I just read about a skydiver who landed with a dying instructor on his back. You heard me. The instructor had a heart attack while performing the jump. The person jumping was a FIRST TIMER! I have never skydived and probably never will (even though I’ve talked about the possibility), but I can’t imagine being in this man’s place. I would have probably freaked and not known what to do. Fortunately, the first-time diver still managed to land safely.

Yesterday, Information Week reported that a Fannie Mae contractor was indicted for writing a logic bomb that would have wiped 4,000 servers had it not been caught by another employee. Feel free to read the entire story; the one part that really interested me is the following:

“Makwana had been terminated as a Fannie Mae contractor on Oct. 24, around 1 or 1:30 p.m., the affidavit says, but his network access was not terminated until late that evening. ” (emphasis added)

Lesson to be learned

When you fire a techie, you need to make sure that you cut all access to their files/network drives, etc right away.

This afternoon, I tried logging into Facebook and I received the following error message. Normally, when large sites are scheduled to go down for maintenance, they inform their users. I’m not sure what happened here.

I’m a bit slow on reporting this (the bill passed in 2007), but it still needs to be made known. I just received a letter in the mail about it from a pro-family group, in case you’re wondering how I found out.

It is Senate Bill 777, a.k.a., the pro-”you pick your gender” bill. Essentially, pro-LGBT groups have argued that it is not politically correct for a boy to be called a boy or for a girl to be called a girl. If a boy feels like he’s a girl, he has the “right” to be called a girl and vice-versa. It tries to remove gender from California public school policy. Seriously, Los Angeles and California are way more screwed up than I remember growing up there. It’s full wackos with these crazy notions.

Read the full bill for more information.

Late last night, Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints died in his sleep. It is reported that his death was incidental to his advanced age. For a full report, please visit the Newsroom of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. For many, he grew to be a favorite apostle and was full of wisdom and humility. He will be missed.

Congratulations to Barack Obama for winning the presidential race last night. While I do not agree with many of his views, it is time that Republicans, Democrats, and Independents alike congratulate him on a hard-fought win.

Now, it is time for Obama to step up, become the leader that America needs, and unify this country. After an extremely divisive election, the healing process must occur; people must realize that America is America because we are willing to move on with life and support the candidates that the people have elected. God bless him and the other elected officials who just won last night.

According to a TechRepublic release, BYU’s undergraduate information systems (IS) program is rated in the top 10 nationwide. For further information, please download the PDf document.

Source: TechRepublic.com

If you’re a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, you might think this is funny.

If you haven’t already heard about Prop 8 in California, then you need to. The California Supreme Court overturned a Prop 22 which stated that marriage is between a man and a woman. Anyway, the people of California were infuriated that the Supreme Court overturned this person-backed legislature, so this time they’re going to the polls to ammend this statement into the CA constitution.

And before you say it, this is not anti-gay rights. It is PRO-marriage. Seriously. That’s all it is. People would have you believe otherwise, but that’s because they have their own agenda. Since I no longer live in CA, I can’t vote for it, but I have been financially supporting it. I encourage all my readers and visitors to do the same.

A few weeks ago, I read that Mayor Bloomberg is trying to run for a third term (even though it’s not allowed). According to this MSNBC article:

Norman Siegel, a well-known civil liberties lawyer, said Wednesday that he has received calls from several people urging him to file a lawsuit to block the move, including one political candidate whose campaign plans would be disrupted by such a move.

“The legal question is, can you undo a public referendum by legislative fiat?” Siegel said, promising “a hard look” at a legal challenge.

In the case of prop 22, this is what happened. We cannot let it happen again. Please donate TODAY and support Prop 8.

For more info, please visit www.protectmarriage.com.

Donate at https://www.icontribute.us/protectmarriage/initiative/hqsidebar.