The Blog of Texas-Fire.com Founder Kirke Phillips

Goodbye 2007, you kinda sucked…..

December 30th, 2007

I am very glad that 2007 is coming to an end. Even though that puts me one year closer to death, 2007 was enough of a doozy year to make me at least curiously wonder if death might not be less harsh. Each of us will have a few years in there that aren’t so great. Sometimes there are years that we did things to ourselves, sometimes ‘they’ did things to us, sometimes we just continuously find ourselves in the wrong place at the wrong time. For me, 2007 was chock full of all of that and then some. The year started out just plain crappy, then went to a really bland place, and then ended on a frenzied high that has left me tired but optimistic. Read More »

My Blog Log

December 05th, 2007

First off; from a firefighters perspective that is a really childish name. How am I supposed to take that serious? Really, why didn’t you just call it ‘Blog Deuce’, that would have been easier for me not to giggle about. What? Oh; right. Got it. Sorry ’bout that…. Read More »

Making Your Own Community Site (Part One)

November 24th, 2007

So my boss says my blogs are boring. I prefer ‘informative’. Plus, these ‘informative’ blogs seem to keep my phone ringing a lot less and people less angry with me. Always remember Bradley, “they have my keys, and they are organized!” Comments prove you read….

Back to the information. As mentioned before, I recently had to turn down some work that left me feeling guilty. In an effort to educate myself more on what was available and usable, I came across several IAFF sites which are using a common platform. Read More »

Texas-Fire Disinfected !

November 11th, 2007

The thrill is gone ! If you count not being able to sleep, open sores, and runny stools as thrilling. Read More »

Texas-Fire Gets Staph, Guitar Hero Gets Punked…

November 08th, 2007

With all the Staph running rampant in Central Texas, it was really only a matter of time before the site got infected. It is widely known that the message board never washes it’s hands. Anytime you have a website that is driven by a database, you will get database errors. I guess it is kinda impossible to get database errors with no database huh ? Makes sense… Read More »

New Links, Updated Site, Texas-Fire Updates

November 01st, 2007

Happy Halloween !

I tried to make it exactly one month between posts; turns out I can’t even be lazy right. Oh Well.

The Texas-Fire site has received a ‘back-end’ switcheroo of sorts in preparation for a new design and layout (which is still a long way off). I finished up the first part today and it is up and live. Read More »