I work in the same building that had the shrink i got sent to eons ago. Maybe that's why i'm ready to have a god damned break down.
My brother called asking if i knew anyone i could suggest for virus/malware removal. This further demonstrates how little he knows me.
Give me enough time and i can fix something. Put me on the spot in a production environment and i'm apparently useless.
I can't have anything that resembles a stable relationship. Then again, people turn to me for advice on how to handle friends/family/work.
I enjoy reading. I've not read more than 20 pages at a time in a book since spring.
Writing my random thoughts is one of my favorite past times. This blog is rather sparse.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Joyeux Noel
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424205/
This was a film I had been meaning to watch since i first heard about it. WWI and trench warfare have been a fascination of mine for a couple years. I'd heard/read about stories like this but to see a film so well done was breath taking.
You witness the French, Scottish (representing the British), and German POV as events unfold. The addition of a love story that didn't have the "forced" feel that I've experienced in the past wasn't as annoying as i thought it would be. More often than not, a love story gets thrown into films based heavily on history that wind up coming up short on quality. Overall I can best describe this film in one word: powerful.
Highly recommended if WWI and trench warfare are of interest.
This was a film I had been meaning to watch since i first heard about it. WWI and trench warfare have been a fascination of mine for a couple years. I'd heard/read about stories like this but to see a film so well done was breath taking.
You witness the French, Scottish (representing the British), and German POV as events unfold. The addition of a love story that didn't have the "forced" feel that I've experienced in the past wasn't as annoying as i thought it would be. More often than not, a love story gets thrown into films based heavily on history that wind up coming up short on quality. Overall I can best describe this film in one word: powerful.
Highly recommended if WWI and trench warfare are of interest.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
The Spreadsheet Turns 30
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2338796,00.asp
Happy birthday spreadsheet!!!
Happy birthday spreadsheet!!!
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Cell phone follow up
I've fallen behind in my writings. My goal is to write something once a week. Why? There are all of 3 people that read this but that's not the point. I write because it feels good. Plain and simple.
In the past 2 months i've not been in a position to have my phone off anymore. My current job requires me to have my phone on 24/7 because of my on-call status. Irritating. I sampled what it felt like to have my phone off the other weekend while camping in Georgia. Phone died and i didn't charge it right away since i was with my friend/coworker. For the bulk of the day, i actually didn't have that weight in my left pocket like usual. It rarely rings. I rarely get txts/pages. Yet i'm constantly aware that it's there.
I used to believe that i could get by without my cell phone if need be. I've spent some idle time lately wondering if that's still true. If not for work, could i handle just walking away from my cell phone completely? Can i handle losing that level of attachment?
After much reflection i believe that i can still handle life without a cell (if not for that pesky job thingy). Those brief couple hours where my phone was dead while camping were nice. When my phone was in my tent, i never really felt awkward or even acknowledged that anything was different. It's not so much that i felt like i felt that my pocket felt "light" without it or even that i felt the absence of it. It's more that i just didn't even notice it either way.
I've since realized i tend to gravitate towards phones with a specific feel to them. They tend to be slightly heavier (not lead bricks but still). I like heavier phones because when they're in my pocket, i always know they're there. Perhaps i subconsciously want that style so that i'm always aware of my "tether" to society. I'm comfortable with them doing more and more but i'm hesitant to embrace anything especially light or small.
Perhaps i'm delusional but i'd like to think i'm still capable of "unplugging" at any given time. My biggest regret is that i can no longer go biking during the summer without it. It's always going to be there in my backpack while i'm trying to be carefree for a couple hours. My ears are always going to filter out background noise for my ringer...
...but nobody ever said i had to answer it when it rings though. :)
In the past 2 months i've not been in a position to have my phone off anymore. My current job requires me to have my phone on 24/7 because of my on-call status. Irritating. I sampled what it felt like to have my phone off the other weekend while camping in Georgia. Phone died and i didn't charge it right away since i was with my friend/coworker. For the bulk of the day, i actually didn't have that weight in my left pocket like usual. It rarely rings. I rarely get txts/pages. Yet i'm constantly aware that it's there.
I used to believe that i could get by without my cell phone if need be. I've spent some idle time lately wondering if that's still true. If not for work, could i handle just walking away from my cell phone completely? Can i handle losing that level of attachment?
