Sunday, November 4, 2012
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Video, video, video...
Well I do apologize for my blog for being down. The server it was on was being moved physically to a new location, so it needed time for relocation. Though I doubt many people actually bother to follow my sea of links, anyway :-P
“Vote the Humans Out” – Hank for Congress has a new campaign ad out
“Aurora” – a song “dedicated to those who lost their lives and were affected by the tragedy in Aurora, Colorado,” recorded by Hans Zimmer
The Aurora shooting, while tragic, was also a way for the area ER departments to make use of their mass trauma practice and training
Technology just keeps evolving, and it’s becoming evermore part of our daily lives. ArsTechnica gives us a review of 35 years of personal computers. At the same time, there’s a profile of 30 years of the Commodore 64.
In older news, a power blackout in India cut power to approximately 600 million people in several states. Power was restored a day or two later, the FBI goes digital, Microsoft released a new Email service, and cats still love lasers.
And finally, a poetic look at exploration.
“Vote the Humans Out” – Hank for Congress has a new campaign ad out
“Aurora” – a song “dedicated to those who lost their lives and were affected by the tragedy in Aurora, Colorado,” recorded by Hans Zimmer
The Aurora shooting, while tragic, was also a way for the area ER departments to make use of their mass trauma practice and training
Technology just keeps evolving, and it’s becoming evermore part of our daily lives. ArsTechnica gives us a review of 35 years of personal computers. At the same time, there’s a profile of 30 years of the Commodore 64.
In older news, a power blackout in India cut power to approximately 600 million people in several states. Power was restored a day or two later, the FBI goes digital, Microsoft released a new Email service, and cats still love lasers.
And finally, a poetic look at exploration.
Saturday, August 4, 2012
Logistics of the reverse-war
The months-long planning and logistical “war” of recovering equipment from Afghanistan
AT&T one of the first to have plans for shutting off its 2G network
The US government is at its smallest ratio of employees to population in 45 years
NASA awards $1.1 billion to Boeing, SpaceX, and Sierra Nevada Corporation for manned space travel projects
The Wilderness, an Abstruse Goose comic
An interesting look into how AT&T has created its next-day Olympics ads featuring imagery from less than 24 hours before
AT&T one of the first to have plans for shutting off its 2G network
The US government is at its smallest ratio of employees to population in 45 years
NASA awards $1.1 billion to Boeing, SpaceX, and Sierra Nevada Corporation for manned space travel projects
The Wilderness, an Abstruse Goose comic
An interesting look into how AT&T has created its next-day Olympics ads featuring imagery from less than 24 hours before
Back from vacation, RSS backlog galore!
Chasing “ghost trains” around Britain
Riding along with the Mars rover drivers
The story about how the social media website Reddit became a quick-paced source of information after the Aurora, Colorado shooting which has thus far tragically claimed the lives of 12 people
The intersection of life-long friends and stable relationships – a story of 4 roommates in NYC
Steeplechase – the coolest Olympic event you’ve (probably) never heard of
Riding along with the Mars rover drivers
The story about how the social media website Reddit became a quick-paced source of information after the Aurora, Colorado shooting which has thus far tragically claimed the lives of 12 people
The intersection of life-long friends and stable relationships – a story of 4 roommates in NYC
Steeplechase – the coolest Olympic event you’ve (probably) never heard of
Saturday, July 21, 2012
Legos, military bases, Sesame Street, oh my!
Some of the idiocracy of Mitt Romney’s tax situation…
From one of the greatest toys probably ever made, a look inside the LEGO vault of every set ever made
While negotiations between Consolidated Edison and the local utility worker union continue, managers and other staff have been pulled in to perform break/fix and maintenance duties
The author of Encyclopedia Brown, has died. Donald Sobol was 87.
The Pentagon’s new generation of secret military bases, taking over for the larger well-known bases
As the NBC/Microsoft partnership resulting in MSNBC comes to an end, here’s a look back at some coverage from their very first day 16 years ago.
The Sesame Street team has caught onto viral videos, and made a parody of Call Me Maybe
The Justice Department apparently sues an anonymous ISP which sued over the National Security Letter it received
From one of the greatest toys probably ever made, a look inside the LEGO vault of every set ever made
While negotiations between Consolidated Edison and the local utility worker union continue, managers and other staff have been pulled in to perform break/fix and maintenance duties
The author of Encyclopedia Brown, has died. Donald Sobol was 87.
