Listening: Gary Numan
Doing: Rediscovering my phone guy roots, programming a Nortel Option 11C, relearning X11, and managing a VOIP implementation that’s dragged on for months.
Reading: Getting Things Done, by David Allen. Simple, common-sense organizational tips I’ve read over and over for years and had forgotten. GTD is much more Palm-friendly than Franklin Covey’s time [...]
I really enjoy working with Linux servers and dislike Windows. I’ve had a great time working for start-up companies that couldn’t afford Windows licenses, and did a lot of cool things with free software.
At this point in my life, however, I can’t afford to work for a company that can’t afford Windows.
I finally broke down and bought some “necessities”.
2 CD binders that hold 288 CDs each, to prevent my son from toppling our CD tower on top of himself.
1 gig CF card for my Nikon D70. Now I can start shooting in raw mode, and put my 256MB card back in my MP3 player.
Work is hellish, [...]
I ended up staying late to work, waiting for a conference room to open up so I could do some work in there. I had a nice IM with the only ex- that I’m still in contact with, despite my best efforts in the past. Despite some of the retrospective guilt gotten from [...]
I ran into an old fraternity brother of mine after work. I hadn’t seen him in 10 years, and his wife, who I went out with before they got together was meeting him after work. It was a weird situation frought with afterimages of jealousy, immaturity, pain, avoidance, and remorse - after all, we were [...]
I’m contemplating another network change. I was thinking about setting up a Linux box again as a router/VPN concentrator. If I did that, one thing I was thinking about doing was putting my wireless AP in a DMZ, and opening it up. My laptop, which uses the wireless encrypts everything as a matter of [...]
I got a call from a telecom vendor - I’d bought two of their phone switches for clients. They had a client who needed someone to install their system, and was I available? Sure, I could fit them in after hours, especially since most switch cutovers happen after hours anyway.
They’re a pretty cool <a href=http://www.beachblanketbabylon.com>client</a>, [...]
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