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Needing more focus…

David — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 02:40:51 +0000

I’ve come to the conclusion that I need to become more focused in some areas of my life. I want to be able to contribute to open-source projects, including Ubuntu, but I realized that I don’t know enough about any single project to really dive in and work on the code. I need to find a single project to contribute (codewise) to.

I sometimes feel that there’s this technological void in my life, with a desire to work on a project of some sort. The big problem is that I have diverse interests: user experience, information security, embedded systems/robotics, etc. I know it’s a ridiculous statement to make, but even at 25, I feel like I’m behind where I’d like to be in my life.

How do you all find your niche, and satisfy that urge? Anyone got a favorite project that needs some love?

RHCE

David — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:33:57 +0000

Generally speaking, I try not to push my ego on here too much. It’s big enough on its own. However, I feel like this is a pretty major accomplishment for myself, and I haven’t posted in a while, so I thought I’d throw it up there. As of this past Friday, I am now a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)™! This is without a doubt the hardest test I’ve taken, as a “practical” (hands-on) exam. No multiple-choice guessing here.

I’ll probably lean towards working on an LPIC-1 certification next.

Life Changes

David — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 01:23:14 +0000

A couple of updates, since it’s been a while since I’ve posted anything meaningful.

On March 2nd, I will be starting a new job as an IT System Support Specialist III at Kennesaw State University. Typical of a government job, the title is rather meaningless. To be specific, I will be supporting a variety of Linux and Mac OS X servers for the university and the platforms running on them (Drupal, Moodle, and other technologies.) The production servers are RHEL and the development is on CentOS.

Of course, every good turn comes with a down turn. On Wednesday, I went to my doctor because of a little bit of abdominal pain for 2 days. Because of the location of the pain, and a bit of an elevated white blood cell count, he sent me over to the ER to get an abdominal CT. Turns out that my appendix was “slightly inflamed”. Long story short, about 10PM that night I was in the OR having my appendix removed. It may be a common procedure, but the pain is still pretty decent. Hopefully it will be gone before I have to start the new job. And hopefully I won’t have to do heavy lifting in the first couple of weeks of my new job.