as a full time programmer and Mr. Mom to my daughter and a mutt that I can’t stand. But it’s been good so far as I’ve regained my confidence when it comes to php programming. I used to do this a long time ago, but after I had stopped for several years and then came back to it with this blog, I couldn’t remember how to do shit.

I’ve definitely worked past that in the last two months as I’ve just about got a full software built almost from scratch. We actually purchased the software from a guy because it was the best software we could find. That actually still stands, even if I often feel like pounding on his skull with a ridiculously blunt object.

I understand that some people don’t put as much thought into valid html and css and all that, but some of the shit this guy did in his software is well beyond as even object attributes aren’t properly quoted, or even improperly quoted, they just aren’t quoted at all. For those don’t know, that can be a big problem as without some form of quoting around attributes some browsers will skip the property all together.

Needless to say it is extremely time consuming just going through a bunch of code putting in quotes.

As it stands now, only about 5% of the code remaining is from the original author. Of course in many areas I replicated what he did, but in some cases it changed by replacing tables with div elements, or replacing his javascript function to either resize and save or display images with my own because it works better.

I actually think that before long, once I can be sure that every last line of his code is removed, that I might just start making my software available for purchase. Still got a ways to go on that though as some features of it aren’t flawless … yet.

The MLS site is doing good too. Off to a great start actually with hundreds of realtors, listings, and upwards of 32,000 hits in the first month of operation. It was good enough to end the free promotion last weekend and that is a good thing.

I’ll try to stop neglecting my blog.

I say almost simply because he hasn’t begun working yet. Because while he will have an active role along side President Bush for the remainder of his term, he has months to go before he makes any real impact as the President of the United States.

I have to admit, as per usual with Obama, that his speech was impressive. He is a great speaker, but I still have my doubts about whether he will ever give himself the chance to speak of great things.

For all I’ve said and discussed and debated, it now comes down to what he will do in office. It is about the issues he will push, and the policies he will endorse.

It’s a matter of his willingness to follow his predicesors verses his desire to really change the way the President handles the responsibility. Will he understand and obide by the meaning of the Executive Order? Clinton and Bush haven’t.

My point in short, I am very nervous about what will happen during Obama’s term as President, but until he actually does one of the things that I fear he will, I will support my President.

I must admit, looking at the graphic on ABC News right now showing Obama and McCain at 0 Votes each is truly terrifying me.

On one hand, I see John McCain and all the ways in which he resembles President Bush. I for one have never approved of George Bush as President, and I have always thought of myself as a Democrat.

But while paying attention the past few months, I’ve only seen one important fact. Now I know that many of you will say that there are a lot of important issues in this election. From the war and terrorism, to the economy and bail out plans, there are plenty of high priority issues, but none of them really have any impact on the election.

The one concern I have, which is what terrifies me, is that I’ve heard so much from the Obama camp about change and doing this and that, but … and you knew there was a but … I see Obama being challenged on an issue and then changing his stance.

Is it really all that bad for a Presidential candidate to exhibit signs of being willing to adapt to the country’s voice? Not at all, but when is the last time that we thought of such rapid and unpredictable change as a good thing?

I look at it the same way as I look at the brakes on my car, if they only work sometimes, then I’ve got a huge problem. Or how about a job, what if the employer said, “We’re going to pay you $12.00 an hour based on the times that you record on the time clock.”

Then when payday comes around and your paycheck isn’t what you expected, they say, “Oh, well we decided that the best way to do this is to let our dedicated team of managers monitor when you begin and finish working and take notes, that way you get paid for all the work that you do regardless of some silly time clock.”

For me, that is a huge problem, it’s unreliable, it’s inconsistent, and it’s not worthy of my vote.

Obama also has too many issues arise about things that shouldn’t be associated with a good candidate. The whole terrorist friend thing did get overplayed, I’ll agree, but the point still remains that it’s an awfully risky proposition to even have those questions about a U.S. Presidential Candidate.

What about this little trip to see his ill grandmother? It happened right after someone threw a legitimate sounding accusation that Obama wasn’t born in the U.S. and then the ideas that perhaps he left his campaign not for a sick family member, but to get his birth certificate and make the necessary alterations.

And now, as I type this, I hear CNN bringing up the race subject. For the love of God, why can’t people move past the race issue?

There are so many racists in this country, and I really am shocked by this mainly because of the huge rise in folks that say they are voting for Obama because he is “one of their own”. BULLSHIT.

I am not voting for a black man to be President of my country, I’m voting for a man to be the President of my country. Color is not a factor.

He could be green, and aside from obvious health concerns, I wouldn’t think twice about voting for him IF HIS POLITICS ARE SOUND!

Sadly, I see many people being asked why they are voting for one or the other, and so far, Only those voting for McCain can answer questions about why they are voting for him with policies, and politics.

What’s even worse, is that some of the economic policies that the Obama camp is promoting directly can be quoted from Fascist and Socialist governments of the past. I know and love my Constitution, and I love this Republic, and I fear what may become of it with such a smooth talking person at the helm. John McCain is the best choice for President, even if only because he is the lesser of two evils. Ron Paul had the best policies of any political entity that I’ve ever encountered. I was sad to the real best candidate concede his run.