Mr. Bob's Weblog

I haven’t posted much on politics here, but I don’t like Obama. No, not in a right-wing way, look through this blog to find my balanced political leaning and journey throughout my life, and even that won’t cover everything (I might make a page about this later).

But this isn’t about that, necessarily.

People tend to have saviors made of men who shouldn’t be saviors in the first place to begin with. Anyway, a lot of people will put their trust in Obama, and–because of that–they will be disappointed in him as well. Whenever that happens, should I rub it in their faces, show Obama instead as a villain instead of my savior? No. I’m going to show them the Gospel, which will make a savior out of a man who’s supposed to be, Jesus Christ.

Eph. 1:12 (KJV)

That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ

That being said, Obama is a jerk and his economic policies suck; but I will not rub it in your face any longer: here’s the Gospel instead.

For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.

(Psalm 8:5 KJV)

At one time, man was ‘ a little lower than the angels.’

But, when Jesus Christ, ‘Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.’ – Philippians 2:6-8 (KJV)

Because of this, Jesus Christ is: ‘… at his own right hand in the heavenly places, Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:’

Pretty coool.

And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.

(Matthew 23:12 KJV)

And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come. And when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks to him that sat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever, The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying, Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.

(Revelation 4:8-11 KJV)

I see two things here:

• The beasts praised first, and prompted the elders, so maybe creation cause us (humans) to praise the Lord?
• Humility: those elders cast their crowns before the Lord. Are we doing the same thing?

So I wanted to save money, right? So I it pork chops instead of going to a buffet. How much did I save? $1

I am now at the buffet and the pork chops are in a freezer bag.

Okay, so at one point last year my boss two levels up got SharePoint so we can make a new Intranet, so we can replace our current ASP/VBScript Intranet that was made with Dreamweaver.

I’ve taken it upon myself to know more about what it is capable of and how we can make the best Intranet ever for my employer. This has involved attending a few SharePoint events,
reading some books & documentation, and so on and so forth.

So, I signed up for a conference in SharePoint, and have gotten a few calls from some slimy salespeople about how we met at conference. Except, I didn’t attend (Due to unforeseen circumstances). This post was prompted by call just now from another salesman who said “we met at the SharePoint conference.” I simply hung up on the liar.

This is how it’s been from the beginning. (Almost) every SharePoint “expert” or person I’ve run into, online or off, has been unhelpful and usually wants to sell me something. Not a lot for a developer who simply wants a broad spectrum of what SharePoint is even capable of. Very different from the Open Source software and Web community as I’m used to.

I like making money, and understand the idea of it, but in the communities I come from, it’s more of a “build first, pay later as you build more” mentality. Like buying shoes or a car. Try first, and see if it fits accordingly. Or even if not that, at least an overview of whatever I’m being sold, right? (Note: saying it can anything doesn’t count, especially if you don’t give me more technical details.)

It’s not all bad though. I attended a SharePoint seminar on forms from FEDSPUG. It used InfoPath, which appears to be some propriety front-end that I’ll never use. But other than that, the community there seemed lacking in snake-oil, which I like.

Hopefully, I’ll see more this in the future.

We will see!