The punishing sound of the alarm clock punches through the dreams of warm beaches and sunshine. Those soft jabs in the ribs my spouse loves to bestow on an early Saturday morning have my feet hitting the floor. Some time…
I’d like to continue helping…
I have truly grown to love and enjoy Archery. The surprising feeling of the arrow driving a perfect circle into the X is glorious. I never imagined 8 months ago that I would even consider shooting spots as anything more…
Insanity from a new JOAD dad
So, I’m a father of 3 sons. Twin six year olds, and a fourteen year old honest to goodness moppy read headed gangling fourteen year old. You would think that having three boys would never be an issue, but then…
Hurricane Isabelle Design Project
Students in my CIS 420 Wide Area Networking (WAN) course have completed a network design for a large scale communications solution for a disaster riddled region. This project was done by undergraduate students as part of a course. The class name has…
Not a normal legislation and hunting rights essay
I’m not a political scientist but I do have a hypothesis. I think that there is a cultural war brewing between the rural populations and the urbanized populations. This is especially important to understand if you hunt or use open…
An implementation of the SIGITE model curriculum
Kamali, R., Liles, S., Winer, C., Jiang, K., and Nicolai, B. 2005. “An implementation of the SIGITE model curriculum“. In Proceedings of the 6th Conference on information Technology Education (Newark, NJ, USA, October 20 – 22, 2005). SIGITE ’05. ACM…
Information Assurance Domains & Defining Software Assurance
Information assurance and security are a compilation of two other domains. The first domain is systems assurance. Systems assurance is the practice of hardening operating systems from known threats, analyzing and auditing hardware and devices for known threats, and remediating…
The Jeep CJ Debacle
This is my sad and triumphant story about my CJ rebuild project. It is chronicled on the CJOffroad.com web forum. The guys on the web forum have been a great help in providing information. The link directly to the original…
Omaha (or, how I terrorized the IBA)
Everybody was complaining. Oh the horror of rain and cold. I get up roll out of bed around 8AM and realize this is what it means to be done with the school year. Finals are done and today is a…
A vendor neutral local area networking course
Liles, Samuel “A vendor neutral local area networking course†American Society for Engineering Education 2005 Illinois-Indiana Sectional Conference (Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA April 1-2, 2005)
A vendor neutral wide area networking course
Liles, Samuel “A vendor neutral wide area networking course†American Society for Engineering Education 2005 Illinois-Indiana Sectional Conference (Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA April 1-2, 2005)
Distance Education II Collaboration With Industry: Utilizing Software To Build Community and Foster Communication
Liles, Samuel, “Distance Education II Collaboration With Industry: Utilizing Software To Build Community and Foster Communicationâ€, ASEE CIEC 2005, February 24-25, 2005
Holiday greeting 2003
There is the feeling of the chilling coolness in the breeze outside my window. Sitting in my home with my children eagerly awaiting Christmas morning I wonder what new toys Santa will bring me too. Sitting plucking earnestly at the…
Sometimes you just can
September 8, 2003 Sometimes you just can’t stop whacking yourself with whips and chains long enough to remember why you started whacking yourself in the first place. I quit working in the corrections bureau in Washington State so I could…
BMW Blues
August 29, 2003 Gnashing and bashing the riders of any particular bike serves no purpose beyond creating hard feelings among a great group of enthusiasts. There is no greater supporter of a brand of bike than the guy who has…