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One of the biggest pains in the butt in my recently unemployed life was constantly re-proving myself, at various levels, to potential employers. This took the form of questions like: “describe how the linux init process works” “what does chkconfig do?” “how would you troubleshoot if you could not get to a webserver?” “what is […]

Wim pointed me to some pics of linuxfest where myself and T&C were caught on film. Oh no! They found me, now I have to hide!

A few months ago a buddy of mine said he wanted a “new computer”. He’s not a real techy guy so extracting what he actually wanted was a bit hard. “Something that plays games” is pretty ambiguous, so it ended up coming down to how much he wanted to spend “I donno” and what he

This weekend was a good weekend so far. Mostly relaxing, an early morning this morning to do some taxi duty, other than that I had a couple of folks over for a last minute Battlestar Galactica-athon. Other than some issues with playing the DVDs with the episodes burnt in my DVD player (which normally plays

Wish I had taken before and after pics, because I’m quite proud. After we got back from the (very fun btw, thanks Jason!) LAN party yesterday I figured that since we were having my folks over for dinner tonight, and we had 2 less computers and monitors in the office anyway, why not do the

Along with such stand-bys as requiring the goat at midnight GMT not PST when debugging SCSI issues, another one must state: If you lay off all your linux experts you will have to hire them back as a contractor at double their previous salary to have them help you fix the issues they were dealing

Got a bunch of random stuff done over the last few days around the house. First of all, finally found my laptop bag with daytimer, passport, etc all in there. whew had me worried there for a while. Turns out I had left it at work at some point just before we got kicked out

So a couple of days after I got happy pills for my wonky shoulder, the wonky shoulder is all fine and dandy. I noticed this morning after I forgot to take said happy pills that I had my full range of movement again. Trippy. Either the pills worked really well or it only had a

More proof that good things come in twos, I finally dragged myself down to the walk in clinic to find out why my arm has had gimpyness (the medical term) for the last week or so when put in certain positions. Yes, I know, bring on the flood of “doctor it hurts when I do

Well, I’m now unemployed. Due to “re-structuring” at work myself and six of my coworkers are no longer employed. However, I’m refusing to look at this as a negative, instead it’s a huge opportunity to find a new and better job, or career, or create something myself. I honestly have no idea where I’m going.