My Philosophy

If there is only one thing in my blog you ever read I hope this is it.

Ignore the Nay Sayers. Never accept abuse of any sort from anyone.

Listen to your heart. Think with your head.
Involve passion at all times and truly love your partner.
Give them more reasons to be a greater person.
Encourage them everyday.
Support them with your heart, body and soul.

Above all. Don't be afraid to challenge them, play with them and find a way to laugh and cry with them as much as you can.

Imagine you know that these are your last days to be alive together and love them like there may not be a tomorrow.

Learn to forgive, understand and be compassionate and teach by example.
Remember that everything you do is an example for somebody.
Be the best example you can for good.
Be honest and steadfast. Be true to yourself.

Accept this universal truth
Some will like you and some won't.
SO WHAT!

Some people will not be ready for this kind of love. Don't worry. Keep looking.
There is someone out there looking for you too.
Never give up. Search UNTIL you find them.

And live your life along the way.

Learn to listen. Really listen. The universe is giving you everything you need
Listen and filter. Challenge the thoughts not the words. -- Always challenge.

A few great quotes from a few amazing people...

Things not only have to be right. They have to look right. (Perception) -- My Parents
Go for the goal, but remember to enjoy every second of the journey -- Barb
When the WHAT is big enough the HOW becomes clear. -- Stephen

Love yourself, your friends and your family. In the end they are the only ones that count.

My name is David Sullivan. I am a Son, a father, a friend and a partner.
I am a very blessed man.

Take these words. read them again. find the thoughts behind them and challenge them to see if they can help you.

I give these wisdoms to anyone willing to read them, with all my love.
Dave

PS Practice everyday being kinder and more understanding. Some of us find this harder than others but will continue UNTIL we get it right.

Arise from the Ashes of great Pheonix and take your place in cosmos

The world has changed and I with it !!!

Wow. It has been a while since I felt like blogging. Much in my life has changed since last I wrote. I have become separated from my Wife of 13 years. I have moved on. I have struggled like many before me and I would like to believe I have grown much.

I have taken a detour in my career path, watched depression over whelm a loved one to dangerous levels and witnessed their slow climbing up out of the ashes. I have lost a dearly loved relative to Leukemia and discovered how to love myself again.

My name is David Sullivan and I love people and life.
In this blog I will share my little lessons and wonderful experiences when ever I feel the need.

today I wrote a quick piece about some things I believe I have learned.

I will post it next -- Called My Philosophy

The Richard Benefit Poker Tournament

Congratulation to Jason Richard, family and friends for hosting a wonderful poker tournament at Bow Ties in Saint John on Sunday 9th Feb 2008

I had a terrific time and met some of the nicest people I have ever met.

Count me for more tournaments my friend

So I took a few pictures and though I should post them here.
Enjoy

I can remember in high school when teachers had us complete a series of tests to help us decide what career paths we should pursue.

Funny as this may seem; my scores in high school were the exact opposite of what they are now. I am quite impressed with how accurate these test have become.

My key point here is that these test tell us what we are better suited for with our current experience and aptitudes. They don't tell us what we will be good at later.

I hope that we age like fine wines. Developing our flavors and colors as we get older. The more exposure I have had to the business world the more rounded and capable I have become. Back in high school I was told I should be a teacher or a priest. Now being the programmer / Analyst that I am, I was impressed to see the results that you see in the image above.

I have a deep rooted love for working with people, leading, managing and technology. Seems to fit the profile I would say.

*** You're always better off knowing a little about yourself and a lot about who you WANT to be.
Set goals, dream big.Believe you will be and it will come true.

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Code comments and the lessons I am learning

As a programmer I am always expected to comment my codes. Obviously this makes my code easier to understand for others. Good comments are also to help me read my code in the future.

*** Now for todays lesson.

My best friend Stephen Nickerson was doing a code review for me and had this to share with me.
When you first start writing a new class it is a good practice to write a brief paragraph at the top of this class. Of course this is common sense. Normally I would eventually write a paragraph describing what the class does.

Now here is the gold nugget. He taught me that the very first thing you should write in this paragraph should be "What is my goal in writing this class."

If you get one thing from this, get this!

Start every Class with a small paragraph stating "My goal when writing this class is ..."

Sounds simple does it not? Well it is. The reality is that the goal that you have in mind for this class is way more important than the details about how you did it. It works like a mission statement for a business. I have found, now when I type the words . " My goal for this class is to ..." I establish my mission. That's right. Things become amazingly clearer.

It is like active negotiation with myself. Instead of getting caught up in the details I agree up front that this is my goal. Now everything must point toward that goal.

I have caught myself many times when power programming having to go back to methods I wrote, to comment them. While writing this short paragraph describing the goal of the method I formulated a better way to accomplish the goal.

Last but not least always add your name and the date to the end of your class opening comments.

A few thoughts here. Adding your name and the date does a couple of things. First it establishes hey I wrote this. This is my brain child. Next it allows people to know who to ask for advise in the future when working on similar tasks or modifying this code. It also allows you to go back and review your work years from now and to see where you were and how far you have come.

Last thought on this. Having your name in the code is like "Coca Cola" being printed on you soda can. That is right. You can build brand recognition. You never know who may someday be reading that code and saying man i wish we had that program Mr. XYZ here with us. He obviously figured this stuff out before. It could be worth our time to find him and offer him a contract to help us.

Just my thoughts. Be bold enough to carve a new trail. Be accountable to your actions and be willing to accept the pat on the back or the kick in the butt. Eventually you will learn how to get more pats on the back.

DIR-655 Router and Vonage no incoming calls.

Sharing the wealth of technical topics through blogging by David Sullivan.


DIR-655 Router and Vonage. Outgoing calls work fine but my incoming calls don't work.

If you have just reset or installed a DIR-655 and your vonage phone stops working I have your reason.

this router has a setting for enable "SIP" this needs to be disabled. look around and find the "SIP" and disable it.

Note. this is not a typo. It is "SIP". There is also an SPI this is not the one.

Disable "SIP" and all will start working.

Good Luck.