About this image: Waiting for dinner on last night together.

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• CMTC, Hohenfels, Germany - A few pictures taken while I was an Observer-Controller (O/C) at the Combat Maneuver Training Center (CMTC). I have embarrassingly few pictures from these two years of my Army career.
• eBay auction photos - Images of stuff I am trying to sell. Supports eBay auctions or other online ads.
• Friends and Family - Images of Sims family and friends.
• Front Page Images - Images used for the main image on the front page.
• Images of the Moment - A collection of unorganized and uncaptioned photos, mostly from my motorcycle trips in Europe with Laura.
• Kuwait deployment - Images from Bob's deployment to Kuwait.
• Motorcycles - Various pictures from our motorcycle experiences.
• Travel - Our travel pictures from around the world.

Bob Sims

Here are some of the interests in my life:

• US Army - There is a lot they didn't tell me about when I signed on with this outfit.
• Networking and web applications - Computers and stuff.
• Family - Stories about Laura, Jack, and the rest.
• Motorcycling - I've been on two wheels for a long time and over a lot of different places.

Recent articles:

Bookmarklet: SUSS URL Shortener - I spent some of my innovation time today writing a JavaScript bookmarklet for those who need an easy, one-click method of accessing the SUSS URL Shortening Service (CAC and .mil access only). The purpose of this bookmarklet is to submit the URL of the page currently being viewed automatically to SUSS, providing a 35 character SUSS branded link that redirects to the original hyperlink. (posted 07.31.2009 Comment?)

Bookmarklet: Enable Links in AKO Webmail - Brandon Morris, a colleague of mine on the Army's 53 Listserv inspired me to write a JavaScript bookmarklet to enhance the functionality of Army Knowledge Online (AKO) Webmail. (posted 06.04.2009 Comment?)

Social Media Links - For a number of inadequate reasons, I haven't updated this site in a disappointingly long time. One of these days, I'll get around to migrating all of the content here over to a more featured, friendly, and open platform. In the meantime, here are a few links to some of the places where I share some of my time and thoughts. (posted 05.11.2009 Comment?)

Vintage Fly-In - This last weekend, Jack and I attended a vintage aircraft fly-in at Kichheim unter Teck, Germany. (posted 09.10.2007 Comment?)

Camping in the Lauterbrunnen Valley, Switzerland - We took Jack camping for the first time over the Labor Day weekend this year in a beautiful part of Switzerland. (posted 09.04.2007 Comment?)

Recent links:

• MySpace Profile - I am way too old for this. (458 hits)
• Kick-Paddle-Breathe - An experimental blog detailing our international adoption adventure. (688 hits)
• Google Map to Sims Haus - Directions to Karl Str 24, 73770 Denkendorf, Germany (625 hits)
• Clarktoberfest - Blog of our friends Andrew and Blythe, Americans in Vaihingen. (923 hits)
• Sims on Signal - A blog by a fellow MAJ Sims here at Camp Arifjan - a journal for MAJ Jeff Sims during his deployment to Kuwait/Iraq - 2005/6. (969 hits)
• Brookins Consulting - Graham Brookins is a talented web developer who taught me most of what I know about eZ publish, PHP, and the like. (1060 hits)
• Heath's Portal - Family portal for my friend and co-worker MAJ Heath Carr. (741 hits)
• Riders for Health - Some of you may have read the interesting article in the 07 Nov "Time" magazine about former US racer Randy Mamola's effort to bring health care to rural Africa using specially-designed motorcycle/sidecar rigs. It struck me as being perhaps one of the most practical and benificial uses of motorcycles ever. (923 hits)
• Desert Voice - The U.S. Army's Desert Voice magazine, sponsored by Third Army/Coalition Forces Land Component Command (CFLCC), provides information for forward deployed servicemembers in Kuwait. (905 hits)
• Software Engineering for Internet Applications - The full text of Philip Greenspun's Internet Application Workbook. This is a rich and current guide for web application development. I've tried to implement many of the lessons from this text in my development of this site and my other contributions to the open source community. (692 hits)

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