busy busy
- September 1st, 2008
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Lately my blog has been pretty sparse, to say the least. You might even think I just gave up on the whole thing, but really I’ve just been too busy to bother. To catch up, school has started, as has a new on-campus job. Every once in a while, I even manage to do a little photography here and there. All of that conspires to take up every ounce of free time I have.
Most of you know my policy on homework, or at least my past policy on homework. Things have changed, or at least I am consciously attempting to change them. For the first time in recorded history, I actually have intentions of doing at least most of my homework. I’m not going to sit here and write, as a matter of permanent internet history, that I am going to do each and every homework assignment I receive henceforth. That would just be silly. I will say that I actually intend to not only pay attention to assignments and when they are due, but I will even make an effort to complete them before they are due. Yes, yes, I know – I really shouldn’t try to make too many changes at once, but hey when have I ever done things the easy way? Just to prove I’m serious, I just finished writing a paper that isn’t due until Wednesday. That’s right, I did something two whole days early. Not just something, I wrote a paper, before the due date.
Just to touch my other usual areas briefly, here’s a lovey list.
- My truck’s third door is still broken, and the tailgate doesn’t care to open most of the time.
- The SV gets much better gas mileage now that it has a fresh air filter, and fresh spark plugs. It now also has over 20,000mi on the clock.
- Uncle Sam still owes me around $3000.
- I do not get to play guitar as often as I would like.
- I still love photography, but hate post-processing.
- Hitting a rock with your lower spine while floating down the Guadalupe River, is most unpleasant.
- Whoever invented Cicso Clean Access, deserves to be shot many times at close range with rock salt out of a 12ga shotgun.
- If you thought Windows Vista was terrible, try running it in conjunction with Cisco Clean Access. I take no responsibility for suicidal thoughts which may arise as a result of Vista + CCA.
- I may change my minor from photography, to something that does not require me to spend hundreds of dollars on perishable supplies.
That is all, for now.
ps. given the wonderful “choices” we have, namely Obama/Biden and McCain/Palin, for the upcoming election…. I’m just going to go ahead and continue weeping for America. poor constitution ;_;
poor spine
re: Cisco Clean Access
I was given a presentation by Cisco on that very “technology”. Needless, I was extremely underwhelmed. It epitomized “Cisco R&D” which is really M&A: acquire a company for their technology so you can say you offer it and attempt to shove it down your customers’ throats. Keep in mind, I didn’t even see the client piece of CCA, just what the backend architecture looked like (and, of course, the endless promises of what it would accomplish).
This was little over two years ago, and I’m not surprised it’s still crap. Clearly, the network admins who implemented it for you got some sort of kickback.
Now I know where Ryan gets his study habits from.