Mics

-It is a very hot summer in San Diego this year. The hottest summer that I have seen last 14 years. I don't know when it is going to cool off. Although today was cooler than last few days. We usually get very few hot days during summer, usually it is nice and pleasant ocean breeze blows. Any way as long as we can go the beach and pools and enjoy the swimming without any restriction like some countries we have to be grateful.

-There is Informationweek 500 magazine in U.S. that nominates different industries for their innovating use of technology ever year. This year our organization was among 15 government agencies that won Informationweek 500 award. The reason for wining was the outcome of the project that I as lead developer have been working on in last three years. They had to send two people to go to the ceremony and receive the award. Usually managers, CIOs or CEOs go these ceremony and receive the award but my boss and our CIO decided that a Lieutenant that was involved in the process of nomination and I have to go. I asked my manager to go himself because I knew he liked to go but he insisted that I go. Any way the ceremony was last week and we went to ceremony and received the award. It was a big deal and lots of big shots were over there from different organizations very famous companies like Dell, Microsoft, etc. I was honored to be picked as a person to go to the ceremony! I hope this helps with my promotion…

-There is a lot going on in the world these days, I was very upset about the incident with U.S. embassy in Libya. I was so sad that ambassador and 3 diplomats were killed. They had nothing to do with making that stupid movie. Why they paid for something that they did not do. I have seen the trailer of the movie. It is very stupid and disrespectful, these kind of movies should not be made for any prophet or any religion but something that Muslim fundamentalists don't understand is freedom of speech in western countries is a right for everyone and by constitution you cannot get that right away from any one. If you say bad things about a person and that person loses his job because of your negative, wrong comments, he can come after you and suit you but that cannot apply to a person that lived long time ago and was a prophet. I wish these malicious people that make these kind of movies and are disrespectful would get stopped somehow but it is not that easy in a country like U.S. to stop them from expressing what they think or say about a religion, president or so on. All religions have been disrespected or criticized every now and then, but what reaction the followers of the religion should show? Ignore it? Calmly condom it? or show violence? What would work better? I think just ignore it. If something, or someone is holly or respectful, no comment, movie or gesture would change that holiness. I wish hardliner religious people would get that!!