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
Friends
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
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
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
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
Friends
Yesterday was Easter. To celebrate we had a feast of glorious proportions. On Paper Plates: I drove over with Matt, Jesse, and Heather. Not sure why Matt was celebrating Easter. We thought he should be doing more productive things like shooting RPGs at Egypt. Long story. Candra made enough Potatoes
Just upgraded my Gallery to 2.2. The feature I've been looking forward to in this version is autorotation of images based on EXIF orientation data. When I tilt the camera to take a vertical pic the camera knows and writes this to the .jpg file. Gallery then
I was hanging out at East Village the other night and I was referred to as "Talky McTalkerson". If you know me at all (which I assume you do since you're here), you'll immediately see the sarcasm. I started thinking about this. I'