I’ve cleared out everything from U of O. Everything is now at my parents place, including the main sponsor’s signs. If we are fortunate, perhaps we can use them again next year.
After unloading all the gear from the car (5 boxes), I had part of a beer on the patio to cool down. […]

After quite some time with little on the outside but lots of busy
action on the inside, the
BSD Certification Group’s
BSD Associate (BSDA) certification
is now
available!
The BSD Associate certification marks the entry level for professional,
community-based BSD certification, and work will continue to offer a
certification for BSD Professionals (BSDP) next.

At the new job, I have a new desktop. It came with XP pro installed on it. To quote a coworker, I need the following:

an email client
an ssh client
a web browser
an office suite
a CVS client

In short, I an allowed to use whatever OS I’m comfortable with and can support.
My choice: PC-BSD
Why? It is […]

I left South Carolina at about 5:30 this morning. I arrived in Willow Grove, PA at about 3:30.
I’m tired. Now if only I could sleep in my own bed.

I’m at the Howard Johnson in Battleboro, NC. The place has seen better days. The room is $40 a night for a king size bed. It’s just gone 11:31 PM. I plan to be up at 6am. There is about 7.5 hours of driving left to do. I’m not […]

It is 6:48 am on Wednesday morning. John and Ruth had a golf game yesterday at 8:10 am. After they returned, we went to breakfast with at Tony’s Diner. I spent the afternoon at Busch Gardens, riding roller coasters. John loaned me his car to drive there. It was much better […]

There are 12 hours before I pick up the truck and start the move to Pennsylvania. Right now, Bacula is running the second set of full backups of the day. I’ll leave one copy here in Jupiter, and take the other copy with me.
Left to do:

pack up the tv and move it downstairs
close […]

I started packing last week. You might think I’m getting good at packing, having done it just six months ago. I have to admit, many things were not yet unpacked. The office is pretty much packed up. I have left out the printer in case there are some last minute things needed […]

I’ve found work. Lots of it in fact. I had three job offers, and declined to proceed to with a few more interview processes. In the end, I took a job with Afilias. I’ll be working with PostgreSQL as a DBA (database administrator).
It was just 6 weeks ago that I posted […]

I’m looking for work. I’m a software developer with lots of sysadmin experience. My ideal job would require multiple skills and involve development of high availability strategy, some coding, database design, and some sysadmin work, although not necessarily in that order.
My resume: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php
Will consider relocation.