May 12, 2014 by Daniel P. Clark

Limits and the Size of the Challenge

How big do you want to be?  How big is the problem you have to overcome?  What’s holding you back? The average person can’t see beyond their current self and the state that they’re in.  They believe life has given them what they’ve got, and that’s just how the cards fell.  So all in all…

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May 9, 2014 by Daniel P. Clark

My Experience Purchasing with Bitcoin

So I’ve made 4 purchases with Bitcoin.  I must say I am very well pleased with how well everything went. My first and most recent purchase were with Tigerdirect.  The first item I ordered was the “Wacom Intuos Pro Special Edition Touch Tablet and Pen”.   I simply clicked add to cart then proceeded to…

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May 8, 2014 by Daniel P. Clark

Habits, Patterns, and Will Power

We are all creatures of habit. Habit’s that we have chosen at some point and then ingrained into patterns that we follow. Unless something inhibits this pattern we typically are predictable; following our own patterns. Willpower: Willpower is a present tense measurement of the strength of following our conscience choice versus the default pattern of…

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May 8, 2014 by Daniel P. Clark

Ruby SSL with Twitter failed on cert OpenSSL issue on Windows 7

I’ve searched high and low for an answer to this. Many people have their own answers. None of them have worked for me. I’ll provide the situation. So I want to access twitter and upon using net:HTTP’s post function I get this error. SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv3 read server certificate B: certificate verify failed  Yes…

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May 3, 2014 by Daniel P. Clark

Sex is Sacred

This is an excerpt of commentary on an article by Luke Nix. For the original post click here Ravi Zacharias on Race and Homosexuality Daniel P. Clark Sex is sacred whether by gender or act. Man(kind) was created in God’s image and is sacred. Marriage is established by God and is sacred as well. It is symbolic…

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May 3, 2014 by Daniel P. Clark

Code Golf Challenge Unique Base 64 Incrementor

The goal is to write a script that will use your (Base 64) numbering system and never repeat any character within the string while incrementing. When you rollover a big number that jumps to the next place value you need to substitute it with the next unique in place… example (in Base 10) 0985,0986,0987 jumps…

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May 3, 2014 by Daniel P. Clark

Love Required?

♥ Love is coffee 😉 ♥ After she said she didn’t love her mother, I asked her if love had to be earned. She said yes. I told her that love can’t be earned, deserved, or required. Love by nature must be freely given to be genuine. She went on further to say “Then I…

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April 27, 2014 by Daniel P. Clark

/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432 with a Virtual “var” Folder

Well if you’re reading this you’ve likely run into a problem with accessing your postgresql DB.  Whatever your situation this information should be useful for you. In my case I’m using it with Rails.  And this is the Rails error I received: PG::ConnectionBad could not connect to server: No such file or directory Is the…

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November 1, 2013 by Daniel P. Clark

Leverage Your Mind

I find it interesting that people can compliment talents and abilities as if a person was born with them. It’s as if they, and their world view, don’t see it as a possibility for themselves. That ought not to be. In essence we are all created equal. The abilities one has is a compilation of…

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October 10, 2013 by Daniel P. Clark

God has a plan for me…

What does it mean when you say “God has a plan for me”? This could go many ways. The typical thing is to say whatever happens has to be God’s will. This would allow a lie though; because God is not the author of evil. He is the author of life (Acts 3:15), the author…

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