1-Man IT Department

Farewell to Another Great Podcast

A little late, but still an important passing. You will notice to the right, in the podcast section, another [RIP] tag has arrived.

Chess Griffin decided to end his fabulous podcast Linux Reality at an even numbered 100 episodes in March. I have listened to most of the beginning ones, and most of the end ones, while taking a big break in the middle. I just noticed last night that he is offering a DVD with all 100 episodes that he made for sale. The cost is $30 USD, and is done through PayPal. I am not sure if there are any other options available or not. I am sure that you can ask Chess about that. All that you have to do is email him at linuxreality@gmail.com and he will send you a PayPal invoice and then send out the DVD after he receives notice of payment.

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.

Farewell to a great podcast

I am a bit sad this week as I learned my favorite IT podcast has recorded its last episode. In the Trenches was the first IT podcast that I found back in the summer of 2006 and it quickly became my favorite, while opening me up to other great podcasts including Casting from the Server Room and all of the Friends in Tech (FiT) podcasts and websites.

I was able to strike up a relationship with one of the hosts, Kevin Devin, as we had a number of things in common personally and professionally. He is not in IT anymore (he has moved to User Education), but he is still a geek at heart. Now he redirects his geekiness to his photography. He has some amazing shot, including this one that is my favorite. We are both baseball nerds (he loves the Mariners and I am a Braves fan).