1-Man IT Department

Interviewed by the Fresh Ubuntu podcast

Yesterday, I was interviewed by Harlem Quijano and Peter Nikolaidis from the Fresh Ubuntu podcast. I have been a fan of Fresh Ubuntu for quite some time, and it was an honor for them to ask me to be on. We had a good time, and I got to give a brief overview of GTD and how it may evolve technologically speaking.

Peter has began to practice GTD, and Harlem was interested in what it was all about. Hopefully, I will be able to make a return appearance so that we can delve into some more GTD topics a little more in-depth.

For now, you can go the Fresh Ubuntu site to listen: http://urltea.com/31av

Thanks to Harlem and Peter for a great time. And I hope to join them again soon.

Michael

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Things on my Mind

Hello again from the Deep South of Alabama. It has been 9 days since my last update so I thought that I would jot down some things that I have been thinking about lately.

Forgot to Mention:

I did forget to mention in my last post that I successfully completed the requirements for attaining my first IT certification. I talked about it in some previous posts that I was attending the SANS Institute’s Security Essentials Bootcamp in Sept 2007. In February of 2008, I took the requisite two tests and passed with flying colors (90 and 89). So now I am a GIAC Security Essentials Certified (GSEC) professional. I was quite excited since it is my first certification. My next goal is to get a Cisco CCNA. I am putting 4 new Cisco routers in my enterprise so I think that I need to get proficient in using them. I would like to complete the study for this cert in 2008 and have the cert by the end of the 1st quarter of 2009.

Ubuntu Twitterers join @pulseofubuntu

Ubuntu member, Jorge Castro, put up a great writeup about a new movement to consolidate the growing number of Ubuntu twitterers. I know that Christer Edwards and Dan Trevino were some of the first folks to talk about setting this up.

From Jorge’s blog:

One random day Christer Edwards said something along the lines of “we should organize all Ubuntu people on twitter and put that to good use.” Poor Christer made the mistake of having a great open ended idea, so I convinced him to implement it. :)


Pulse of Ubuntu is a twitter account that follows people around from the Ubuntu community. As you can see, there’s already a good list of people being followed.

You can check out the Pulse of Ubuntu site to see the conglomeration of Ubuntu folks. Not everything said directly relates to ubuntu. Maybe there is a way to parse it out by using hashtags (#ubuntu). I am an idea man, and not a programmer, so I will leave that up to smarter people than me. **hint hint Christer **

Back with a Vengeance!

Well, not really a vengeance because I am not really mad at anything. I have decided to try to kick start my blogging career on both my tech blog (what you are reading) as well as my productivity blog. I am starting here, with 1-ManIT, because there have been a lot more changes in my life in this area then any other. I will hit some of the highlights now with more meaningful posts in the following days.