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Service Links in Drupal and Permissions

Using Service Links module in Drupal (for social bookmarking links and social network sharing) and having trouble with the user who needs to administer it being able to find the configuation panel?

Took me a while to find this so thought I’d share.  That user needs to have a role with the permissions for “administer site configuration”.

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Updated About Page

The title about says it all ;) .  I updated my about page today and added my CV.

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NIST and Software Assurance

The last two days I’ve spent at NIST attending the Software Assurance Forum.  This has been really enjoyable for me! I am visiting a long time friend in Gaithersburg, MD who works at NIST and organized the Static Analysis Tools Expo as part of the conference.  There has been a lot of development in the last few years on automating tools to check for various problems in code.  The goal is somewhat related to the formal methods being studied in the lab I worked with in grad school in that both are trying to show that programs are correct although the approach is very different.  Analysis of programs is done in different ways by different vendors – some on the source code, some on the executable.  The SATE project is looking at various tools to do empirical research on large data sets.  Seven or eight tool vendors participated this year using their tools and analysis of real world programs and associated CVEs.  There is some very exceptional work going on in this field.

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World Equestrian Games

33 Andalusian stallionMy friend and I have been planning this trip for five years since we first heard that the World Equestrian Games would be held in the United States.  Saturday, September 25th we went to the Opening Ceremonies.  They were fantastic.  I’m so glad I came.  I only wish I could stay for more of the events.

Yesterday, I did get to hear John Lyons and Pat Parelli speak.  I have admired Pat Parelli’s natural horsemanship method for many years.  I need to think how to apply the same concepts to dog training especially service dog training.  He is of course working with a prey species whereas dogs are a predator species.   But the same principles of Love, Language and Leadership hold with any species.  They just need to be applied in a different way.  I have always liked the idea of the seven games.  Anyway, I digress, this post is about traveling not dog training.

I left home on Friday and made a brief stop to visit a friend in Champaign, Illinois.  Saturday I drove on through Indiana and into Kentucky.  My friend and I haven’t gotten together in probably 7 years or so, maybe longer, so it was great to see her again!  We have known each other since we attended college together.

We’ve spent the last several days together taking in the World Equestrian Games and Lexington, KY.  It’s been great!

Today I leave to head further east.  I plan to stop wherever I stop and see whatever I see, but end up in the Washington, DC area in a couple days where I’ll visit another college friend and attend a workshop at NIST.

If you want to read more about the trip, check out the posts on Tamarr Memorial Fund blog.  They are written from Merlyn’s perspective mostly and are a lot more fun and informative.

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Glass Painting - Dragon Plate

Here’s a glass painting I made of a Dragon painted on a glass plate.

Dragon Plate

Dragon Plate

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Rich People Are Committed To Being Rich

Wealth File #3:

Rich people are committed to being rich.
Poor people want to be rich.

Most people give the universe mixed messages about what they want.  You will attract to you what you want, but if you don’t know what that is, neither will the universe.  You may think things like, “I want to be rich” but then think “Rich people are greedy.”  Or you may think “Being rich would be so much fun” but then think “Being rich means I’d have to work all the time, where’s the fun in that.”  Other thoughts that get in the way of wanting to be rich might include “But then I’d be in the highest tax bracket and give half of it to the government,”  “Then I’d have to understand investing and tax strategies and asset protection, that’s hard,”  “I’ll never know if people like me for me or for my money,” or “What if I make it and then lose it, I’ll really be a failure.”

The number one reason most people don’t get what they want is because they don’t know what they want. Rich people are totally clear that they want wealth. They are fully committed to creating wealth and unwavering in their desire.  As long as it’s legal, moral and ethical they will do whatever it takes to have wealth.

The number one reason people don’t get what they want is that they don’t know what they want.

You always get what you want – what you subconsciously want, not what you say you want.  If you are not achieving the wealth you say you desire, there’s a good chance it’s because, first, you don’t really want it, or second, you’re not willing to do what it takes to create it.

There are three levels of wanting. “I want to be rich” is the first level.  Wanting alone doesn’t necessarily lead to having. Wealth does not come from merely wanting it. Billions of people want to be rich, relatively few are.

The second level of wanting is “I choose to be rich.” Choosing is a much stronger energy and goes with being responsible for creating your reality.  Choosing entails deciding or killing of all other alternatives.

The third level of wanting is “I commit to being rich.”  The word commit means “to devote oneself unreservedly.”  This is the warriors way holding nothing back, giving 100% of everything you’ve got to achieving wealth for as long as it takes. “I will be rich or I will die trying.”

Try saying that to yourself, “I commit to being rich.” Does it feel empowering? Or maybe daunting?

Getting rich takes focus, courage, knowledge, expertise, 100 percent of your effort, a never give-up attitude, and a rich mind-set.

Wealth Principle

If you are fully, totally and truly committed to creating wealth, you probably won’t.

Once you do commit, however, the universe will bend over backwards to help you. The universe will assist you, guide you, support you and even perform miracles for you.  But first you have to commit!  W. H. Murray wrote the following during one of the first Himalayan expeditions:

Until one is committed, there is hesitance the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness.  Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splended plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too.  A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.

Write a short paragraph on exactly why creating wealth is important to you.  Be specific.

Meet with someone who is willing to support you.  Tell that person you want to invoke the power of commitment for the purpose of creating greater success. Look that person in they eye and repeat the following statement: “I, _________(your name), do hereby commit to becoming a millionaire or more by _________(date).”

Tell your partner to say, “I believe in you.”

Then you say, “Thank you.”

If you feel a twinge of fear then you are on your way.  If it doesn’t bother you, then you’re still in the mode of not being willing to do whatever it takes, or don’t think you need to do any of this stuff.  Your way has gotten you exactly where you are right now.

I commit to being rich.

I have a millionaire mind.

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If You Are Not Committed, You Probably Won’t

Wealth Principle: If you are fully, totally and truly committed to creating wealth, you probably won’t.

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Most People Don’t Know What They Want

The number one reason most people don’t get what they want is because they don’t know what they want.

- T. Harv Eker

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Rich People Are Committed To Being Rich

Wealth File #3: Rich people are committed to being rich.  Poor people want to be rich.

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You Get What You Want To Get

You get what you truly want to get. If you want to get rich, your goal has to be rich.

- T. Harv Eker

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