Joseph Fluckiger's Blog

This is a test Blog from Word 2007. Word has definitely been at the top of my worst software list (along with powerpoint and project) but this blog feature in 2007 definitely gives it a demotion in the worst catgory. - You have the advantages of a local editor, including fast and personalized spell checking, full screen editing with complete hot-keys, etc. And you don't have to open up yet another browser window to get lost among the tabs! -Then with one click you can publish, and it remembers your login/password. viola! a new post. Posting using email is is a pretty cool option as well. All you do is send an email to joseph.someemail@blogspot.com and blogger creates a post for me. The drawback is that it does a really poor job of formatting. You'll notice some of my posts have random line breaks, these are posts I have made by sending an email. I'm expecting that Word will do a better job. Another fear was that Word would create some crazy HTML, but it seems to have kept i...

I just had a great idea. I want to build a robot that can scale everest and clean off all the disposed compressed air canisters. I watched a special this week on Discovery channel: "Everest, Beyond the Limit". It was a great show, but the most dramatic moment of the show was when the expedition passed an injured and dying climber and they just had to leave him on the side of the mountain, because the air is so thin and the terrain so rugged that it is pretty much impossible to pull a man down from the mountain. And lots of people have died up there and there are all these dead bodies on the trail up the mountain. There are also lots of disposed air cannisters laying around. And it is never going to get any easier or any more possible for humans or hellicopters to get up there. But a robot could do it. A robot could bring home those discarded cannisters. There is just something about knowing the top of the world is clean. And then it could also rescue people who couldn't g...

Faith is beautifully defined by Alma as a belief in something which is not seen but which is true. It is also defined as a seed which grows, and takes root because of truth and faith. However I learned something new about faith tonight. I was listening to Glenn Beck give a fireside to our the youth of our stake, and while i was listening I had one of those eureka moments. And this is it: "Faith is a degree of enthusiasm in something." To have faith in something is to be enthusiastic about it. To believe in something, one is moved to act and direct decisions in accordance to faith in a principle. Enthusiasm is both the affect and the effect. So faith is not a passive principle, it is one which requires our activity, else it is not. Faith without works is dead, Faith without enthusasm will never have works.

I was talking to some 15 year old kids the other day and it is weird to think they were born in 1990. They never even knew the 80s! What a shame, what a gold age. Rockin time the 80s, and the 90s even better, too bad for them they couldn't have grown up in the best two decades ever!

In .NET the string class is a special type. It is a hybrid of both a value type and a reference type. A typical reference type is stored on the heap, and a typical value type is stored on the stack. Classes are reference types, for example, Windows.Forms.Textbox Numbers are value types, for example, Integer and Double. Value types are able to be stored on the stack because they have a finite length. Reference types have variable length. So for reference types, .NET keeps a memory reference on the stack to a location on the heap where the actual value is stored. This allows the stack to be very fast and compact while still being able to store large values like a string variable that contains the preamble to the Constitution. An analogy: A comparison to Sqlserver variables is the difference betwnee the char and the varchar data types. The char always has a fixed length, the varchar does not. So the string is a special animal. You can use it without always having to use a constructor. G...

I read a post that had a great idea! This post requested donations to help pay for the blog. I thought sure, why not and I donated a buck and it took less than two minutes to make the donation via my paypal account. Well I thought I'd try it. So here it is my request for donations: To help pay for the Joseph Fluckiger blog, world peace and the unification of string theory, click the "make donation" button below.

It’s amazing what you can find by typing in your name on google. Especially if your name is as unique as Joseph Fluckiger. Of 7 billion people on the planet, there are only a handful of Joseph Fluckigers. By searching on google, you can find, interestingly enough an archive of my race histories throughout my life, including my all-time favorite: a posting of the 1993 state championship team, Mesquite Poteet. Ah the glory days. I think my time was a 16:20 for a distance of 5 kilometers. My best race ever for sure. Scrolling through the results of the search "Joseph Fluckiger" brings up the following: 1993 texas state championship: http://www.uil.utexas.edu/athletics/archives/cross_country/playoff_text/93at_bcc.html 1999 BYU Rex Lee Memorial Run: http://www.runnercard.com/Results/1999/RexLee/RES-MEN.TXT 2004, Tripple threat: http://www.redtrailracing.com/TTT2004_final.html 2006: Venice triathalon http://www.altavistasports.com/results/2006results/venicetriathlon090206.html