First Post

I just got my intarweb hooked up here in Raleigh. So this is my first post. I love my new place and work starts on Monday. I'm very excited. More once I get started.

As of now, I am off to Raleigh, NC. Next post from there. Wish me luck!!

Fred Thompson

I think Fred Thompson is the best candidate for President that we have had in a long time. His writing on federalism is truly inspiring. I'm donating to his campaign, and so should you. I will probably be commenting on Mr. Thompson further in the coming weeks, so look for it.

24 August 2007

So, I haven't really posted here in a while. Not sure why, not much to report untill today. But today I have BIG news. I will be employed by Redhat starting in September. Once I start working there I think I will be posting much more. New toys to play with and sweet cashes. I am very excited!! Wish me luck.

I think I fixed my little bug on my blog. I changed where the checkout went to so it couldn't add or commit. So now I'm happy and I'm going to go ahead with more changes to the look of this wiki. This includes the following.

• New style. I want to add a little bit of tasteful color
• Some layout so that things pop out
• More license stuff. I'm going to put on the edit page that you need to license any content under the same license as the rest of this site is under.

I'm sure some other things will come to mind.

Oh, also, those following my blog with a feed reader will probably notice that all my entries are new. Oops, sorry.

So I finally moved my website to sjhserv.net. I have a few things to think about. There are a few external services that I make use of. They are as follows.

• email
• blog
• calendar
• todo list
• development

Of those I think I'm going to leave email where it is. Atleast for this year as Ive paid for the year. The calendar and todo list are two interesting things. Google does my calendar and I think I can't do any better than its interface, yet. So that stays for now. The todo list however is stored offsite in an open source web app and I pay monthly for it. So obviously thats coming over here. The development stuff is coming here as well.

As for the blog, I'm not sure. I have an lj and I don't have to pay for it, but I don't know that I like it. It has the bonus of having friends there. But the only friend who regularly (I use this term loosely) posts there is Lauren. I like the way that ikiwiki manages blogs and stuff like that. So in the end ikiwiki may win out. Though I can't ignore all the nice stuff that lj puts together. Not that I use blogs very often anyway.

I just need to figure out how I'm going to setup my site. So far I have ikiwiki managing the root of it. I like ikiwiki and recently stole (its under the gpl so not really) style sheets from another ikiwiki user. So ikiwiki looks decent, I'm just not sold yet on using it as a CMS. I think /wiki/ will always be under ikiwiki, but I don't know about the rest of the site.

Also I need to get my csee page to redirect to here. That will be happening soon enough anyway. I also need a robots.txt in the root. That too needs to be added to my todo list. Hmm, maybe I'll put on my todo list to move my todo list. Thats pretty funny.

Just an Update

I hadn't said anything here in a while, so I thought Id put my thoughts down from the last few days. The big thing I guess is that Coach Rod is going to stay at West Virginia. In the end it looked like it was nothing more than a ploy to get the university to upgrade some facilities.

I also broke my computer chair this weekend. Kinda sucks. And no, I'm not too heavy for it. I simply broke it with my legs trying to get to my wallet. So I just tried to fix it with some wall hanger and nails. It worked for a minute or two, but now the nails are slipping out and the repair is failing slowly. The funny thing is that I could design a part to repair it, but I figure I'm just going to replace it with this.

I also want to go see apocolypto, unfortunately no one else does. So if anyone wants to see it you know how to get in contact with me (if not comment here and I'll get it).

Exams are this week. I have 3 exams. MAE454, MAE465, and RELG222. 454 is on Monday, and the other 2 are on Thursday. I also have an option IE302 exam, but I already have an A in there, so I would be a fool to take that. I'm going to go to Engineering here in a little bit to study for the 454 exam. I know the basic structure of it so it shouldn't be so hard.

I've also noticed something. I'm so worthless on the weekends. I need to find a way to make more use of my weekend. Right now I made good use of maybe 3 hours so far this weekend. That is just unacceptable.

I think that's it. I'm sure I'll think of more later.

I just read a story on slashdot about Sun choosing the GPL for their upcomming open sourcing of Java. I'm not entirely sure how I feel about this. Java has really been superseeded by mono/c#. I guess if you care about patents you can go with Java, but imo, C# is simply a better language. I guess its good news for LCSEE/Kro. Now we can support one of the "Enterprise" languages and still be open source.

On a side not, Ive been posting here a lot more. I feel more technical and less emo here rather than lj. I guess my blog is staying here.

People who are not me can edit

I have just turned on edits for people who are not me. You need an openid. Go to the edit page and it will tell you where you can get one. I hope I don't have a spam problem, I'll have to lock things down again. Crappy spammers...

Copyright

I just saw a great article about iTMS in Norway. The choice quote is, "Cultural content has importance to society above and beyond its ability to generate a profit."

I wish everyone would realize that. But then again, some of the currently produced music is crap(You know who I'm talking about). But in general yeah.