Stand Aside

It feels quite righteous to be so close to the end. 4 years of going to school and working to pay the bills is finally culminating with receipt of the coveted Bachelor's Degree!! To be honest, I think I am more excited that I will finally be able to just work. Wierd huh? I know, there are probably a lot of people out there saying, 'He doesn't know what he's in for.' and 'He'll be wishing he was back in college soon enough.' But I am truly excited to just work for awhile. It is so taxing to have to concentrate on school as well as work. The two are very involved and I'd like to devote more energy to one vs the other but when I have to do both its just very difficult. [<--Run on sentence?]

Anyways some new stuff:

Linux is running on an old laptop as my music-box. I move a lot of my music files to that machine when I don't listen to them as much so I can save space on my primary laptop. I have Rhythmbox running a DAAP music server so that I can listen to everything through iTunes. It auto updates as I load stuff onto it. The only downfall so far is that Joe, my roomate, cannot put any of his music on it because its all iTunes protected. That's BS in my opinion, but let's not get into a rant on proprietary music rights.

I'm setting up a local server on Linux so that I can begin work on a Wordpress site. I found that when I used wordpress I was able to retain a lot more knowledge on web development because I was constantly doing it. I want that knowledge back, and I also want the scalability and cost-savings of a wordpress site. So, yes, I will probImage via Wikipediaably be transitioning this site over in a few months. I'll let ya'll know my progress as I go. Maybe I'll start a nice little page on my adventures with Linux.

I can't tell you how much of a pain it was for me to just get the linux machine to run a print server. It took me a good week of troubleshooting and talking to Billy, my unofficial Linux techsupport [he is running Ubuntu 8.10 as his main OS on an Acer laptop]. Alas it finally runs smoothly with my computer and Joe's computer.

Its late. I'm tired. Plenty of West Wing and Family Guy to watch. Plenty of books and articles to read. All ready for work in the morning.

Peace readers and Thank you so much for dedicating a few minutes of your day to hear my thoughts.

StandAside Author: Kris Patel