Chase Brammer

I am hesitant to post this because I keep wanting to add more goals to my list… but ironicly enough that is also why I am posting it, because it will wrap it up before it gets too fine grained and bloated.  These are things I want to accomplish this year, by my 30th brithday, and my 40th brirthday.

• Finance
  • No consumer debt
  • Be more frugal
  • Buy an investment property

• School
  • Get a 4.0 in my iSys Classes
  • Don’t miss a class when I can be there
  • Effective study time (no reading too many blogs)

• Work
  • Work 35+ hours in the school year
  • Get a raise
  • Gather more ideas for more startups
  • Be more involved in local Flex groups

• Family & Friends
  • Surprise Lindsey with a special date, flowers, etc once a month
  • Take Jake, Luke, Ike, and Parker camping
  • Spend time individually with each of my brother-in-laws
  • Go golfing with my dad 10 times
  • Go boating w/ friends 5 times

• Mind
  • Blog once a week
  • Listen to more talk radio, less music
  • Listen to more books on tape
  • Read 2 books a month
  • Set and review goals weekly
  • Take notes in church meetings
  • Write down more of my ideas
  • Read less fantasy novels, more business/historical novels

• Spirit
  • Be involved in a charity somehow
  • Daily Scriptures
  • Read the Old Testament
  • Daily couple prayer
  • Focus on Charity
  • 100% HT

• Body
  • Drink less soda
  • Complete the Ragnar Relay
  • Ride LOTOJA
  • Run a marathon
  • 400 miles a month cycling (summer months)
  • Complete the p90x program

• When I am 30 Goals
  • Getting ready to go back to MBA school
  • Have started my own business
  • Make 100k a year
  • Have two kids
  • Own a 3 properties besides my home

• When I am 40 Goals
  • Have started several businesses
  • Own lots of investment property
  • Be a millionaire (not including my home and personal assets)
  • Have 5 kids
  • Have no debt
  • Have all of my kids colleges and missions paid for

A friend emailed me a humorous link that was posted on slashdot about what religions would be in the programming world.    I like it that Mormonism was included on the list.

C# would be Mormonism - At first glance, it’s the same as Java, but at a closer look you realize that it’s controlled by a single corporation (which many Java followers believe to be evil), and that many theological concepts are quite different. You suspect that it’d probably be nice, if only all the followers of Java wouldn’t discriminate so much against you for following it.

But where is my other religion, Actionscript?  If I were to make the same analogies to actionscript…

Actionscript would be the Church of England - Actionscripts dominant cousin, via the ECMA family , is javascript - the most commonly used language on the web and like the Catholic church has millions of adherants, of which almost none really know the language.  When Macromedia needed a little more som’n som’n like Henry the VIII did, we ended up with a divergent, but very similar language.

Daniel Dura - a really cool AIR Platform evangelist from Utah that I have met a few times at different flash user group meetings - just posted a great video on encrypting data in AIR.

I just wanted to point out how awesome AIR is that there is a single method in Flex to encrypt data - the EncryptedLocalStore feature, and it will switch between the different most secure encryption methods for different operating systems.  For Macs it will default to using the Keychain, and for Windows it will default to using the DPAPI.

What is cool too, is because EncryptedLocalStore uses just a simple ByteArray to store data, you can encrypt almost anything you can load into the Flash Player - images, swf’s, text … anything really.

Now, my question of curiousity, does anyone know what it uses for Linux?