The New Now of Despair

None are built to last
The poor suffer while the rich thrive
Resources are dwindling.

Reduce Gas Prices

The first thing to fix is the economy, we can start the initial strike against the Aristocracy in lowering gas prices, and reducing the income of Oil Industry Executives.

To do this we follow the procedure found on the Facebook Group: "HELP MAKE GAS PRICES GO DOWN (This could really work)" By not buying from Exxon-Mobil we the consumer can lower the price of gasoline by using economies of scale. The other gas companies will lower their prices to stay competitive.

-TM

Draft Al Gore

http://www.draftgore.com/

Al Gore Wins Nobel Peace Prize!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21262661/?GT1=10450

Do it!

Don't read this.. unless you do.

I was recently thinking about a host of numbers, I now call them the Torrance Series, take a look as it does mean a lot to me:

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And this is as far as I got. Whether it be a code or an encryption, I am currently unsure. Let me know what you think of these numbers when you see them. It brings back my memories each time I go through them. these are the numbers that have meaning to me, and the numbers that I can't wait to count to everyday.

Hopefully I will be able to elaborate more on my numbers later.

Integration

I was thinking...

I saw a question somewhere: "What's your favourite colour?" ... It took me a while to answer Green, and even then, I wasn't entirely certain it was my favourite.

And then I wondered, what else am I unsure of? There were a bunch of things that I could not imediately answer so I am leaving them for later.

But then I came to "What is my favourite word?" And I have pondered for a few days now and have came up with a legitimate and rich answer: "Integration".

Dictionary Definition:
in·te·gra·tion /ˌɪntɪˈgreɪʃən/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[in-ti-grey-shuhn] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun
1. an act or instance of combining into an integral whole.
2. an act or instance of integrating a racial, religious, or ethnic group.
3. an act or instance of integrating an organization, place of business, school, etc.
4. Mathematics. the operation of finding the integral of a function or equation, esp. solving a differential equation.
5. behavior, as of an individual, that is in harmony with the environment.
6. Psychology. the organization of the constituent elements of the personality into a coordinated, harmonious whole.
7. Genetics. coadaptation (def. 2).
[Origin: 1610–20; integrate + -ion; cf. L integrātiō renewal]
—Synonyms 1. combination, blending, fusing.
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.

My Reasoning:

• When I a looking at software and I want the best, I used to look for things that could aggregate content and display it nicely, and possibly link to content to learn more... but then I realized that what I really want is integrated software. Take the Office 2007 Softwares. Bill Gates has created a masterpiece system called MOSS 2007 that not only Links All Office Applications together, but, by Gates' mandate, links all Microsoft products together. They created a common ground for which all products share and they aptly named it "SharePoint" -- Probably the best invention in software, as well as the least noticed/appreciated
• Also, I was looking at my dashboard in my car, and I saw a button that said: "Satellite" And since I did not buy the "Premium Package" I knew that button did nothing, but it sure does look nifty! Furthermore, I knew that that button isnt just a fascade, but, when I buy my satellite package, it will serve as the switch for Satellite. And the rest of the regular radio buttons will be shared when that button is activated.
• Imagine if everything had a basic, plug-and-play architecture. Start with software, then escalate to hardware, then to Structures and Buildings, then Bridges, Airplanes, Cars, Trains, Housing, Funiture, Electricity...

Imagine a world of plug-and-play

Imagine the simplicity

Imagine the Integration

The Integrated World of Tomorrow:

• Requires a common Architectural Framework that allows for 4-dimensional connections.
• We would have to redifine our standards
• The architecture and design of the Framework would have to be flawless by iteration an be as universally acceptable as mathematics
• It will be based on mathematics
• I will chat more on this tomorrow... please leave your comments!

YouTube Debates

Wow!

This is a history-changing step forward!

Enjoy:

http://www.youtube.com/democraticdebate

http://www.youtube.com/republicandebate (09-17-2007) **Ask Questions**

Whoo Hoo!

