For the last year I have been the only person in my department working to research, setup, maintain and rollout a thin-client computing solution based on Taratella (solaris & linux based installs) and Windows 2K Terminal Services. Today our project went before the budget team and was shot down for this year's budget. This leaves me without a project with the exception of producing a summary document for the next time the project is proposed. The search is now on for additional projects or the next job.

For those who have stumbled upon this page while looking at my resume, feel free to look around - I have articles posted in the archives section. This is hosted on my hobby server which I have colocated and remotely maintain.

Technical stuff... this box has too much crap running on it, and unfortunately there's really no solution currently other than spending $788 to get yet another box for part of it. I don't understand how stuff ran as well as it did previously, then when I get rid of part of the problem, the situation gets worse... I know I'll have a drive failure within the next couple months at the rate we're going.. been here done this before. Meanwhile, my work laptop smells as if it's burning up from the inside out. It's probably down to it's last legs too, although I'm waiting for a "real" problem before I send it in for repairs. If there's too small of a problem, pieces will be replaced, but the main problem of having a laptop with bad air circulation will still exist and the new parts will burn out quickly just like the current ones (ie: like my hard drive with the bad sectors which causes the occasional blue screen of death)

While looking back on today there were a few points which can even override the previous post. My project at work is a neat thing about thin-client computing. Thin-client computing is kinda like going back to the days of dumb terminals on everyone's desk and having a big central computer - except we know how to do it better now :) ..so as of today, we've got tons of funding, other groups involved, the backing of management and job security for the next year. So work-wise, it was a good day.

It's rare that I can think of a time when I've ever decided not to be a friend with someone. I mean - it takes a long time to get to the point of being a "friend" so why would you want to let things get in the way of it? Of course there's also the line between being taken advantage of and "being a friend".. sometimes people push the envelope too far and just need to be cut off. ..and such in the case today. Although now I can get on with fixing what was broken, collecting debts without having to worry about hurting the friendship and move on. There's nothing worse than those who use others in the name of friendship. It uses excessive amounts of time and effort to try to preserve the friendship when it's really non existant to begin with.

Weekend's over - back to work. Talk about a busy weekend... Friday night was spent preparing for a garage sale Saturday. Saturday morning started at 5am.. garage sale was busy and successful until about noon - packed up at about 2. After the sale and clean up, went to lunch at about 3... and as we're sitting down to eat, my parents call - they're curious if I'd be open for them to drop by. (This is REALLY unusual for my parents to just up and decide to come down).. so after lunch, went home and cleaned up the place which was a disaster from preparing for the garage sale. Parents came in.. was a quiet Saturday night and Sunday morning. ..and then after breakfast they left as quickly as they arrived. The rest of today was spent at the beach, then with Dal and Krys, then fixing someone's computer, taking Java for a walk, catching up on e-mail and such... been one long weekend.

I'm amused by this - not necessarly in a bad way though.
In the time since I've posted the new version of the site, I've actually been having people join the chat below. I'm sure some of this is regarding DALnet since this site is hosted on the same IP block, but curious how many drop by because of snooping for that, randomly finding it by name or how many actually come here because of me. Drop a comment and let me know - I'm curious.

Out with the old crappy scripts and sites I've written and in with the new and improved site which will contain the occasional article, thought of the day or various other content. I probably won't update this daily, but I figure what the hell, might as well post my thoughts since everyone else does.