Some 16 years ago I was an over the road truck driver. Several months ago, since my mother had passed away and my children have grown and moved out, I went on the road yet again.
After looking into many Transportation Companies, I decided to work with Swift Transportation out of Phoenix, Arizona. And lucky for me they had a terminal in Greer, S.C. (USA) that became my home terminal.
Trucking has changed very much since my last rodeo. But it is mostly for the better. The days of running paper log books is a thing of the past. And Jezebel, the voice of the Qualcomm communications device in my tractor is quite annoying most of the time to say the least. However, the Qualcomm is a great tool and helps me everyday. Getting messages from Planners, Finding directions and surfing the web are only a few of the things she provides.
I have started somewhat of a journal on Facebook. Listing in my status where I am each day. Also the places where I visit, truck stops I stay at and sometimes people I meet. Truck Driving is not the Glory Job of Yesterday! And motorist seem to have gotten stupider. What is more disturbing, the number of people I see who are paying more attention to the Smart Phone then the road. I see people even using laptops and tablets while driving down the road. This is a very dangerous thing to do! I can safely say, 90 out of 100 cars that pass me are not paying attention to driving. Maybe if the states would target more drivers for texting and driving fewer accidents would occur.
So today in this blog, I am at Pilot Travel center in Rotterdam, NY just off the I-90 Thruway. And if you want to read more.... http://facebook.com/lancaster.wade Please Don't Text And Drive.  

It was disturbing to find the music we stored on the Windowscollective was being sold. This was never the intention. But some rogue people will do anything to make a buck. So we removed all the music from our site. Sorry, it was meant to be listened to by our visitors. Now that they have no more access to music we payed for for our enjoiyment, they want to be some kind of friend. But we also removed the ability to leave messages on our blog, photo, and media pages. So there... take that.... and find your music somewhere else.

The Windowscollective has reached a ranking in Alexa at 760,769 worldwide. It has also been ranked in China at 105,156 !
It is an important milestone for us and you. We want to thank everyone for using our website and we hope to provide more content and useful features in the near future.
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/windowscollective.net

It came to a point, with spammers, that I had to remove some of the features we have here at the Windowscollective. I tried hard to manage our Forum, Wiki and Social Net.  But it seems that some idiots just can't follow rules!
It was nice we had a Wiki (mediawiki) where our users could help to build a place with information that was useful and informative for everyone. Perhaps some people did not know what a wiki was or how to use it. But that is a poor excuse. Because there was links to information on what the mission was and how to make useful entries. Nevertheless, most of what I saw was being entered was links to pill pushing, porn, on-line pharmacy sites for profit. Surly this was not what was intended for a Wiki. So... I deleted the entire thing. Gone!
As if that was not enough! the bastards thought the Social Net (ELGG) was to used for the same thing. certainly I found some people used it for what I consider a legit purpose. Roughly 3% had used it correctly. but the other 97% of users just thought it was a place to post links to pharmacy, porn and rouge websites. so... completely removed it too.
Now, our Simple machines forum had for several years been a place where users could share information about technical issues, offer technical help and post links to websites that offered tech assistance. It worked out quite well. But all of a sudden, there where 23,000 plus users who used it for.... same junk as the others. So after trying to edit or delete users who where abusing our features, I gave up and just removed the one I was spending so much time fighting. I really do not like to fight. A good argument is good. but I do not have the time to spend hours each week just trying to edit your useless post.
So being this is the Web Republic Of Net Citizens. And I really want to have links to other websites, why did i remove this? It is my belief that people had enough! Enough of YOU, the people who fill our inbox with your spam about some dating hook-up, pharmacy pushing scam and messages about some crap we do not want from you. And I'll be damn if I am going to let you use my website to promote junk I have no interest in at all.

Wanted to let everyone know of my inclusion into the Global Who's Who and my nomination in the Cambridge Who's Who. Thanks to all who recommended me.

I want to thank everyone who has commented on on my blog. Certainly I want to let all of you know I am receiving your comments. I want to invite you to also be my friend on FaceBook http://www.facebook.com/lancaster.wade and Twitter @lancsoft  Also we are on linkedin, myspace and wordpress.  Here at the Windowscollective we are The Web Republic Of Net Citizens.

Oh My Gosh.

 Come on everyone! You hear it all the time. SLASH. "Yeah, just go to somethingoranother.com   SLASH  thingamajiggy. for a new whatjamacallit.
 So just what is this slash thing after all? And why does it matter? That is a question I am going to answer. So sit back and hold on to your laptops, and we shall go to what it all means. And it really matters, at least to me to clarify it to the thousands of people I talked to that did not know.

Here it is;
 This is called a back slash  \ .
 This is called a forward slash   /  .
As can be seen, the back slash leans to the left. The forward slash leans to the right.
The back slash is normally used on the local machine (computer) to access the hard disk drive (hdd).
The forward slash is used to access the Internet or a network.

Ok. I feel better now.

During my time away from this blog, I was working to make the web republic of net citizens a better place. For me, it is nice to have access to a collection of links to everything I use on the Internet. This is the reason I created the Windowscollective. It was a selfish reason no doubt. However, it does provide for me everything "I" need. Nevertheless, each day I find I need to connect with more persons and sites. Therefore I keep updating my website. This Blog is a fine example of the tools one has available to simply express something.
 I hope that anyone whom Stumbleupon this blog learns that I wish to share this site. I welcome you to use it and if you need something added, send me an e-Mail with the link and I can add it.
 One of the things I like while surfing the net is listening to music. So it was natural I store music here and a way to listen. Here is the link so you may enjoy it too.

http://windowscollective.net/dn/pub/cd/player.html 

And if you have Windows Media Player, you can save the entire playlist to you PC. There are at the date of this blog 204 songs in this playlist. It is very small because it is only a list of where the music is stored. In addtion to, the list will be named "Wincol Stream"  in your playlist. It plays in streaming media. Enjoy it!

https://www.windowscollective.net/dn/pub/cd/wincol stream.wpl

I will continue to make this your site so you can enjoy it too.

Coming soon I will be a writer for The Examiner  http://examiner.com My works will be about home based business and how to set-up and maintain a website. I hope to add valuable information for our readers. You can visit me also on Facebook, Twitter, Myspace and Bloglines.

Created this new blog, to replace the old one that was deleted. Maybe I can post something useful here.