Barack O'Bama

This is an excerpt from NBC news:

"Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said Thursday the United States
cannot use its military to solve humanitarian problems and that preventing a
potential genocide in Iraq isn’t a good enough reason to keep U.S. forces
there.
“Well, look, if that’s the criteria by which we are making decisions
on the deployment of U.S. forces, then by that argument you would have 300,000
troops in the Congo right now — where millions have been slaughtered as a
consequence of ethnic strife — which we haven’t done,” Obama said in an
interview with The Associated Press.
“We would be deploying unilaterally and
occupying the Sudan, which we haven’t done. Those of us who care about Darfur
don’t think it would be a good idea,” he said.

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Full Article

This, obvious, point is a great argument... unfortunately few people are able to undestand and put into action the words he and others say again and again. "Get out of Iraq".

My Web Presence

Click on the link to see a list of search results for me.

The first 9 are definitely me, then there are pages and pages of other stuff...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=torrance+miller&btnG=Search

Aren't I smug?

Go Google.

What SharePoint is:

This is an excerpt of some references in an email I was send last night by my team lead at Campus Management. Overall, I would say that 3% of employees are supportive of a new SharePoint 2007 Environment... This is Wrong! These numbers should be higher! The word needs to get to our employees faster and the word is this: "SharePoint is the definitive OS or platform for the middle tier"

http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/04/while_you_were.html
SharePoint is its new operating system - the hub or platform upon which its hold on the enterprise tightens and extends. No matter what product you're selling into the enterprise, if you don't have a SharePoint story, you're in trouble.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=327
Microsoft officials increasingly are talking up "Software + Services," as opposed to "Software as a Service" in explaining Microsoft's future. So how does Microsoft keep the growing family of business services it is introducing tethered to on-premise software?
SharePoint Server is the answer. Not Windows. Not Windows Server. Not Office. SharePoint.
Ballmer told the Convergence questioner he was dead-on in his thinking.
"SharePoint is the definitive OS or platform for the middle tier," Ballmer explained.
http://www.sharepointbuzz.com/index.php/2007/03/15/sharepoint-the-next-big-operating-system-from-Microsoft/
Its a good vision of what's to come with SharePoint. Recently, we heard about Microsoft Announces New Package to Extend Microsoft Dynamics ERP Solutions to Microsoft Office Users. This integration of Dynamics and SharePoint was interesting with few noticing the impact of this.
http://www.it-director.com/business/content.php?cid=9570 (this is about SharePoint being used by the DOE after complying with governmental standards, but pertinent here)
…"We believe that this announcement is noteworthy because it seems to confirm our belief that SharePoint is likely to emerge as a very strategic product for Microsoft in the enterprise market—more strategic than it would seem at the moment—and that Microsoft recognizes the leverage generated by conformance with government standards. We believe that SharePoint is Microsoft's way of attempting to seize the center ground, and not the battlefield occupied by SQL against Oracle, nor the operating system battle, but a way to be at the eye of the storm: the ultimate repository of all information regardless of format"…..
http://planetmoss.blogspot.com/2007/06/more-information-about-sharepoint-web.html
It sure feels like a tectonic shift in the web programming world is happening...the tricky part is seeing which way the ground's moving!

Infinity By Zero dot Com

http://www.infinitybyzero.com is an office live! site. I am excited, as you can see in a previous post, about microsoft opening up SharePoint to all. I have created a little site there and am playing around with some of the basic features to hopefully spread myopinion throughout the world...

Campus Space

CampusSpace - Charlie Smith's original satirical office humor - is now available for all to enjoy!
go to http://campusspace.blogspot.com and learn how "the life" is.

Good Day!

My Hole

Last Cleaned: Mid-March
Number of thoughts/day 14528
Number of documented ideas/thoughts: 1423
Publicly: 42
Internal: 12
External: 30
Scribbled on paper: 1251
Eluded to: 130

Office Live!

Microsoft has done it!

Office Live is amazing! They buy a domain name for you and host it via SharePoint. I can't believe they have done this so quickly, it is truly amazing and more deeply defines what MOSS 2007 is truly capable of.





