Trying to figure out what to buy your geek for the holidays? Look no further:
2006 Task List
Now that I’ve officially accepted a new job and given my notice, I’ve started compiling a list of stuff I need to accomplish before January 2.
- Find an apartment with a short term lease or a sublet in Chicago
- Brush up on the various differences between PHP 4.3 and PHP 5.x, as well as PHP 5’s OO model
- Obtain quotes from various movers (since I now have far too much heavy stuff to enlist my friends help to move in exchange for free pizza and beer)
- Cash out my remaining AOL options (which will be just enough for me to buy two large pizzas and a six pack)
- Inform everyone of my various new contact methods
- Get the co-located servers out of my basement
- Find a home for my personal server, preferably in the Chicago area
- Use my AOL discounts to buy any hardware (laptop, LCD, etc) that I will need
- Dump my brain into our department wiki at AOL
So Long, Farewell, Adieu
After four and a half years, I’ll be leaving AOL. The company has been through numerous changes in management and direction while I’ve been here, and so I suppose this will be one more (albeit small). I’ve accepted a position as a Sr. Web Developer at Mbira in Chicago, IL. But don’t let the title fool you, the new job is a mix of LAMP development, systems administration, systems engineering, and architecture. My new company provides a web platform for musicians, offering a store front for gear sales at zzounds.com and samedaymusic.com, as well as forums for musicians at gearwire.com. Despite how much I will miss the people I’ve worked with over the last 5 years, I’m extremely excited about my new job and relocating to the third largest city in the US. And now to leave you with something humorously appropriate (*cough*soi*cough*)
A Brief History of Unix
For the uninitiated, here’s a summary of the last 35 years of Unix development. If you can manage to trace the history of the Linux kernel through this, I’m impressed.
Internet Map
Ran across this at http://xkcd.com/c195.html and just couldn’t resist. I fear what the IPv6 map will look like in 10 years.