The Pentagon’s new generation of secret military bases, taking over for the larger well-known bases
As the NBC/Microsoft partnership resulting in MSNBC comes to an end, here’s a look back at some coverage from their very first day 16 years ago.
The Sesame Street team has caught onto viral videos, and made a parody of Call Me Maybe
The Justice Department apparently sues an anonymous ISP which sued over the National Security Letter it received
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Hot Weather and More Storms
The nuts and bolts of high-speed rail
As if it needed being said, Matt Smith is a pretty awesome guy.
LCD Soundsystem played their last show in April of last year, but why exactly did they quit?
The Firefly cast and crew celebrate their 10th anniversary in a special panel at the San Diego Comic-Con
An article highlights the life and career of the oldest currently-serving priest in New York City
The Washington Metro is now successfully connected from the middle of the East and West Falls Church stations through to Tysons, after the last track span is put into place.
Why is it hard to make friends over 30?
NSA Mimics Google, Pisses Off Senate
As if it needed being said, Matt Smith is a pretty awesome guy.
LCD Soundsystem played their last show in April of last year, but why exactly did they quit?
The Firefly cast and crew celebrate their 10th anniversary in a special panel at the San Diego Comic-Con
An article highlights the life and career of the oldest currently-serving priest in New York City
The Washington Metro is now successfully connected from the middle of the East and West Falls Church stations through to Tysons, after the last track span is put into place.
Why is it hard to make friends over 30?
NSA Mimics Google, Pisses Off Senate
Monday, July 16, 2012
Futuristic Robots and Archaic Satellites
The Men Who Stare at Computers
A look inside the Olympic Village and what happens…after hours.
50 years of satellite communication technology has come. Coincidentally, it’s been 50 years since the Starfish Prime nuclear test
While Amtrak has proposed a $151 billion plan for the Northeast Corridor, one blogger has ideas for how to do HSR at 10% of the cost.
Navigating the new health care reform law and the general US healthcare system, one patient at a time.
The story behind porting the Windows NT kernel to ARM as a replacement for Windows CE and Windows Embedded
Ozo, a short film about a monkey, and Robbie, a short film about a futuristic NASA robot
A look inside the Olympic Village and what happens…after hours.
50 years of satellite communication technology has come. Coincidentally, it’s been 50 years since the Starfish Prime nuclear test
While Amtrak has proposed a $151 billion plan for the Northeast Corridor, one blogger has ideas for how to do HSR at 10% of the cost.
Navigating the new health care reform law and the general US healthcare system, one patient at a time.
The story behind porting the Windows NT kernel to ARM as a replacement for Windows CE and Windows Embedded
Ozo, a short film about a monkey, and Robbie, a short film about a futuristic NASA robot
Saturday, July 14, 2012
Changing for the (better?) future
Boeing has announced an order of 75 737-MAX airplanes for Air Lease Corporation, for a worth of about $7.2 billion. Their new 787 Dreamliner appears to be a hit, and has the looks to prove it.
DC/NOVA continues to clean up after the derecho from June 29th, and attention turns to the power services that exist in the area with primarily above-ground lines, as well as failures in the area 911 system.
Amtrak released an updated proposal for high speed rail in the North East Corridor, with tentative completion by the 2040’s. Included in the proposal is an underground expansion to Union Station in DC. Here’s how it could spur a “golden age” in the Northeast.
The end of an era: BBC World Service moves to a new home
Virginia will apparently be ending the 2012 budget year with a surplus, but there may be some strings attached.
DC/NOVA continues to clean up after the derecho from June 29th, and attention turns to the power services that exist in the area with primarily above-ground lines, as well as failures in the area 911 system.
Amtrak released an updated proposal for high speed rail in the North East Corridor, with tentative completion by the 2040’s. Included in the proposal is an underground expansion to Union Station in DC. Here’s how it could spur a “golden age” in the Northeast.
The end of an era: BBC World Service moves to a new home
Virginia will apparently be ending the 2012 budget year with a surplus, but there may be some strings attached.
Saturday, July 7, 2012
Flashback and Catch-up
The aftermath of the June 29th derecho continues, as power companies are still repairing connections (July 1, previous) to customers. NOAA summarizes the storm.
The California High Speed Rail (HSR) line is getting off the ground.
Colorado has some mean wildfires, and they’ve done lots of damage this year.
Using GPS to visualize routes around the world is oddly fascinating
Growth of the Loudoun/Fairfax area in the past 30-40 years has been dramatic, and NASA has the aerial photography to back it up.
