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Argh!

My pirate name is:

Calico Davy Flint

Often indecisive, you can't even choose a favorite color. You're apt to follow wherever the wind blows you, just like Calico Jack Rackham, your namesake. Like the rock flint, you're hard and sharp. But, also like flint, you're easily chipped, and sparky. Arr!

Get your own pirate name from piratequiz.com.
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Road Trip!

Heading off toIndianapolis Motor Speedway for the Indianapolis Moto GP races starting Thursday. Riding a 14 year old Buell out there, 660 miles or so one way. Hmmm. Should be interesting to say the least. Will have pics and stories later.

I can has cake?

Monday, the 18th, was the 15th anniversary of Debian GNU/Linux so in honor of the occasion I stopped by the supermarket and picked up a cake.
The woman in the bakery section asked "Is Debian a girl or a boy?"
We went with the blue icing.

Another Philly Icon gone

Robert Hazard, Philly Rock n Roll icon and all-around hero to a lot of Philly kids my age, died recently. He was 59. I can still recall driving around in the back of my brother's car with Pat and Pat, my two best buds at the time, when I was too young to drive but too old to be home on a Friday night. We would blast "Escalator of Life" and "Change Reaction" on the Pep Boys cassette deck duct-taped into the dash of my Mom's old Plymouth Valiant, cruising around the Deptford Mall parking lot. Somehow we thought loud music, an old four-door, and rude suggestions loudly made would impress the girls. Sometimes, we were right.
He'll be missed, he was a Philly original and the scene in the City of Brotherly love owes him a debt of gratitude, as does Cyndi Lauper for writing "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" :) .

Frist Post

First post to Wordpress on the new blog. I finally got tired of running multiple boxes 24x7 at the house, especially in the summertime without central air - the heat in the office was starting to get unbearable, as was the electric bill and the wife-annoyance factor.
I chose Rapid Xen and signed up for a VPS on a Debian server running as a Xen instance in their Chicago facility.
Excellent hosting provider so far (all of two days, so hey, not a lot to base it on). The sign-up was painless, I got an email the next day letting me know the server was up and running and giving me the IP address to go log in and get running.
All it took after that was a quick change in DNS and an apt-get to install the software, and here it is.
I suppose one of these days I'll cutomize the theme a little and make it a bit more "personal".

I'm officially turning into my Dad. I said the following to my daughter today: "Be careful you'll poke out your eye."
I probably turned into him a long time ago, but this is one of the first times I stopped and realized it.
Of course, it was good advice to give, even if the two year old probably didn't comprehend exactly what "poking out your eye" means, she stopped swinging around her belt.
And promptly started pelting me with Goldfish.

I can officially say it's been a loooong time since I used Windows. Out of habit I hit ctrl-alt-right arrow on the keyboard to switch to a different workspace, since I had just kicked off a long running job and wanted to open another ssh session to work on another project, and the screen on my laptop went sideways. It was early on a Sunday AM and I hadn't had a second cup of coffee, so I was a little more surprised and confused than I normally would be at such an event. I tried ctrl-alt-left arrow and it flipped it the other way. Ctrl-alt-down flipped it upside down, so I tried the only remaining combo: ctrl-alt-up, which made everything hunky-dory again.
Sigh.
I suppose if I am ever forced to use Windows Vespa I'm going to lose what's left of my mind.

You WILL respect my Authori-tay!

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Hey what can I say, it's a cute pic. First B-day party at the house Saturday was a rousing success. More pics to come.

I decided last week to leave the current job and join Mediaguide as a Linux Admin. Slightly sucky commute, but cool people. Should make everyone in the family happier knowing I like what I'm doing for a living.

Long time no blog. Things are busy. Evie is going on 9 months old now and developing her own personality in leaps and bounds each day. She isn't talking per se but I swear when I walked in the door last week she looked up at me, waved, and said "hi da-da".
At least that's what it sounded like to me, and since she smiled and waved when she did it, I'll swear that's what happened until the day I die. :)
I also managed to get a certification under my belt - HP-UX CSA. When I look back at my 10 year or so career in IT it's simply amazing I never even sat for a certification exam. It was never a real priority for anyone I worked for - as long as I knew what I was doing and got the job done they didn't care.
Not possessing any certifications probably hurt when it came time to look for another job, but then again I've switched jobs just once in the last 6 years.
Maybe I could have made more money by hopping jobs once or twice within that time span, but the economy for IT in the Philly area pretty much sucked up until last year, and even now the pay range doesn't approach what I would have been making in Chicago right now. Besides, being happy and enjoying your place of work has a certain "priceless" quality.
We'll see what the near future brings with regards to that last statement.