I’ve been a touch busy with a couple of projects lately. I wiped my desktop and put the first clean install on since 2001. I’m pretty sure that I’ve been running the same install of Windows since it was first released. It’s all clean and pretty, and it runs FAST now that I don’t have five years worth of hidden background services lurking in the memory. (Also, I finally enabled my dual channel RAM)

Here’s my pretty new desktop. Wallpaper is from the Little Gamers download section:

I’ve also been working on an Open Office database project for a friend lately. Take it from me, Open Office is total junk. I really wish that Gobe Productive had taken off. It was such a better product, and it was so cheap that everyone could afford a copy. The license was so flexible that you only had to buy one copy. The company literally gave permission for a user to install the package on all of his personal computers, and one business machine. (P.S. My name is on the side of the box with a quote from the review I wrote)

I had a phone interview this morning for a Network Operations spot. It’s with a fantastic company, and I’m looking forward to the in-person interview. Hopefully that will be late this week or early next. The only slight downside is that it’s a 24×7 netops center. That means shift work, my friends. I may wind up working third shift for the first six months or so, but I don’t really mind.

Here’s a picture of where I’ll be working if I get the job…

It looks like Norad!