Well, it appears the Higgs Boson is the real deal. However, what if the technology required to discover it were in the continental United States?
The economy is recovering…sort of…I guess?
Cisco’s proposal for cloud management of home routers backfired, and they backpedaled after the attempt.
Not to flash too far to the back, but this video of all Shuttle launches is quite fantastic.
The California High Speed Rail (HSR) line is getting off the ground.
Colorado has some mean wildfires, and they’ve done lots of damage this year.
Using GPS to visualize routes around the world is oddly fascinating
Growth of the Loudoun/Fairfax area in the past 30-40 years has been dramatic, and NASA has the aerial photography to back it up.
Well, it appears the Higgs Boson is the real deal. However, what if the technology required to discover it were in the continental United States?
The economy is recovering…sort of…I guess?
Cisco’s proposal for cloud management of home routers backfired, and they backpedaled after the attempt.
Not to flash too far to the back, but this video of all Shuttle launches is quite fantastic.
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
No evidence of mermaids, says US government
It appears Apple is utilizing some higher-end IBM and Oracle servers in their North Carolina datacenter
A playground for adults!
Nuclear reactors restart after the Fukushima incident, accompanied by protests
Government still attempts to regulate some parts of cybersecurity, no matter how flawed the bill might be
Governments and utilities attempt to clean up after the June 29th derecho stormed through the eastern US leaving millions without power
A perspective on thin clients and why they should die. Not, however, what I think about them.
Otters and Benedict Cumberbatch, hedgehogs and Martin Freeman
You can rest assured, there is no evidence of mermaids. We promise.
A playground for adults!
Nuclear reactors restart after the Fukushima incident, accompanied by protests
Government still attempts to regulate some parts of cybersecurity, no matter how flawed the bill might be
Governments and utilities attempt to clean up after the June 29th derecho stormed through the eastern US leaving millions without power
A perspective on thin clients and why they should die. Not, however, what I think about them.
Otters and Benedict Cumberbatch, hedgehogs and Martin Freeman
You can rest assured, there is no evidence of mermaids. We promise.
Sunday, July 1, 2012
Derecho Hits the DMV area
A Story about WWII that China Would Like You to Know
Characters from The Muppets banter while cameras are tested – hilarity ensues
Pennsylvania Avenue from 1903 has items that look both oddly similar and different than it does today
The Affordable Care Act appears to be a tax, not a mandate, and will expand health coverage of Americans
Apparently disabling user accounts in Active Directory doesn’t disable their access to Exchange mail accounts. Who knew?
A giant derecho hits the DC/Maryland/Virginia area during record-breaking heat, leaving approximately 2M without power and some without clean water. Restoration could take days, according to Dominion, Pepco, and others. It also causes problems with the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud.
Characters from The Muppets banter while cameras are tested – hilarity ensues
Pennsylvania Avenue from 1903 has items that look both oddly similar and different than it does today
The Affordable Care Act appears to be a tax, not a mandate, and will expand health coverage of Americans
Apparently disabling user accounts in Active Directory doesn’t disable their access to Exchange mail accounts. Who knew?
A giant derecho hits the DC/Maryland/Virginia area during record-breaking heat, leaving approximately 2M without power and some without clean water. Restoration could take days, according to Dominion, Pepco, and others. It also causes problems with the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud.
Thursday, June 28, 2012
A Commentary on Public Education (and more)
Bill Gates talks candidly about the state of the US economic system and gives his thoughts
Atari celebrates its 40th year as a company
For the second time, the Internet falls for a hoax; the “Destination Time” in the first Back to the Future movie on the DeLorean’s display panel was modified to show a different date, and the picture quickly went viral
How Winamp fell from being arguably the greatest MP3 player to just another in the pack of music programs
The rise and fall of the France-wide web – another victim of the Internet revolution
A new Army data network starts to be deployed, sadly too late to catch most of the current wars
Poor ol’ RIM loses $518 million in Q1 2013 and starts cutting 5,000 jobs; they’re on my bankruptcy/death watchlist, are they on yours?
Atari celebrates its 40th year as a company
For the second time, the Internet falls for a hoax; the “Destination Time” in the first Back to the Future movie on the DeLorean’s display panel was modified to show a different date, and the picture quickly went viral
How Winamp fell from being arguably the greatest MP3 player to just another in the pack of music programs
The rise and fall of the France-wide web – another victim of the Internet revolution
A new Army data network starts to be deployed, sadly too late to catch most of the current wars
Poor ol’ RIM loses $518 million in Q1 2013 and starts cutting 5,000 jobs; they’re on my bankruptcy/death watchlist, are they on yours?
