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This past Saturday I attended the 53rd annual World Series of Drag Racing at Cordova Drag Park in Cordova, IL. While I was there I had an awesome time even with the rain that we received pre-race. It stopped raining in time for the races so I broke out the digital camera and took some video and pictures of the event. Sorry about the lousy titles but its kind of hard to remember everything with little to no sleep. You can view the video from the event here and the pictures are available in the gallery.

Enjoy!

Beau Huber

I’ve been busy over the last few weeks working on moving my site to a new server. It’s now hosted at DreamHost so it should be a lot faster. In addition to the move of servers I am now able to make my photo gallery public, if you would like to see any of the photos I’ve taken click on the Gallery link on the left hand side of this page.

If you’ve been following Online Grades you will also notice it has a new website and updated look. With the move of servers for my site I was also able to move the Online Grades site, www.onlinegrades.org, to DreamHost. With the move I was also able to get the demo working again after quite some time of having an outdated demo.

If you encounter any problems with the sites please let me know.

--Beau Huber

I've been rather busy lately and haven't had the chance to post anything new. If you want to take a look at what stories I'm reading, look up, and see what I have dugg. While I have a few minutes I'm going to rant and rave about printing web pages.

Currently I'm working o­n the next version of WiltonIowa.org with a brand new community section. The community news portion of the site will be semi-AJAX powered. I know its kind of overrated but why not. I hope to have it o­n the production server by the end of March, stay tuned for updates.

Right now I am working o­n a printable version of the articles. Printable versions of anything pose a challenge as there are a lot of things you need to make sure are right. I'm going to cover a few of them right now.

-- Make sure it looks good o­n paper, I know this may sound obvious but hey. (Head o­n over to WiltonIowa.org and click print preview in your web browser, it doesn't even look the same, see what I mean.)
-- Should you change all of your links into something else? When someone prints a page with links o­n it what do they get?

BAD:
Normal View -- Some Link Here
Print View -- Some Link Here

GOOD:
Normal View -- Some Link Here
Print View -- Some Link Here[1]

[1] http://www.site_url.tld/some_link_here.html

Now when the user prints the article they will know what the links really are, and not just the underlined words "Some Link Here".

-- Should we include our sites logo? I think this o­ne is more of a personal choice than a requirement, but helpful never the less.
-- If your site has ads should you include them? NO! It looks bad and wastes paper, have a heart folks, kill the ads o­n the printable pages.
-- Make sure to include the author, article title, date published, and original url of the article.

If you have any feedback or suggestions I would love to hear them.

Beau

Happy New Year!

Have a Happy and Safe 2006!

From all of us to all of you, have a safe and Merry Christmas.

UPDATE: I have it working now, we need an SSL Cert.

I have already put too much time into this, but I refuse to give up until I make this work.If you have any tips on setting up WPA using RADIUS on a Cisco 1200 series access point, please share them in our Forums. We have a Windows Server 2003 that has RADIUS installed on it we would like to authenticate our wireless clients via that (WPA) on a Cisco 1200 series access point. Now I have the access point setup and secured using WPA, but the problem is I cannot authenticate!I will continue to work on this until it works, but in the mean time if you have anything that might help please post it in the forums, registration not required but welcome!

Thanks,Beau Huber

With the high price of gas, I have been tracking miles per gallon, if you are interested you can view at http://huber-home.org/ford.html.

I will try and update this page about o­nce a month.

UPDATE: Ok so I haven't updated that page once a month but it does get updated.

Bea

If you are interested in what my new vehicle looks like you can check out some pictures here, check out the pictures in the gallery.

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