Happy birthday, tdjohnsn!

Sorry you're not feeling well on your birthday, but I hope you recover quickly and can enjoy the day nonetheless! I'm looking forward to helping you celebrate appropriately when we next meet! :-)

Happy birthday, tdjohnsn!

Sorry you're not feeling well on your birthday, but I hope you recover quickly and can enjoy the day nonetheless! I'm looking forward to helping you celebrate appropriately when we next meet! :-)

Procrastination

I usually don't procrastinate very well. Knowing there are priority items on my to-do list usually drives me nuts, so I try to tackle them as quickly as possible, either by completing them entirely or working until I encounter a dependency on someone else's efforts.

There are, however, four items on which I routinely procrastinating.

1. Cleaning the house, esp. the bathroom. I finally finished this Monday, but it was an uphill battle.
   
2. Labeling & filing my stacks of photos. This is almost complete: I'm waiting for additional photo album refill sheets and the arrival of another stack of prints. I received e-mail confirmation from all appropriate vendors yesterday that everything is now en route so I hope to finish off this piece by the weekend.
   
3. Redrafting a security standards checklist for work. It's simply unbelievably ugly and it will take a serious amount of effort to make it usable & functional. My procrastination is further fueled by the knowledge that the only reason this particular checklist is required is because our performance auditors are technically & functionally illiterate.
   
4. Editing & posting a number of company policies, standards and procedures. The tools we have for this are simply painful to use and the documents themselves are dreadfully dull. There are so many other things I'd rather be doing.
   

Recognizing my failure to address the latter two points effectively, I have now resolved to work exclusively on these two items at work today, or at least as much as possible given the occasional unpredictable demands on my limited attention span.

Wish me luck.

Procrastination

I usually don't procrastinate very well. Knowing there are priority items on my to-do list usually drives me nuts, so I try to tackle them as quickly as possible, either by completing them entirely or working until I encounter a dependency on someone else's efforts.

There are, however, four items on which I routinely procrastinating.

1. Cleaning the house, esp. the bathroom. I finally finished this Monday, but it was an uphill battle.
   
2. Labeling & filing my stacks of photos. This is almost complete: I'm waiting for additional photo album refill sheets and the arrival of another stack of prints. I received e-mail confirmation from all appropriate vendors yesterday that everything is now en route so I hope to finish off this piece by the weekend.
   
3. Redrafting a security standards checklist for work. It's simply unbelievably ugly and it will take a serious amount of effort to make it usable & functional. My procrastination is further fueled by the knowledge that the only reason this particular checklist is required is because our performance auditors are technically & functionally illiterate.
   
4. Editing & posting a number of company policies, standards and procedures. The tools we have for this are simply painful to use and the documents themselves are dreadfully dull. There are so many other things I'd rather be doing.
   

Recognizing my failure to address the latter two points effectively, I have now resolved to work exclusively on these two items at work today, or at least as much as possible given the occasional unpredictable demands on my limited attention span.

Wish me luck.

Unix Sysadmin Job Opportunity in Greater Washington DC area

My Unix Support team has an opening in Urbana, MD, the same data center in which I work. You won't have to answer to me, but you will have to put up with me. :-)

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Unix Sysadmin Job Opportunity in Greater Washington DC area

My Unix Support team has an opening in Urbana, MD, the same data center in which I work. You won't have to answer to me, but you will have to put up with me. :-)

( Click for details... )

Palm Problems

I love having a Palm PDA. I've carried one model or another continuously since at least December of 1998, transferring my accumulated data from one to the next. They're wonderful little devices, but still not quite perfect.

My current Tungsten E2 model has a couple of annoying bugs: unlike it's Tungsten E predecessor, this model can't handle SD cards larger than 1 GB, and the search function is broken. Still, I've found ways of working around these minor issues and life goes on.

( Last night, I tried to resolve a long-standing issue with the hot syncing process and failed miserably. )

So close, and still so far away.

Palm Problems

I love having a Palm PDA. I've carried one model or another continuously since at least December of 1998, transferring my accumulated data from one to the next. They're wonderful little devices, but still not quite perfect.

My current Tungsten E2 model has a couple of annoying bugs: unlike it's Tungsten E predecessor, this model can't handle SD cards larger than 1 GB, and the search function is broken. Still, I've found ways of working around these minor issues and life goes on.

( Last night, I tried to resolve a long-standing issue with the hot syncing process and failed miserably. )

So close, and still so far away.