Check it out here:


http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/officelive/FX101465131033.aspx

Imagine the possibilities...

Elektrizitätswerke Boca Raton

EWBR

I hope that, by reading the rest of my posts, you can easily extrapolate what I mean by this.

Oh, I am from Boca Raton, FL.... We will spread North, and then to the West...

Infinity By Zero Avatar ALPHA .3

I have created my ALPHA v0.3 GrAvatar/Symbol that represents my thoughts entirely. Infinity by Zero. What do we have here?

1

0

You be the judge, if you some day get to know me, I might explain my theory to you. But there is only 1 thing that I "Believe" in in this world, and that is that the product of Infinity and Zero is exactly 1. Given that Infinity is equal to 'n' + infinite zeros and 0 is equal to .infinite zeros, 'n'. Surely, you think this is an explaination, but no. It means much more to me that the product is exactly one. It, for me atleast, defines reality as a constant singularity. As Big Bang * Big Crunch = 1. If you were able to ignore time, or somehow get rid of it, everything would equal 1. Why? ... I might know, it might be my secret. Or maybe I have already told you. www.torrancemiller.com

Recentralization

In Appendence to Recentralization, as coined here: http://copperwestinsider.blogspot.com/2007/07/another-cross-post.html.

I would like to add my thoughts:

1. Each unit of civilization will need power and light, and most likely, to be self-sufficient will rely on solar and wind power as done in Schoenau, De: http://www.ews-schoenau.de/Informationen/International/english2.asp
2. This is a market that could be globally localized.. if we could start a company that produced means for small towns to incorporate themselves and form mini power plants on a peer-to-peer basis we could create "community-power".
3. Robotics and Human Interface Devices will go up in popularity as the cost for transport of IT People and having remote meetings rises. People will want to interact is the same, in-person ways that they have always done, but unfortunately, will not be able to. So I proaose virtual physical space: A way to project people in a meeting room around a table and be able to interact with their 3D image naturally. Also, Robots to maintian servers and other electronic components that would be human remote controlled by IT Professionals at a central location.

I will add to this later...

Torrance Miller dot com and IBZ Search

IBZ Search is up and running you can see it at http://www.torrancemiller.com/ or go directly there by clicking here.

The Brand-New IBZ search is here for Me and people like me to find all of the things that define me. Such as the future, technology, and energy.

It is a Google Custom Search that only indexes sites that I specify. I DO NOT take requests for new sites.

Type in something like "Storage" to see why. When I search for "Storage" I am looking for Hydrogen Containment Units. Catch the drift?

SharePoint Search

A new thing to try out, it is a Google Custom Searcher just for SharePoint Products and technologies. Try to compare to the regular Google Search by searching for "lists". Please do forward me sites that you want indexed at any time, thanks!

SharePoint Search Engine

Torrance Miller.com

The Energy and Transportation Industry

Slowly, but surely we are moving forward.

Hybrid technology was a step forward, but perhaps more of a trip than an actual step. Environmentally, hybrid technology is lethal and moronic, it is a good way to think your going green: just as hiding under the covers would protect you from nuclear bombing, it just doesn't help.

Too many people are saying that hydrogen energy storage is too far in the future: you are all completely wrong and may be mildly retarded. Lithium and nickel are finite resources that are heavy and environmentally detrimental.

A temporary solution: make a 4-banger that can burn both gas and H2, but has a mighty alternator/ magnetic stopping system that will convert H20 into H2 on demand, and the H2 that is not burned will be stored in a safe HydroSludge tank as BMW's new H7 does. only, its a 4-banger and will be cheap, and efficient. Hybrid my ass, get the point.. 35-60mpg is silly... we need 100+ mpg. Or possibly nuclear cars with infinte mpg. Get your heads on straight and look forward instead of looking side to side like a friggin' idiot.

This WILL happen, and we will reform our government and our corporate-environmental stratigies... it is just a matter of getting enough of the right people focused on the right solution.

