Well… I got home today to a tired wife and a tired tike.  Anthony just did not want to go to sleep but was so tired at the same time.  I tried my usual Daddy routine of having him on my shoulder and singing to him, that just didn’t work.  Kathy tried feeding him again, but that did not work.  I finally went upstairs in the nice quietness of our bedroom and the rocker/glider.  The room was completely dark and very quiet.  I sat and rocked with him while singing songs softly to him.  This went on for a good twenty minutes when he finally fell asleep.  When I laid down with him on the bed, wouldn’t you know it but our cat Cinder decided to jump up and the bed.  She just wouldn’t take no for an answer!  She kept trying to climb up on Anthony to get to me for attention when I finally picked her up and plunked her off the bed.  Too late, Anthony woke up and it was back to the glider.  Ten minutes and several more choruses of “Rock a bye baby” and “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” later he finally fell asleep.  After giving up on moving to the bed and twenty more minutes later, Kathy came up to take over the sleeping tike.  I love that little guy!

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I just got off the phone with Ann P. at work.  We briefly touched on the concept of podcasting here at Munder.  She thinks it sounds like a promising idea.  Now, Ann came up with an idea I had not considered.  She suggested that we do some recordings of someone talking about each of our funds.  Now why didn’t I think of that?  The ability of anyone to connect to our site, subscribe to us and be able to download the most up to date information about each of our funds.  Wow!  Very cool!  Also, we can track our traffic and subscriber rate to get an idea of how many people are interested in our funds as well as tell how we are reaching our audience.  I reiterated that we would also want to do a podcast based upon “experts” at Munder speaking about topics that are of interest to listeners and more importantly potential clients with a quick excerpt at the beginning and end of the podcast giving contact information.  These podcasts would only need to be 15-30 minutes in length and could talk about any number of topics our experts would like to address.

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Installing SharePoint Server 2007! Finally installing SharePoint Server 2007 here at work.  So far so good.  Chris and I have been working together on it and we should have a fully working server by the end of the day.

 Well… what they don’t tell you in class!  My word!  Ok, as we were installing this server on a 32Bit server, we installed Windows Server 2003 R2 with service pack 1.  However, we had patched the server as completely as possible and installed IIS and ASP onto the server as well.  During the class I attended for MS SharePoint Server 2007 implementation and installation not ONCE did they mention that DotNet 3.0 or ASP 2.0 needed to be installed.  Nor did they mention in class that the Enhanced Security configuration being installed (which is installed by default) would raise so much trouble getting SharePoint to run.  Needless to say, we removed the enhanced security, installed the DotNet 3.0 and ASP 2.0 and were able to access the Home Page on the local server by using “localhost”.  All is now well… it’s just the little things they seem to leave out during class that get you.

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Welcome to my first real venture into Blogging.  I figured I would give it a go, maybe someone will care about what I have to say about different things that come up in my life, maybe no one will, but, what the heck, I’ll give it a shot anyway. 

 Away we go!

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