Diary of a Network Geek

Wow, what a fast response from Google! Over the weekend, I Googled on CNE Resume to see how my rankings were doing only to find that one of the two most egregious pages were gone. Now this morning, I checked again and they both are gone!! So, I’m back at #1. Cool! Thank you, Google!

Not by me, though!

Hey, this is really just a link to an article about RSS Aggregators on WiredNews. It is a good article, though. And it sums up the different options quite nicely.
I thought I’d supply a quick link to it, though, since I know several people read my blog via RSS.

Oh, Lord, how am I going to choose, now?

Okay, so there’s been this big issue with Movable Type licensing that made me think it was time to change blog systems. But, today, I get an e-mail from Movable Type that says “For personal, we actually will no longer have weblog limits. This
adjustment, due to the feedback we’ve had from users, will be online early
next week (the free version will be limited though).” *sigh* So, now, just when I’d decided to move to b2Evolution for my blog, I have to reconsider! See, I did a plugin for Movable Type that lets you do some custom date things and it was a lot of work. Of course, it probably won’t work on the new version, but still, I should be close. And, I know this blog system fairly well. I really do like the interface better than anyone else’s that I’ve seen. I had been waiting to pay for version 3.0 because I expected it to have spell check in it, but it doesn’t, yet. And, then, there’s the whole money issue. I mean, I can get a blog system for free that does seem to work just as well. At least, my wife seems to get it to work just as well…
So, now, I’m in a quandry. Stay with Movable Type, which I know, but will have to almost relearn for the new version. Or, just start learning a new system from scratch. Oh, hell, I think I’ll just go see Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban! (But, I’m sure I’ll talk about it more, later.)

is back!

Well, at least the Warehouse 23 Basement is back. And, frankly, that’s all that matters. It’s loads of fun, especially if you’re a gamer. Or, and Indiana Jones fan, oddly enough. It’s acutally based on that huge warehouse at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Who knows, you might even find the lost Ark of the Covenant!

Anyway, it’s Friday, so go have fun!

Well, it’s official. I’ve given notice, both in e-mail and on paper. My last day at Loomis will be Friday, June 25th. My first day at Oceaneering International will be July First. I’m going to have to wait a week or so before I start growing my beard back, though. Some kind of crazy insurance policy thing that might mess up my current boss if I started growing my beard before I’m almost out. Eh, whatever. I can wait a few more days to be my old self again.
And, finally, a job using all my Netware skills and my shiny, new Linux skills, too!

Yes, there’s more than one down side.

And, no, I don’t mean the lost domestic jobs. While this article on AustralianIT details practices in that country, I’m sure the same thing is happening here: Body-Hire Scams. Basically, IT workers from “less advantaged” countries are brought into a highly industrialized country, like Australia, with the lure of good jobs and a better life. Then, the job either ends early, or never materializes, and the victim is left to find a way to maintain their status. The truly ugly part of the scam is when the predatory company offers to keep the victim in the country, for a price. Nasty, nasty, nasty. So, watch out for shifty IT recruiters, you H1B1 visa folks! Don’t get scammed!

Okay, this is kind of self-referential, but…

According to this article on AustralianIT, the fine people who make the Opera web browser, are making a blog browser. Sort of an interesting idea, I thought, considering how popular blogs are getting these days.
But, when I read the details it turns out that what they’re doing is incorporating Really Simple Syndication, or RSS, into their web browser so that users can have new items from blog RSS feeds that they subscribe to come in as individual messages in Opera’s mail client, which is packaged with the browser. Which is still not a bad idea. Interesting article, anyway.

Notice that I filed this under “Personal”?

Because, yeah, I take it quite personally. Damn bottom-feeder. Anyway, I’ve written up a little article about the whole thing and why it made me so mad. I actually have several copies of the article, as examples of what kind of thing he did to me. You can find them all at:
The “Original” Article
The First Copy
An Example of how he hacked my page
And, another one.

(Those last two are the same filename he used on his site.)