It’s the time of year that many people turn their thoughts to patriotism, me included. I love my country. Always have. I’m damn proud to be an American, and I would never want to give that up. But this year, I have some perspectives I haven’t had before. First, I have recently begun to pay [...]

Man, life has been too busy to keep this as up to date as I really want to! Sorry for that, but here’s another update for everyone. First, since my last post, I have also passed my Extra class ham radio license test, and received my vanity callsign. I’m now N7TOX, which I picked because [...]

I’m 30 today. It’s kind of surreal, but probably not for the reasons most people think it is. See, I don’t /feel/ 30. I barely feel like I’m not a teenager anymore, and yet… I’ve been married for nearly ten years, and I’m 30. Crazy. My wife got me a new binary clock from thinkgeek [...]

One of my friends convinced me to try out KDE again. I’ve never been real settled on a window manager for Linux, alternating between Gnome, KDE, and other random ‘lightweight’ WMs. But, I figured I’d give KDE another shot since I’ve been with Gnome for a while. Unfortunately, KDE 4.1 and 4.2 have definately failed [...]

Since this seems to be the time of year to do this sort of thing, I decided I would post a bit about the last year, and the year to come. No resolutions per se, but some definite goals, that I hope should be easily achieved. Also, updates about what happened to my little family [...]