Hard work

Yesterday was the Centennial Celebration for the Main Library downtown here in Columbus. It was a free, community event partially sponsored by the Friends of the Library. Since we needed some stuff to talk about on the website, I volunteered to spend the day taking photos. (I had volunteered to do that well before I…

Upgraded

Just finished upgrading my home desktop to Ubuntu 7.04. So far, so good. Now I’ve just got to do some research and figure out what’s new. Any of you Ubuntu fans want to point me in the direction of what’s new and cool in Fiesty? I’m looking forward to digging into it some more, but…

The Beast

I was doing a video capture through the firewire port of my new work machine this morning when I remembered that I hadn’t blog about it yet. Given all the resource-demanding work I’ll be doing, stuff like video capture/editing, drive imaging, etc., I really needed a beefed-up machine for it. So we spec’d out a…

Did Blogging Help Me?

I got a question the other day about whether this blog helped me get my new job. It was an interesting question, because I hadn’t really thought about it. The job was an internal post, so the concept of someone finding my blog and using it to evaluate what I know about technology, obviously, wasn’t…

Proper information

One of the comments Phil made in the interview yesterday stuck out to me as I went back and read it again this evening: I stress how important it is that we get all the documentation, that we get our Fact Sheet filled out so when people call about things, we can at least answer…