I work 3rd shift, so when I go to work, there is little to no traffic. This makes it easy to get from point A to point B relatively quickly, except when the police decide they want to exercise their authority/ability to make traffic move along at a crawling pace. They will intentionally drive very slow, at or below the speed limit, and pull over anyone that attempts to drive faster than them. So on a clear straight road, you there is this big group of cars accumulating because the police want

After being in tech support for a year, I've learned a few useful things that I didn't know a year ago. Most of what I've learned is how to waste/spend time, 8 hours actually. An issue may arise once in a blue moon, which is good, cuz nobody likes to have problems. Most of the time I'm faced with the dilemna of what to do with all this time I have when there are no problems. Here what I do to waste 8 hours.

In other news, Rush Limbaugh made more comments regarding beleagured athletes today. His claim that Donovan McNabb was overrated and that people want to see a black quarterback succeed got him into hot water before and caused him to lose his job at ESPN. He was also heard saying Jim Steinerstein was an overrated hockey player, and that people just want to see a Muslim hockey player succeed, and that Jeb Huckleberry was an overrated NBA point guard, and that people want to see a Jewish point gu

Got my first certification this past weekend, the SCJP(Sun Certified Java Programmer) and i'm glad to be done with it. The sole purpose of the test is supposed to be to test how well you understand Java. For the most part it does, but it's really out to try and trick you. They throw devious questions at you getting you thinking along one path, following the flow of execution, and then the correct answer turns out to be a missing semicolon or a overly-restrictive access modifier or something l

I'm sure there are many out there in the world right now that are similar to me, but I don't know them. Or rather i'm not in close proximity to them now. The closest proximity right now is this computer and internet connection, which lets me know there are others the same as me, others as ignorant as me, and others way more brilliant than me. But still let me describe my angst. It's been in my mind for awhile now, ever since graduation, but it hasn't materialized so much until now. I'm desc

Haven't written anything in here in awhile, and i'm bored now, so here's a little brainfart.

I'm calling this under/unemployment because I do have a job, but it's not what I should be doing. The job I have came mainly from skills I picked up outside of school, tinkering with computers and learning on my own, but it doesn't involve hardly anything I've learned from busting my ass the past 4 years as an aspiring programmer. Still it's a job, and hopefully it'll lead to something else. The pay is crap, my mind is going to mush from the boredom the job brings, and i'm nowhere near satisf

Ya know, the media and world has warped the word "hacker" into a bad word referring to a person that breaks into computers for nefarious activities. The IT community knows a hacker as someone skilled in computers that comes up with a "hack" as a clever way to accomplish a desired task (not illegal). But really, why can't we just let the world have the word "hacker" and just come up with another title. Because when it comes down to titles, who is really going to go around calling themselves a hac