10 Months, Regrets, Juggling Skills

caylin turned 10 months old on sunday. hard to believe she’ll be a year old in 2 months. really, really hard to believe. * i’m convinced we are raising a hellion. this girl is absolutely crazy. * she eats like 3 dinners. she eats whenever brett and i get home…

Shell Scripting & Crontab 101

the other day, a friend asked me for help with a simple shell script that was making her angry. and it got me thinking–there are so many people who use linux or unix and don’t use it to anywhere near its full potential. there are so many things…

Official Red Hatter

this was by far the hardest goal i’ve set for myself so far… pretty much ever. getting my RHCSA and RHCE in one week. i’ve wanted to do this since college. since before i even got into security. basically since i knew what red hat was, i knew…

Survived Day One

i made it through my first day of red hat training. for those of you unfamiliar with the subject, this is the course i’m taking all week. i am SHOCKED that it went by so quickly today, really. i don’t usually do well in classrooms. in terms of…

Sometimes I Wonder...

what would’ve happened if i had never joined partyapp.com, waaay back when, in 2004? an offshoot of campusblender.com and partyincollege.com, partyapp.com consumed far too many hours of my life, but it also SERIOUSLY changed it for the better. i just think it’s crazy how…

Moving Right Along

today has been productive so far. i will say that much. i got more signatures. see, they give us this check in sheet. it has like.. 13 things on it. each “thing” is a department and/or person you have to find, give them one of your 823943 forms filled…

Tech. Support Fail

last week at work, some of the network requirements changed in order to have your laptop registered. i forget what exactly changed, but that’s beside the point. the point is: i got kicked off for being non-compliant (except i was), and my MAC address got blocked. awesome. this was…