IT Superhero. I like to learn things, write them down, and occasionally share with others.
Work
Justin had some interesting comments on serviceability and error messages: http://tinfoilsoldier.com/blog/2007/11/02/net-helpmsg/ I run into this crap CONSTANTLY day after day trying to figure out what a certain error message means. Turns out it all depends on who programmed the lines of code
Projects
I'm a pretty big geek as I'm sure everyone knows by now. So here's the coolest thing I've done lately:
Work
So I brought home some books and have some material here for CCIE studying. I think it's finally time I started since I posted about it a LONG LONG time ago. So hopefully I'll stick to studying for the next few months and you guys won&
Friends
Labor day weekend has been a glorious time so far. It started out with motorcycles, moved on to drinking, and finished up with a slip and slide party. I'm using today as a recovery day. I hurt everywhere from that damn slip and slide. Apparently the ground is
Books
I just finished the 6th book in Frank Herbert's Dune series. A thought came to me. "I am the destroyer of words." When I woke up this morning at 11:30 (I was up until 3 reading) I started reading another book. I want to find
Projects
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
Work
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
Books
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. Litany Against Fear I'm reading the 6th book now which was the last one written by Frank
Projects
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
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
Problem Description: Need beer and money. Action Plan: Get my CCNA before the end of July and pull in 750 bucks. So work is offering an incentive to get your CCNA.. I hadn't really considered this because it's the lowest level cert you can get.. and
Friends
One word will summarize this weekend. Mustache The weekend of the Mustache party was upon us. Everyone had worked as hard as they possibly could for weeks (or a few days for some) to grow the most glorious Mustache possible. I went with a T formation Jesse went with the