Monday, June 25, 2012
"We had no choice but we got to cut it off...and then come down on rockets"
This really is some of the greatest advertising for a government agency I’ve ever seen. NASA recently released a video about the “seven minutes of terror,” referring to the 7 minutes between the time the Curiosity rover, set to land on Mars this upcoming August 5th, hits the top of the planet’s atmosphere, and the time in which the rover has successfully (or not) landed on the surface – all before its engineers on Earth know what has happened to it. As opposed to the previous rovers, Opportunity, Spirit, and Sojourner, which were no larger than the size of an oversized RC toy, Curiosity is the size of a small SUV and weighs 1,654 pounds. This weight and size means that it’s too large to land on the surface using the traditional “airbag” approach, and so the engineers were required to reinvent the approach. The following video released from NASA shows the descent they plan on taking to the planet’s surface, first relying on the heat shield to keep the rover safe. Next, they plan on using a supersonic parachute in order to slow the rover down to just 100m/s. After using the parachute, a sky crane will be deployed at approximately 7.5 meters above the surface; the sky crane system will slow to a halt, and the rover will be gently lowered to the surface of the planet. The descent stage then flies away to a crash landing site, and the rover is theoretically ready to begin exploring the surface of the planet.
Check the following video for some of the engineers talking about the Entry, Descent, and Landing stages, and prepare to be amazed.
Check the following video for some of the engineers talking about the Entry, Descent, and Landing stages, and prepare to be amazed.
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Sorry MSNBC, you can't outsmart death (yet)
An article earlier today was posted on the MSNBC website claiming that “coffee lovers less likely to die." Last I checked, every single person on the planet that has lived is subject to the scepter of death and not even coffee drinkers are immune. What they want to say is that drinking coffee is associated with lowering the risks that can lead to death, which is completely different. Sorry guys, try again next time!
Thursday, April 5, 2012
FFmpeg Invalid Option directpred
While attempting to use ffmpeg to convert mp4 video, it appears that there's a fun little bug when attempting to use the preset files in /usr/local/share/ffmpeg in order to determine the encoding speed. However, when passing -vpre normal (or any of the other presets in the folder, this error occurs:
Unrecognized option 'directpred'
/usr/local/share/ffmpeg/libx264-normal.ffpreset: Invalid option or argument: 'directpred=3', parsed as 'directpred' = '3'
There doesn't appear to be much online, but this mentions it's been a problem with the git repository for just over a month now. Time to figure this thing out!
EDIT 01-07-2012 - I didn't find a direct solution to this error, but I believe I found a workaround. Specifying -preset instead of -vpre seems to have fixed the issue. I haven't been working on it for about a month now though, so I may be mistaken. Take with a grain of salt, but I hope it helps.
Unrecognized option 'directpred'
/usr/local/share/ffmpeg/libx264-normal.ffpreset: Invalid option or argument: 'directpred=3', parsed as 'directpred' = '3'
There doesn't appear to be much online, but this mentions it's been a problem with the git repository for just over a month now. Time to figure this thing out!
EDIT 01-07-2012 - I didn't find a direct solution to this error, but I believe I found a workaround. Specifying -preset instead of -vpre seems to have fixed the issue. I haven't been working on it for about a month now though, so I may be mistaken. Take with a grain of salt, but I hope it helps.
Thursday, March 1, 2012
March 1
Well, it's the end of the winter quarter and I've had a tiny bit of time to read some articles. The three below are a couple that I've had in my browser for a short while, but are really pretty good.
- True Innovation [nytimes.com]
- How Red Hat killed its core product—and became a billion-dollar business [arstechnica.com]
- No Pulse: How Doctors Reinvented The Human Heart [popsci.com]
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Good Technology Articles (and others)
It’s been quite a little while since I did this, but the number of links I have open in Opera is starting to get large enough I think there’s something wrong with me. So, with that, have some more interesting links relating in some way to technology!