After much reflection i believe that i can still handle life without a cell (if not for that pesky job thingy). Those brief couple hours where my phone was dead while camping were nice. When my phone was in my tent, i never really felt awkward or even acknowledged that anything was different. It's not so much that i felt like i felt that my pocket felt "light" without it or even that i felt the absence of it. It's more that i just didn't even notice it either way.
I've since realized i tend to gravitate towards phones with a specific feel to them. They tend to be slightly heavier (not lead bricks but still). I like heavier phones because when they're in my pocket, i always know they're there. Perhaps i subconsciously want that style so that i'm always aware of my "tether" to society. I'm comfortable with them doing more and more but i'm hesitant to embrace anything especially light or small.
Perhaps i'm delusional but i'd like to think i'm still capable of "unplugging" at any given time. My biggest regret is that i can no longer go biking during the summer without it. It's always going to be there in my backpack while i'm trying to be carefree for a couple hours. My ears are always going to filter out background noise for my ringer...
...but nobody ever said i had to answer it when it rings though. :)
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Camping
November 13-16, I got to go camping in Georgia at http://www.gastateparks.org/info/georgels/ for work. The owner of the client company footed the bill for us to fly there and go camping. Needless to say, this was an opportunity that i couldn't pass up.
Thurs night (fri morning technically) we arrived at 230am at the camp grounds. Lucky for us, it had rained that day and the tent leaked. That meant we had to set up our sleeping bags after drying off the floor of the tent. Fri all day it rained off and on. Sat the sun poked through and then the temp dropped that night to 38. Sun morning i couldn't wait to get home and shower and warm up.
Overall it was a very cool time despite the weather. Beautiful park and i'd love to go back there again. Food was amazing (low country boil, fried dough, and meals that made me fat).
Highlights:
-A sign in a parking lot that was yellow with black text, appx 3'x8' and read GUNS
-Sign that read "cold beer needs a good home"
-One owner calling the co-owner's girlfriends cat-dog "gator bait" when he saw it
-More signs for Evangelical and Baptist establishments than pawn shops (there were 4 pawn shops within 3 blocks)
-Camping for the first time (sleeping bag, tent, no air mattress)
-Canoing for the first time
Isn't crazy how you can need a vacation after having a vacation?
Thurs night (fri morning technically) we arrived at 230am at the camp grounds. Lucky for us, it had rained that day and the tent leaked. That meant we had to set up our sleeping bags after drying off the floor of the tent. Fri all day it rained off and on. Sat the sun poked through and then the temp dropped that night to 38. Sun morning i couldn't wait to get home and shower and warm up.
Overall it was a very cool time despite the weather. Beautiful park and i'd love to go back there again. Food was amazing (low country boil, fried dough, and meals that made me fat).
Highlights:
-A sign in a parking lot that was yellow with black text, appx 3'x8' and read GUNS
-Sign that read "cold beer needs a good home"
-One owner calling the co-owner's girlfriends cat-dog "gator bait" when he saw it
-More signs for Evangelical and Baptist establishments than pawn shops (there were 4 pawn shops within 3 blocks)
-Camping for the first time (sleeping bag, tent, no air mattress)
-Canoing for the first time
Isn't crazy how you can need a vacation after having a vacation?
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Coming soon...
The weather is getting cold so now it's time to start writing!
-Research project I'm trying to volunteer to help with
-Cell phone follow up
-Adopted cultural identity
-Cooking!!!
-Research project I'm trying to volunteer to help with
-Cell phone follow up
-Adopted cultural identity
-Cooking!!!
Thursday, September 25, 2008
CentOS 4.7 - Install (follow up)
It worked!
[root@null ~]# yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment"
It took like 20 minutes do download and process the headers but it worked. Now all i have to do is type "startx" and i'm in. Hot damn. I must say though that the background that CentOS has by default in gnome is pretty fruity. Yikes. Seriously guys. Do you have to make your default backgrounds that ugly? I'm not exactly a fan of the Ubuntu brown theme but c'mon!
Off run updates and start the web server process (again).
[root@null ~]# yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment"
It took like 20 minutes do download and process the headers but it worked. Now all i have to do is type "startx" and i'm in. Hot damn. I must say though that the background that CentOS has by default in gnome is pretty fruity. Yikes. Seriously guys. Do you have to make your default backgrounds that ugly? I'm not exactly a fan of the Ubuntu brown theme but c'mon!
