inside the brain

The following is a list of things which have happened in my life recently (in no particular order):

Transferred to our Network team for a 3 month trial period. First month review is Friday. Really enjoying the work so far.

Bought a laptop and pretty much stopped using my desktop.

Sold a proposal in work based on one line contained in it.

Have talked about another proposal which wasn’t deemed immediately as not politically viable. I might be able to talk (very briefly) about it when (if?) its done.

Turned 20.

Got a Technet membership from being in the Microsoft IT Professional program thanks to Dave Northey. Disclaimer: I have to do something public with this though, I’m thinking about publishing how to get Debian to authenticate against Windows 2008. Any other suggestions?

See you in another 2-3 months

A quote from Scrubs:

Yes I’m aware it has been more then 3 months since I bothered to post something new so I’ve been debating over what to do with this site.

A) Become a more active blogger. We both know what the odds of that are.

B) Delete the contents of this folder and replace it with a nice shiny blank page.

C) Leave it as is. I figure at the end of the day I write this for myself and not anybody else. If someone gets a benefit from reading this then that is a bonus.

So in the mean time while I debate on what to do with this site, some random updates.

I’m currently in the process of being coming a director and the Treasurer of Sysadmin.ie. Fun fact: I can never spell treasurer correctly the first time round.

I’ve been an employee of Goa (part of the Orange / France Telecom group) for just over a year now.

I’ve been finally been able to play GMod with Nick after he got a new laptop. Then it turned out my PC had faulty RAM and we haven’t played since.

Twitter is probably the best way to keep a vague idea of what I’m doing. I update it bit more then this.

I’m purging my follow list on Twitter and cleaning up my subscription list in Google reader. I find myself not reading a lot of what I’ve subbed to and just glancing over it.

I’ve started after all these years doing some semi decent and regular backups. I’m using Jungledisk with Amazon S3, my most recent credit card statement puts my backup bill around 50 cent.

So I went to London for the launch party for Multiwinia. It was weird putting faces to all the IRC/Forum nicks but interesting. Now I move on to my next point:

London, there is something about that place which just really got under my skin and as a result I am not a fan of the place at all, before people think I’m crazy or something I asked around in the office who liked London and I didn’t get many positive responses

With the amount of travelling I’ve done for work so far I got upgraded to silver level in Flying Blue (Air France’s frequent flying scheme)

I started this post on the 2nd of November so I’ve forgotten anything else I may of decided to put in here

If any more proof was needed that Mark Lamarr was awesome:

This site doesn’t suck.

That will be all.

Eight years and two elections later you finally got it right.

Kudos.

This is what I’ve been working on over the last few days. It isn’t entirely finished but this is what I’m aiming for. Soon it will be hosting the mail for all my domains.

I reckon twitter would get fed up with days of silence and then spamming crap for an entire evening so I’ll do my brain dump here:

I’m out of books to read these days, what should I give Amazon money for? The last thing I read recently was Riding Rockets.

I am now working for six months.

Xbox lan games until 3am when you have to be up at 9am is not clever.

I am still hungry today eating chips for lunch, a dinner and a pringle sandwich. I think my body may be shutting down after years of taking crap from me. Could also explain why my neck is in bits today.

I am considering buying a decent chair for my PC. Would a trip to Ikea be a good idea?

Despite having a full license for almost a year, I have only done the M50 twice. Managed not to kill anyone or cause a pile up this weekend. Good going.

7000 airmiles later and I’ve only got my frequent flyer card now. Going back to France in two maybe three weeks.

I need to open a savings account and do something smart with my money. Any recommendations?

I know I said every week but this is me we are talking about…

In work related things:

I am doing the interviews for this role for the next week at least. I can say this side of the interview table is far more fun.

I think this is all I can mention which is either A) Interesting or B) Not company confidential

Other stuff:

Staying up until 1:30am in the morning when you have to be in work and playing a LAN game of Halo, while a good idea initally is a very bad idea that morning. And doing it twice in the same week is even worse.

Book keeping sucks and the rates accountants charge sucks even more.

How about I try do weekly updates? This is probably the only weekly update for a long time going on my previous experience in trying to do regular blogging.

Back from a week with the Army. Doing a week of training which wasn’t as sucessful as I would of liked. Really can’t say any more on that.

However I did get drug tested. Needless to say showing up just after breakfast when people had been to the bathroom is a bad time to arrive. It took a while for an encore. I am not going into any more detail then that.

Work is getting busy enough these days. Now that I’m back from my weekly trips to the French office I have my own work to catch up on. Should be interesting to see what happened over the week while I was away.

YouTube time: Planet Telex – Radiohead

For anyone who remembers I posted about one year ago ten things I’d like to have done by now. I shall now publish the results of this, slightly late of course.

(1) Get full drivers license (Doing driving lessons now) Passed!

(2) Be well on the way to getting my PPL (Private Pilots License) Failed!

(3) Get my CCNA (Its not something you can read a few pages every night) Passed!

(4) Get into somewhere decent for College Failed!

(5) Start my own business (Idea is there but I doubt customers are) Passed! (technically it was a different business I started but a business)

(6) Project Tower. If you have to ask then don’t. Failed!

(7) Project Tower Mk II. See six Failed!

(8) Be more of an active blogger (Also includes the finishing of the draft posts sitting here) Failed! (Those drafts are still incomplete)

(9) Work for either Microsoft or Google (or both!) Failed! (Well I nearly passed, I got rejected by Google at the last stage of the hiring process. I will apply again in a year or so though when I get more commercial experience)

(10) Learn a programming language Failed!

So yeah… not an entirely sucessful year then. Oh well maybe I’ll repost this a year later and see if much has changed.