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Doh

Chip — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 17:02:00 +0000

Overslept and missed the ham radio exam this morning, next one in NH is on the 30th, then there isn’t one till September.

At least I got my replacement power supply yesterday, so I can finally get my home PC up and running again, then get Quicken all up to date.

Home Again

Chip — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 04:06:30 +0000

So, made it back from Ashburn yesterday. Crashed last night and slept like 14 hours. Feeling pretty much back to normal now. It was a fun trip, and I’m kindof amazed how smooth everything got installed. Looking forward to doing Chicago and Palo Alto next month.

In non-work related stuff, I’m hopefully getting my ham radio license on Saturday, just need to get down to Nashua around 9 for the exam session.

Been Awhile

Chip — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 04:22:32 +0000

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 16^th, so I’m hoping to go down then, get my license, then head to the MIT Flea on the 17^th and maybe find a handheld transceiver.