The Blog of Mark (SoftCoder) and Vickie Vejvoda

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Finally after a month of hard work, cutting down trees, cutting up beams using my Alaska mill and Husky CD2100 chainsaw, buying some cheap dimensional lumber along with expensive tin roofing, the hay shed is complete and the animals will have nice dry hay all winter! The beams in the picture are 20 feet in [...]

I have been involved (sometimes trying to get involved) in a number of open source projects and have noticed that the label “opensource” does not necessarily mean that you have an “open” project which you can download the code, compile it and get co-operation from the project admin(s).
First my success story. I worked with David [...]

In a previous post I had mentioned being challenged by the documentary titled Revolution OS, the Free Software Movement. This ultimately motivated me to place CallerID on sourceforge.net. While I don’t directly share many of the same views as Richard Stalman (they obviously oppose many of my religious views) I do agree with a number [...]

I have ignored (purposefully) the whole debate regarding evolution vs creationism. I believe in God, more specifically in Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit and God the Father just for more simple reasons and personal experience. Yet in a recent set of presentations, I have been absolutely intrigued by the massive amount of evidence that exists [...]

Over the years we have heard much about investing our money to prepare for the future. Freedom 55, and a good retirement is all the focus for an upcoming generation that is being told it will need to pay its own way during retirement. But there is a more important kind of investment, one that [...]