- Meet Bill Gates, the Man Who Changed Open Source Software [wired.com]
- Video Tutorials of Everything [networkingprogramming.com]
- After ‘The Wire’ ended, actress Sonja Sohn couldn’t leave Baltimore’s troubled streets behind [washingtonpost.com]
- The Great Disk Drive in the Sky: How Web giants store big—and we mean big—data [arstechnica.com]
- Remembering the "long distance warrior" who took down Ma Bell [arstechnica.com]
- As Anonymous protests, Internet drowns in inaccurate anti-ACTA arguments [arstechnica.com]
Thursday, January 19, 2012
And with 2012, we have the end of the world!
Ok, maybe not. Actually, definitely not; the odds of anything ending the world sometime this year are slimmer than the chances you’ll see a cow wearing roller skates while taking a plane flight across the Atlantic.
But don’t forget Iran!
Anyway, I had a really good break. We had a total of three weeks this year instead of the regular two, so that was a nice little change (I think; I’m at the point where the extra week gave me worse sleeping habits that will stick around for longer than I’d like). We got back here the second week of January, and started classes that Monday. It was interesting getting back to class since we’d been off for the three weeks, so people either didn’t want to work or just forgot most of the things from before the break. It was a week partially wasted, but not completely since it still served a decent use for catching up.
2011…what a year. I won’t bore you with all the details, so I’ll just list some of the highlights I get from looking at my calendar (ok maybe there are a few boring details in here, so you can skip to whatever you’d like):
January – I continued working at ITS Desktop Support, and was in the beginning ballroom dancing class, which I didn’t completely mind (fancy that!). I was enrolled as well in Systems Administration I which was certainly a challenge, but well worth it with the professor.
February – I officially left ITS Desktop Support after an extended review process, and started working at RIT Research Computing. I’ve been working there ever since, and have learned a ton about Linux video streaming, creation, and distribution.
March – The new quarter started, and I took Computer Crime, Information Security Policies, as well as a couple others. RIT Players put on Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog which was fantastic and which I went to see twice.
April – I performed updates for the TJ Sun systems over the week of the 15th-22nd, which was one of my last major functions as a TJ Sysadmin. I’ve continued to “consult” since then, but nothing of that size (reinstalling about 10 servers and essentially recreating the entire lab’s filesystem structure, as well as Sun Ray servers). O.A.R. came to RIT, and I went to go see that with Shawn. One of the first concerts I’ve ever been to, I remember having a pretty good time.
May – I was involved in my first Imagine RIT with the RC department. It was certainly an experience, one that I hope to help improve my public speaking skills with next year. I started working at IOMAXIS for my first official RIT co-op and met fantastic people and learned a ton.
June – I went to the wedding of two awesome friends, and traveled to St. Louis to my cousin’s wedding as well! It was a good month :) After the weddings I went off for a week to the Arlington Diocese WorkCamp, where ~400 high school teens worked on houses to help rebuild and give residents more safe and secure accommodations.
July – I went to the DC fireworks for the 4th of July; as usual, they were pretty spectacular. I had a slight bit of mouth surgery later in the month to get rid of a slight nagging problem, and that was July.
August – Starting off the month at the beach is great! I went down to North Carolina again with Youth Apostles to enjoy the sand/sun and had a fun time. I finished up at work for the summer, and started preparing to go back to school
September – Started my third year of college back up here at RIT. I continued working at RC, and took Network Services (one heck of a class). I started going to some SPARSA meetings, and started semi-regularly going to RIT events like evening movies, various student activities, etc. Also on my agenda was getting more involved in the Newman parish up here.
October – I managed to get out of the RIT area and headed off to Letchworth with people from Newman. Other than continuing to actually become social and go to various events and BarCamp, It was a pretty uninteresting month.
November – I saw the 13th Animation Show of Shows when it was at RIT – this was a *fantastic* event of videos from large and small animators. After that I started getting more involved in Mrow.org services, so now I’ve pretty much rebuilt many of the services run under the domain on two servers in my apartment. For Thanksgiving break I stopped in Baltimore for a couple of days to visit friends and had a good time exploring the city and having Faidleys crab cakes!
December – We started winter quarter and I took SysAdmin II, Advanced Routing/Switching, Perl for SysAdmins, and Human Resource Management. The course load is pretty intense, but the knowledge gain is worth it. In about the third week of classes I was given the offer to join a fraternity, which was something I never intended on or even planned for when starting college. Over break I met up with a bunch of TJ kids and helped organize the 2nd SAAA meet-up.
Over the course of the year, I had the chance to partake in activities and things that have helped me to become a bit of a more social person while still maintaining my personal ideals, beliefs, and work ethics. This definitely helped to increase the closeness of some of my friendships, which have been great to me and are wonderful things that I certainly couldn’t live without.
