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Wow... been a long time since I've been to the site... I got so busy, between work and school and life, that I actually forgot about my diary.. so to quickly catch up

Built a GNU/Linux Firewall/VPN server for the company I now work for called BroadConnect. Our clients love it, it even resolves WINS, so they can browse the network neighborhood or use there Outlook Clients from home

Starting the first ever GNU User Group, first meeting is going to be on next Tuesday, and we are gonna be feature in Brave GNU World

Still in school :-(... taking an excellent Shell Scripting class :-)

Still love my Girlfriend, but recently fell in love with GNOME

The most important thing for me in life, is to do what I "WANT" to be doing, and this is never more important than when you are looking for employment.. the so called best offer, or highest price is not the place I wanna be. I like where I work now, I come in in warm-ups and a T-shirt and walk around the office bear foot, while coding and configuring linux systems.

I asked a friend last night, "Would you work for a pharmacutical company, that made an over the counter drug, that was known to cause birth defects, if they offered you $60,000 and a plushy middle management positoin"... to my sad suprise he said yes... I guess some people don't mix money with morals.

Watched the Vice Presidential Debate last night, really liked what Cheany had to say consider he is part of the big two. This system is slowly going to hell, but he has good ideas about Investing Social Security.

I've been contributing to Social Security for the last 6 years, and I will never see it... I want this system to change as soon as possible... I don't wanna pay SS for another 20 years, to have them change the policy then, hell I"ll sue the Federal Government if I get screwed out of Social Security, if they don't do something to change the problem immediately.

Been a while since I posted an entry.. getting really busy, which is good when it comes to work, and bad when it comes to school. I wake up happy everyday cause I see myself in a really good place in like 5 years... car broke down, but shit happens, I'll get it fixed, no big deal. The brakes went, but at least I caught them before I killed someone...

Crazy Weekend... time to pull my life together... Want to start deploying this gnu/linux gateway box, I developed for my company on Thurs... still have some rough ends to work out... Have 2 midterms next Tuesaday... weekend was interesting... I love my girlfriend, but... this wasn't the best of weekends for us.

I was thinking of setting up a machine and give root access to all the members of the GNU User Group, and we can work together to secure and enhance the machine... just a thought

Birthday went really well, will only get better with my girlfriend coming to visit me on Friday, can't wait. I'm really excited today, about things going on with the linux world, but the linux kernel in particular...

TODAY is my 22, BIRTHDAY... and for the last 9 months and 26 days of my life, I have been in heaven... things are going really good... I love my girlfriend (for 9 months and 26 days... or so), I have a really great job, and another awsome job offer (might work them both), I have awsome friends, school is going painlessly (right now), my websites are cool, my Open Source project has a couple of developers (and I plan to dedicate more time to the project soon... I promise), I am running the Albany GNU User Group... most of all, I have some roots in this Open Source World.

I"m hungry... and contemplating working 2 jobs at once... Tommorrow I become 22... Read a Kuro5hin article and it got me thinking seriously about the Media and the capitalist system... I dunno why I am in such deep thought over this, I didn't even think the article was good, but it was thought provoking... it's not that capitalism isn't working properly, the problem is it is working perfectly. One could even conclude that the system of capitalism is not working...

The company I worked for this summer, BASCOM, asked me to work remotely from school... I already have a really good job, and I'm real happy with my new job. But I might actually be able to do both of them and still go to school... I'm gonna look into that... I dunno why I like to work so much.

ErikLevy has some strange views about software for being an Advogato user.. HINT HINT... OPEN SOURCE Companies are not going out of business anytime soon... are there any signs that they are like the Dot-Coms? No, they all have revenue models, and it may take a few years to develop, but hey it's working for Amazon.. RedHat, Caldera, VA Linux, they are all in good shape... So to say that Free Software is going to put business under is an ignorant statement... I can't honestly give one good reason for proprietary software. On top of that, Open Source companies are not in the software business, but the service business.

Man my head is so clouded today, it's hard for me to work on the technical stuff, and I dont' know why my head is so clouded...

I hope to write sometime soon a diary entry about some of my political beliefs

There is nothing wrong with flame on an advocacy site.. it is expected, and believe it or not, sometimes resolves conflict

And Finally today's diary entry

I just wanted to take some time out of my day and thank the corporate forces of the Open Source movement. Thanks you Helix Code, you guys are doing a great job and I am excited to see what our lovely desktop will look like 1 year from now. Keep an ear on criticizm, but know you guys are headed in the right direction, doing the right thing, keep the marketing for the Beer Industry... while on the desktop issue, Eazel, Nautalus is looking great. Wish someone would do for KDE what Helix is doing for GNOME... I'm a gnu guy, but with KDE now GPL'd I'd like to see the competition heat up.

Thanks to RED HAT for showing the world what Linux is, and positioning themself to be one of the dominant companies of this century An unusual thanks goes to SUN Microsystems a new ally to the Free Software World.. good job getting involved with GNOME, GPL'ing Star Office and buying Cobalt... now Open Up some more of that Code. VA Linux... I dunno what to say... your perhaps the corporation that contributes most to us developers. SourceForge is truely a staple and important part of our culture now.

Oreilly I dedicate a paragraph of my diary to you guys... enough said.. you are the Open Source movement. Been supportive from Day 1, and are personally responsible for making me the tech I am... I have countless books, and have spent countless hours reading them all.

There are no doubt companies dear to my heart that I missed, I'm sorry your not in my diary, honorable mention goes to DRJ Computing, for paying me to develop linux solutions, and I'm hoping in my down time they will allow me to join some Open Source projects on company time... I mean we are a 5 man company, not exactly like Red Hat, but we all know here, how important Open Source projects are... I wanna joing the PoPTop team, I'd also like to help find a replacement for Exchange Server...