Off run updates and start the web server process (again).
CentOS 4.7 - Install
Oh great! I burned all 4 iso's just to find out that all i truly needed were the first two disks. Typical. I went through the same garbage with Fedora and look where it got me.
The real irritation about this install so far surrounds "xterm". It seems that the package which is on iso #2 is corrupt and thus your install won't get past that if you're using Gnome. I went through 3 downloads and burns of iso's before i figured this out. It seems as though that CentOS 4.7 i386 iso #2 on all of the mirrors have the same date/time stamp which implies they're all bad. I wondered if this is the same on the dvd version which is "newer" but then i don't have a dvd drive in that box so that's kind of a pointless issue for me.
My workaround has been pretty half assed and seems to be working for the moment. I did a bare bones stripped down install with no x server or gnome. In theory i could have installed everything and just unchecked the package for xterm in the x server packages but opted to go the stripped down route instead to prevent any further unknown issues like this. Well... that and i figured why the heck not see what it's like. :)
Install went fast and smooth which isn't much of a surprise. SSH was selected to be on right away and all i had to do was add a user account. Currently i'm SSH'ed into the machine and trying to install gnome via yum. OMG. YUM has been pulling down headers for the past 20 minutes and there doesn't seem to be any end in sight.
I've decided to let YUM do it's thing over night and hopefully it'll be done in the morning so i can begin the fun task of setting up Apache in my spare time while at work. If successful, this will be my most half assed install of any OS to date. I'm starting to get the hang of this!
The real irritation about this install so far surrounds "xterm". It seems that the package which is on iso #2 is corrupt and thus your install won't get past that if you're using Gnome. I went through 3 downloads and burns of iso's before i figured this out. It seems as though that CentOS 4.7 i386 iso #2 on all of the mirrors have the same date/time stamp which implies they're all bad. I wondered if this is the same on the dvd version which is "newer" but then i don't have a dvd drive in that box so that's kind of a pointless issue for me.
My workaround has been pretty half assed and seems to be working for the moment. I did a bare bones stripped down install with no x server or gnome. In theory i could have installed everything and just unchecked the package for xterm in the x server packages but opted to go the stripped down route instead to prevent any further unknown issues like this. Well... that and i figured why the heck not see what it's like. :)
Install went fast and smooth which isn't much of a surprise. SSH was selected to be on right away and all i had to do was add a user account. Currently i'm SSH'ed into the machine and trying to install gnome via yum. OMG. YUM has been pulling down headers for the past 20 minutes and there doesn't seem to be any end in sight.
I've decided to let YUM do it's thing over night and hopefully it'll be done in the morning so i can begin the fun task of setting up Apache in my spare time while at work. If successful, this will be my most half assed install of any OS to date. I'm starting to get the hang of this!
Friday, August 15, 2008
He's baaaaack!
Things have been quiet yet hectic here. Not much worth truly mentioning these days but the winds of change are blowing.
At this very moment i'm in the middle of installing Apache on my Ubuntu box. Why? Because this is one of my homework assignments. This is needed to start my learning process which will kick into full speed if/when i get a job that i've been working on.
Once i do a couple things with Apache here, i plan to blog about my accomplishments. I'm not exactly going to reinvent the wheel here but hopefully soon i'll have a better understanding and appreciation of the technologies involved.
More to come as i reemerge from my cave and come back to reality....
At this very moment i'm in the middle of installing Apache on my Ubuntu box. Why? Because this is one of my homework assignments. This is needed to start my learning process which will kick into full speed if/when i get a job that i've been working on.
Once i do a couple things with Apache here, i plan to blog about my accomplishments. I'm not exactly going to reinvent the wheel here but hopefully soon i'll have a better understanding and appreciation of the technologies involved.
More to come as i reemerge from my cave and come back to reality....
Friday, June 6, 2008
Playing with search terms in Google to get infected
Yet another EXCELLENT report from Alex Eckelberry. His blog is one of my personal favorites and a great way to stay informed.
Yes ladies and gentlemen, this is what i do all day instead of watching YouTube clips. Damn i need a job....
Yes ladies and gentlemen, this is what i do all day instead of watching YouTube clips. Damn i need a job....
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