So I decided to eat crow today and admit that when I bought my diving gear last year I bit off more than I could chew with my fins, I am not quite in the right shape to use them, it was one of the few times I let my ego/pride speak for me, so today I ordered a new set of fins, a pair of Mares Military {they were on special so I couldn’t pass them up}

to replace my old (which I’ll keep, and continue to use so I can get better with them) OMS Slipstreams

I can’t wait to get them and try them out in the water. Yay!

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I Love me som LOLcats, and my nickname @ work and on the PSN is meh, so I found this quite fitting.

Technorati Tags: LOLcats, meh.

Random Musings LOLcats, meh.

Hackers embed flashing animations on epilepsy support forum – Engadget

This is one of those things that makes me want to believe that there is a god, and a hell, so that there can be a special level for these people.

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Social worker befriends mugger – Boing Boing

This is just an amazing story, I wish truly that there were more people like this in the world, talk about thinking outside the box.

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watch  – I was just introduced to this tool the other day and think that it is teh awesome, especially if you want to watch things update, give it a whirl.

Ok, for me I have noticed that I spend pretty much all of my time in windows in either my email (lotus, not by choice mind you) or in a terminal window (or firefox).  I have to say one of the most useful Systems Admin tools ever created are the putty family of tools.   If you have to run windows, then you should install cygwin (for X) and putty, it’s absolutely amazing.   Because putty handles x-forwarding, you can run sessions back across if you have cygwin and X installed.

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Now playing on Pandora: Gouryella – Walhalla
via FoxyTunes

SysAdmin Schtuff cygwin, firefox, putty

So I have managed to get one of my coworkers (teh poor fellow who has to share an office with me) to start a blog for and by systems admins. We only got it up and running last night, but hopefully will have lots of good knowledge up and maybe even some helpful hints and tips along the way. New blog is located here Eschew Obfuscation, check it out if you are interested, thanks.

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Now playing on Pandora: Ayla – Ayla (DJ Taucher Mix)
via FoxyTunes

SysAdmin Schtuff sysadmin, systems administrators

Ok,

So I learned a vary valuable lesson yesterday trying to unrack an old netapp 840 head and shelves, they are not on rails and you should always go from the top down.  I had a 90lbs shelf land on part of my hand and my foot (thankfully my foot was sideways and caught most of the brunt of it, I was sitting crossed legged).

Hardware, SysAdmin Schtuff netapp

Shuttle KPC Desktop Review – Computer Shopper

Oh shazbot I want one, it’s sooo perdy.

Hardware

Steering: The Most Violated Law In Real Estate – Searchlight Crusade

As well as most of his other posts as they are actually relevant :).

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