Microsoft Surface's Website is written in Adobe Flash 9???!?!?!

http://www.microsoft.com/surface/

Apparently, when it comes to advertising their own products, Microsoft would rather use Adobe than themselves (silverlight). To me this is not adequate and extremely fishy. If your going to have a product for this type of websites you should take advantage of that product, not ignore it!

This is awesome! .. too bad there are no links to these concepts, I will post as I find them.

Renewable Energy Trends

by Michelle Bery
When in 2005 the federal Production Tax Credits (PTC) for companies producing renewable power was renewed, it sent a message far and wide that the renewable energy industry was worth getting into, with the promise of profitability, energy efficiency, and social/environmental “good karma” all in one tidy package. The following are some of the latest ways we’ve seen this collective foray into renewable energies take shape.

The Workforce: Businesses are given tax credits for changing over their sources of electricity to certain renewable energies, steadily increasing the demand for workers in every area of the industry – from research and development to manufacturing to distribution to installation, service and support.

More and more states are taking the federal government’s lead and implementing their own public incentive programs and benefit funds to encourage greater renewable energy usage, with the same result. According to a report released by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, in the five years between 2001 and 2006 the voluntary demand for renewable energies increased a thousand-fold. The bottom line is as clear as sunlight - the renewable energy industry creates jobs.

The Corporations: General Electric, Whole Foods Market, Safeway, Starbucks, General Motors, Kinko’s, FedEx – these are but some of the world-leading companies that have made and continue to make an active and aggressive switch to renewable energies.

In the case of many companies, this comes in the form of purchasing renewable energy credits to supplant their local utility usage. In other cases, the forays into renewable power run deeper, producing their own biofuels, setting up their own wind farms, and investing in research and development into improved renewable energy technologies.

The Military: The Pentagon has ordered all branches of the U.S. military to curb energy use by 2% at all bases and facilities through pursuit of alternative power sources, including wind and solar energies.

The President: President Bush’s ranch, the Crawford Ranch, is equipped with all the latest and greatest in renewable energy resources and operates entirely off the grid.

The World: The Australian government has a stated objective of increasing the proportion of its total electricity production that comes from renewable energy sources by 78% by the year 2010. The United Kingdom’s goals are a bit more modest but praiseworthy nonetheless, shooting for 10% from only 3.6%, also by the year 2010.

The Future: An inventor by the name of Todd Livingstone has a patent currently pending on a technology to harness the power packed into lightning bolt, estimated at 11 gigawatts each. A Canadian engineer believes that his Atmospheric Vortex Engine is the way to tame a funnel cloud (also known as a tornado). The “Manchester Bobber” is a patented new device for harnessing the power of the up and down motion of waves.

Floating wind systems. Harnessing the power of differences in atmospheric pressure between geographically distant cities. Semi-transparent photovoltaic glass used as windows in office buildings. MIT’s self-described “Manhattan Project” for new, renewable sources of power. Installing devices in highway off-ramps that harness the power of vehicles braking. Generate biomass energy from trees downed in hurricanes.

And if we look further down the horizon, what else can we see? Maybe the next big thing will be Focus Fusion, a technology for producing new zero-emission power plants the size of gas stations. Maybe it’ll be Blackligh Power, a technology that harnesses power from particles called “hydrinos” which are even smaller than atoms of hydrogen. Or maybe it’ll be electromagnetic energy. Whatever renewable energy trends we have in store for us next, there is one thing we can all count on: as the demand for these types of renewable power sources continues its steady rise, funding for research and development into new and better ways of harnessing renewable energy will also increase, leading to more efficient and affordable energy alternatives for us all.

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Using CO2 for Energy

http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/05/26/from-carbon-dioxide-to-fuel/

This article is particularly interesting in that it describes a way not only to reduce the amount of COO in the atmosphere but also make energy whilst do it. I am looking further into the method for doing this and will comment on it later.

