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Yesterday, Tuesday, my father-in-law underwent Gamma Knife therapy for brain tumors. Some of you may know that he has had brain tumors for a few years now. He's had two surgeries, but the doctors say they cannot open his head any more. So they felt the Gamma Knife, focused, heavy doses of radiation, would be the next best thing. It was an outpatient procedure, requiring his head to be put in a halo. The halo was attached around 6AM with local anesthetic. The procedure began about 4:30PM. He was awake the whole time. The doctors did an MRI in the morning to get precise measurements for the tumors and said that it did not seem that they had grown much, and that there were no new growths. We'll know in 3 months how this treatment worked, when he has his next checkup.

In an effort to help others avoid the issues I've faced, I've compiled a brief check list of To-Dos when it comes to securing your computer. In the upper right corner of this page (Top of my menu) is Secure Windows. This is a page I've created with links that will help secure your windows installation. If you have anything you think should be added, let me know.

Never trust Microsoft to protect your Microsoft products. I had Windows Defender installed, which is supposed to block unwholesome software, it didn't. I was going through my e-mail, using (garbage pieace of #$%@#% crap) Outlook, with the preview window open. I right click on spam to mark it as junk mail, but of course, it loads it in the preview window. (When will you learn Kenyon!) Next thing I know, my AVG anti-virus is going berserk, and pop ups are loading all over the place. AVG kept the infestation down to under 100. But I had to log in on a second account, because mine was so messed up. I ran an AVG full scan, and Windows Defender scan. But STILL had to load Spybot Search & Destroy to clean a couple things Defender couldn't. Needless to say, my work PC was down most of the AM. Which brings me to my next point, Complete Wilderness Training ! At first I thought, 'Hugh McManners? How could a name like that write this book?' But I tell ya, he was a life saver. H...

I'm cleaning stuff off my old computer, before I move to the new one. I found a trove of funny stories. Therefore I've updated my Funny Stuff page. Enjoy!

'If you’re in a survival situation, the only thing you need to know about a spotted owl is that it tastes like chicken !!!' - Taken from the Survival Primer .

Great White http://mark.phillk.net/GreatWhite/

This was too funny not to post. An ode to Mr. Really Long Comment Giver. (Link no longer available.) If you have trouble, try here: Link No Longer Available Edit (8/22/2007): My link is no longer available, so I took the links out. Edit (5/20/2008): This was not done by me. I had heard it, posted about it, and since removed the link and lost the file. I do not know who made it, or where you can get it or any like it. Sorry.

Check out some nifty pictures on my website .

It was an awesome convention, but I guess I shouldn't have been staring at the camera. See why here . And here's another one: http://www.wfmz.com/cgi-bin/tt.cgi?action=viewstory&storyid=16915

I like this guy... he probably practiced long and hard to get this right. Evolution of Dance

Easy-does-it plan to irk hooligans I just wonder how Barry feels about all this.

Here's the status so far: I can enter in orders, and I can enter in inventories. The two main functions I designed this for, was to combine literature orders for a literature group. (Coordinator) Also to show movement of literature to aid in ordering. I have pretty much all the literature listed in the program, more than half a dozen languages, and some of the movement functionality built in. But I haven't finished the 2 main goals. As this is the convention season, I don't know how much time I will have to devote to this. We have ours in June, as well as a wedding. My parents have theirs in July, and my sister will probably be getting baptized there, but it is a long trip to see them. If you would like, you can watch my weblog here or my web site ( http://mark.phillk.net ). I will post updates there. Also, as soon as I have a beta, or anything else to try, it will be here: http://mark.phillk.net/dskLitTracker.php Sorry it is taking so long.

K, I've got my ASP.Net project, I'm trying to debug and the debugger shows my updated code, but you can tell it's running the old code. Here's my question .

Thought this was funny. Poor little bunnies...

Check it out here http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/05/25/armless.driver.ap/index.html Let's see, in other news... we're doing good. Steff's got a bible study. Had instruction talk and then we did a demo. Harmon family reunion this weekend. That's Steff's family. Week after her parents will be in a band having a gig. Week after that is the District convention. Week after that my buddy Jerry is getting married. So, I'll try to keep us all posted. For code stuff, work decided to update the look of the entire site. Well, the web guy they have was doing it in dreamweaver. I really held out for ASP.Net 2.0 master pages, and was allowed to do that for the forms. It's tricky... all the code had to be cleaned up, because 2.0 is stricter. So, now my boss is asking, 'Why'd we do that?' It'll be better, I'm sure.

I like Yahoo Photos. It's pretty easy to use. Thus, I have put up photos of our trip to the Philly Zoo. A really nice zoo too. http://photos.yahoo.com/qwert231

Woman ditches wheelchair, flees police Just thought that was a funny story.

I know you all regularly go to my site to make your online purchases... You will want to update your bookmarks. We are not talking about this, my weblog. But my site will no longer be mark.arkaoss.com. My site is now mark.phillk.net . Make sure to use 2 Ls. I have tried to check my links but I may have missed some. To quote my brother, who's domain this is, 'If you have any questions please write them in sanskrit and submit them Via "a slow tortoise" to' me. (He's very clever, isn't he.)

I cleaned up my main page, added some pics to my train layout and some a picture of us. The site is here . The trains are here . We are here .

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (Reuters) -- America's smallest state is seeking to become its first to offer a wireless broadband network from border to border. So, they put in 2 or 3 antennas and call it a day.