No looking back!
I’m ditching my custom blog application and moving over to Serendipity.
It’s got all of these cool features that would take me WAY to long to program.
You can still catch my old blog at http://bbbburns.com/burnsblog/ but everything going to bbbburns.com should punt you right to /blog/ for serendipity.
Today we had a slow day at work. This was quite possibly the best thing that could ever happen to me.
I worked on an escalation, worked on my backlog, and just got to sit there without the phone ringing off the hook.
I even got to close a 70 day old case.
A very welcome change of pace from months of “struggle to get as much work as possible fit into the 11 hour day you know you’re going to work even though you could work 24 hours straight and still be weeks behind”
Also, today the high will be below 95 degrees for the first time in a while. Good thing I rode my motorcyle in 
In closing… Awesome
I’m just finishing up the Dune series by Frank Herbert.
This was recommended to me by Justin who got me interested in it with his Tattoo of the Litany.
I’m reading the 6th book now which was the last one written by Frank Herbert. There are more books but written by his son.
If you haven’t at least read the first Dune book please ask to borrow my copy. Or go buy your own. He attempts, and succeeds, to create a massive universe inhabited with some of the most interesting and compelling characters I’ve seen.
Sometimes work sucks.. You can pick up the worst case ever.. with the worst customer ever..
A combination of communication failures everywhere.. and a mix of awful problems.
Yeah… I just want to go home and take a nap.. that’s all that’s on my mind..
So I’m considering moving all future blog posts to a Serendipity CMS http://bbbburns.com/serendipity.
It wasn’t too much work to make an RSS feed that dumped ALL of my old entries into the new CMS system..
After that I had some formatting issues that were quickly fixed with
update serendipity.serendipity_entries s, www.blog b
set s.body = b.blogText
where s.title = b. title
Which was just amazing..
I just got back from Networkers in Cali and now it’s time to take a trip to Vegas for Defcon.
As soon as I get back from Defcon I’ll be headed to a Dropkick show somewhere near some sort of beach.
Pictures to follow after August 9th. Until then.. I’m out of here.