If you stay online long enough, you’re bound to find convergences in ideas where you weren’t looking for them.
Here’s where my net trail led me:
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I thought I’d add a quick explanation for the incredible slow-down in my posting rate. It wasn’t really Summer vacation, but it might as well have been, as far as most of my usual activities go. The reason? I decided to look for a new network position (well you see, there was this acquisition at my previous employer…).
The Summer months were time for brushing up on interview and resume’ production skills, active job seeking, followed by starting a new job and moving. Top that off with breaking in my new cold-forged titanium third leg, and training my newest pet, the yak Matilda, and I’ve got a schedule that barely leaves time for sleeping. (Just kidding about the last two items, of course.)
Anyway — new city, new house, new job. Quite crazy. Along with this comes a slight change of tack in terms of my future networking direction. I had been hedging my bets between going into more depth on general networking, or branching out into Voice networking. Now, because of the needs of my employer, it looks like I’ll be doing as much additional work with VoIP (and Unified Communications) as possible. I’ve started reading the CVoice text from ciscopress (so far, not bad, not great), and am trying to finish up on a LAN and wireless project for new work so I can start hitting the CCVP. I’ll see how that develops over the next few months.
No time to post, so for now, I’ll point to fantastic article on a great site that hits the target of usefulness and power-IOS-user-hackery that I aspire to reach myself. Here is Enhancing the IOS User Interface .
In a weird sort of coincidence, I googled ’session 15′ today, and the first result that came up was a page called ‘Session 15. Planetary Nebulae.’ Even stranger, the page is from a meeting that took place in Austin, TX, where I am based. I copied the text from the result:
Session 15. Planetary Nebulae
| Session 15. Planetary Nebulae. Display, Wednesday, January 6, 1999, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall 1. 15.01 Detection of New Planetary Nebulae from A Complete … www.aas.org/publications/baas/v30n4/aas193/S150.htm - 4k - |
I’ve upgraded to the new release of wordpress (”ella”) and updated my theme as well. The theme I’m using now is much simpler to work with than k2, and given that my priority was to be up and running without first knowing all the ins and outs of wordpress/css/php and so on, this is a better fit. I’ll continue tinkering with appearance and functionality and slowly continue to get more up to speed on the web dev side of things. I had been looking into a good Linux html/php editor (briefly tested bluefish, quanta, screem, nvu) but I’m going to give WP’s 2.1 built-in editor a shot. For one thing, the auto-save feature is, believe or not, something new in this release that I was really missing.
A few things are looking better on the site now. I uninstalled then re-installed K2, and a few glaring problems were fixed.
Clearly, I need to figure out this K2 theme and scheme. Page not found? I’m not sure where that’s coming from.
Humph. Never fear. Got a new year, forgot to eat my lucky foods, but torpedoes be damned. I’ll have something useful up here, pronto quick (relatively speaking) and banish the errors before you can read the wikipedia entry on Gödel’s incompleteness theorem and write a rebuttal in Esperanto. Warning: quick (grammatically speaking ‘quickly’) may be in cosmological time.
New year’s resolution: get cracking, study, write up some summaries.