Nanotechnology and Alternate Energy

Can nanotechnology be good for climate? by ZDNet's Roland Piquepaille -- The UK's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has recently released a long report stating that nanotechnology might offer hope for climate change. This study has focused on 5 specific areas: fuel additives, solar cells, the hydrogen economy, batteries and insulation. The conclusion of this report is that nanotechnology could contribute to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by up to 20 per cent by 2050. The largest reduction would come from using hydrogen as a source of energy. Unfortunately, this might be very difficult and will take years.

I am thinking on this... I wonder how far we can go with extracting the energy given to us from the sun. I wonder how we can get solar arrays on top of every building and embedded in every vehicle in the world as soon as possible, I wonder how we should start to change and how fast it can be done.

Campus Management is Hiring!

Jr. Portal Developer (C#, ASP.NET)

Our Software Product Development Team is recruiting a junior-to-mid level software engineer with the ability, skills, and drive to help grow our product. This team operates in a high-energy, fast paced environment that focuses on technology to drive business objectives. Candidates must be able to hit the ground running and develop software with high levels of quality and performance.

Responsibilities:

As a member of our Portal Team, you will help design, develop and maintain software on .Net platform. This involves working closely with other Developers, Business Analyst and QA team members. You will also conduct and assist in design and development reviews. Should be comfortable with direct communication with all levels of technical and business resources.

Qualifications Needed:

· Good communication skills.

· Solid Object Oriented Programming.

· 2+ using: C#, ASP.NET (Web Applications and Web Services), ADO.NET and SQL Server (must include current versions).

· Good understanding of ASP.NET State Management and Caching.

· Bachelor's degree or higher in CS, CIS or related

Skills Required

· Knowledge in OO development principles, multi-tier web application design and relational database principles required.

· Database development (table and stored procedure design) using Microsoft SQL Server.

· Strong client-side skills including DHTML, JavaScript and HTML.

· Fluency in English - excellent written and verbal skills.

Foodle.Net

I have recently been working on a new project at Foodle Menu Services. I am now incharge of National sales and recruiting. Which means, if you are a restaurant owner or if you are interested in selling listings to restaurant owners in your area you should contact me. Tmiller@Foodle.Net is my main address for this. You can ask me anything about sales/becoming a sales rep. through that email and I will get back to you in about 2-3 business days max.

If you are based in a large city, not only am I interested in hiring you but you will have a better revenue flow due to obvious (nearly infinite) numbers of clients. Please do not hesitate to contact me as soon as possible and I can get you started.

If you are a restaurant manager or restaurant owner great news, I can save you money if you do your Foodle.Net listing directly through me and if you mention this blog i will give you and additional 10% off this year's subscription. Code word: "BlogSpot10". Hurry and get your menu out to the web with Foodle.Net today and attract hundreds if not thousands of new customers today!

Thanks,
Torrance R. Miller
Regional Sales Director, Foodle Menu Services
tmiller@foodle.net (sales and recruiting inquiries)
Jobs

Opening Statement

I am currently lookiing into what web 2.0 can offer my organization as an internal communication tool. The areas that I am focusing on are: simplicity, blogs, usability, spaces, community, etc. Basic networking etc. that comes with web 2.0. I am interested in connected the groups that have formed. These groups of people work great together, but when it comes to an issue that is outside of their subject area it is not the easiest task to find someone who is the most knowledgable to help them. Therefore, using SharePoint Server 2007 and MySites, I plan to allow every employee express what they want to accomplish and what they are skilled in at the company. I feel this will not only link people separated by nothing more than a wall to connect in ways that will benefit not only their morale but also help increase operational efficiency by introducing everyone to everyone in the company for the first time.

This will also open up a channel through which people such as the CEO, CTO, and CFO can communicate with the rest of the company by posting blogs of their vision of the future of the company and updating everyone who wants to know on the progress of important events in a simplistic manner.

I see a bright future with the use of Microsoft Sharepoint Server 2007 and hope that my implementation will yield great results internally in my organization.

The Beginning

Currently I have several private blogs in mixed places, I am now making this my main public access blog where I will post things that I think are important and content that I feel should be indexed on google servers etc.