Been Awhile
Once again, it’s been awhile since I’ve written anything to my blag, but since Hindenburg is up and running again and I just upgraded WordPress, I suppose I should actually write something.
Work is going well, with the next couple of months looking to be pretty busy. I’ll be traveling to Virginia next week to rework our servers there. It’s the first time I’ve been to a datacenter other than Boston, so it should be pretty interesting. Sounds like I’ll also be going to Chicago and San Jose, but I don’t know the details on that quite yet.
On the home front, I’ve got a couple of projects I’ve been working on, a NanoBSD based home router using a MiniITX board I’ve had sitting around for the past couple of years, and I recently purchased an inexpensive Dell system which I plan to use as a Home Theater PC running Ubuntu. I’m planning to rig it up to pull shows off of my TiVo and automatically transcode them into formats suitable for watching from my Treo or iPod. Should be pretty neat once I get it set up and running.
I’ve also been studying to get my amateur radio license. I’ve been taking practice tests on my Treo using EggsHam and am getting to the point of only getting 2 or 3 questions wrong per test. The next testing session in the area is on June 16th, so I’m hoping to go down then, get my license, then head to the MIT Flea on the 17th and maybe find a handheld transceiver.