The year definitely ended on a high note, and I hope that 2012 increases in awesomeness and continues to deliver unexpected results for the better. Here’s to a fun school, interesting ideas, and absolutely awesome friends! 2012, here we come.
But don’t forget Iran!
Anyway, I had a really good break. We had a total of three weeks this year instead of the regular two, so that was a nice little change (I think; I’m at the point where the extra week gave me worse sleeping habits that will stick around for longer than I’d like). We got back here the second week of January, and started classes that Monday. It was interesting getting back to class since we’d been off for the three weeks, so people either didn’t want to work or just forgot most of the things from before the break. It was a week partially wasted, but not completely since it still served a decent use for catching up.
2011…what a year. I won’t bore you with all the details, so I’ll just list some of the highlights I get from looking at my calendar (ok maybe there are a few boring details in here, so you can skip to whatever you’d like):
January – I continued working at ITS Desktop Support, and was in the beginning ballroom dancing class, which I didn’t completely mind (fancy that!). I was enrolled as well in Systems Administration I which was certainly a challenge, but well worth it with the professor.
February – I officially left ITS Desktop Support after an extended review process, and started working at RIT Research Computing. I’ve been working there ever since, and have learned a ton about Linux video streaming, creation, and distribution.
March – The new quarter started, and I took Computer Crime, Information Security Policies, as well as a couple others. RIT Players put on Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog which was fantastic and which I went to see twice.
April – I performed updates for the TJ Sun systems over the week of the 15th-22nd, which was one of my last major functions as a TJ Sysadmin. I’ve continued to “consult” since then, but nothing of that size (reinstalling about 10 servers and essentially recreating the entire lab’s filesystem structure, as well as Sun Ray servers). O.A.R. came to RIT, and I went to go see that with Shawn. One of the first concerts I’ve ever been to, I remember having a pretty good time.
May – I was involved in my first Imagine RIT with the RC department. It was certainly an experience, one that I hope to help improve my public speaking skills with next year. I started working at IOMAXIS for my first official RIT co-op and met fantastic people and learned a ton.
June – I went to the wedding of two awesome friends, and traveled to St. Louis to my cousin’s wedding as well! It was a good month :) After the weddings I went off for a week to the Arlington Diocese WorkCamp, where ~400 high school teens worked on houses to help rebuild and give residents more safe and secure accommodations.
July – I went to the DC fireworks for the 4th of July; as usual, they were pretty spectacular. I had a slight bit of mouth surgery later in the month to get rid of a slight nagging problem, and that was July.
August – Starting off the month at the beach is great! I went down to North Carolina again with Youth Apostles to enjoy the sand/sun and had a fun time. I finished up at work for the summer, and started preparing to go back to school
September – Started my third year of college back up here at RIT. I continued working at RC, and took Network Services (one heck of a class). I started going to some SPARSA meetings, and started semi-regularly going to RIT events like evening movies, various student activities, etc. Also on my agenda was getting more involved in the Newman parish up here.
October – I managed to get out of the RIT area and headed off to Letchworth with people from Newman. Other than continuing to actually become social and go to various events and BarCamp, It was a pretty uninteresting month.
November – I saw the 13th Animation Show of Shows when it was at RIT – this was a *fantastic* event of videos from large and small animators. After that I started getting more involved in Mrow.org services, so now I’ve pretty much rebuilt many of the services run under the domain on two servers in my apartment. For Thanksgiving break I stopped in Baltimore for a couple of days to visit friends and had a good time exploring the city and having Faidleys crab cakes!
December – We started winter quarter and I took SysAdmin II, Advanced Routing/Switching, Perl for SysAdmins, and Human Resource Management. The course load is pretty intense, but the knowledge gain is worth it. In about the third week of classes I was given the offer to join a fraternity, which was something I never intended on or even planned for when starting college. Over break I met up with a bunch of TJ kids and helped organize the 2nd SAAA meet-up.
Over the course of the year, I had the chance to partake in activities and things that have helped me to become a bit of a more social person while still maintaining my personal ideals, beliefs, and work ethics. This definitely helped to increase the closeness of some of my friendships, which have been great to me and are wonderful things that I certainly couldn’t live without.
The year definitely ended on a high note, and I hope that 2012 increases in awesomeness and continues to deliver unexpected results for the better. Here’s to a fun school, interesting ideas, and absolutely awesome friends! 2012, here we come.
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