Last night I bought Jane a Mac with our stimulus package. We found a barely-used iMac 20" on Craigslist for $950. The same exact model goes for $1300 on Apple's web site.

¡Si, se puede!

Obama vs the Cryptkeeper

I'm in Redhat class. Its going well so far. Much of this is simple but we have some people in the class who clearly come from a Windows admin background so we're spending a lot of time talking about things Solaris, AIX or HPUX admins knew already. ;)

I've decided to learn Ruby using only the Internet and the O'Reilly Ruby Pocket Reference.

I'm in Redhat class. In 2006 I got my RHCE (for redhat version 4). This class is for version 5, its 4 days long and Friday is the exam day. They give you a computer with no OS loaded, and tell you to "go!". You have the documentation on the cd but no internet access. You have to load the OS, configure things like email, web, filesharing and ( Read more... )

Keeping my tires properly inflated has given me an almost 10% improvement in gas mileage over the last three tanks. I was always very lazy about it before ( Read more... )

A growing list of Things Younger Than John McCain

Includes "Nylon", "Cheerios" and "Both of Barack Obama's Parents"

Last night I won myself a seat into the Full House Holdem Jeep tournament... first prize is a Jeep Patriot. I'm estimating 100 or so people qualifying with about a 75% attendance, so I have a reasonably decent chance of winning. Better than the Lotto at least. ;) I think that game will be happening June 1st ( Read more... )

I'm not dead, I promise. :)

Here's a brief update from the last few weeks:

- Today marks 7 years since I packed a van with everything I own and arrived here in Georgia. I still miss Chicago a lot, but things here are good.

- It's official (well, pending the financial aid) but Jane is going back to school in July! She got accepted at The ( Read more... )

4000 dead. Someone made a collage of all the soldiers lost.


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I've upgraded my computer and its parts countless numbers of times, but I've been using the same mousepad since 1992.


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