Books
Done With Dune
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
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Moving to Serendipity
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
Slow day at 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
Dune
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
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Serendipity
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
Gone to Vegas
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
Certs
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
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Another good weekend
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
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Fun Weekend
What a long and fun filled weekend. There was drinking at East Village. We ordered 20 shots at one time. Bathing suit competition on Friday. There was Rum Runners on Friday night. Beach on Saturday for more bathing suit competitions. I don't know who won. I think in
Joost!
I just started testing out the new Joost beta. GigaOM was giving out invites like mad so I decided to see what it was like. I can watch Aqua Teen and other Comedy Central shows, National Geographic, and my favorite on there so far... Fifth Gear. Absolutely awesome! The service
Pidgin
The Beta for Pidgin (new GAIM) was released just the other day. pidgin.im I'm excited to see how this all works out. In other unrelated news I'm seriously considering the purchase of a Jeep YJ or TJ. It'd be fun to have a
Radar Love
I was driving into work this morning and a thought popped into my head. I'd enjoy being in a long distance relationship again just so I could listen to "Radar Love" on the way to see my girl. Such a damn good driving song. When I