SOPA- ACT NOW
I’ve censored the following, in protest of a bill that gives any corporation and the US government the power to censor the internet–a bill that could pass THIS WEEK. To see the uncensored text, and to stop internet censorship, visit: http://americancensorship.org/posts/18574/uncensor
I ██████ ████ you won’t let the █████ ████████ ████ ████ ████.
4.74 Degrees of Separation on Facebook
Apparently, 6 degrees of separation has been shrunk down considerably. This is interesting to me, as lately I have been connecting with people I have met because they know disparate groups of folks I know. Also, I have abandoned Google Reader because of their stupid G+ end-run, and am now using NetNewsWire on my MacBook.
PIPA / SOPA / PROTECT IP Act – A horrible, terrible, awful, no-good idea
I know I haven’t posted here in a while. A long while, actually… But I feel this is vitally important and I am more than a little disturbed by the possibility that America, home of free speech and purported bastion of personal expression, is coming as close as it is to a horrendous, wholesale miscarriage of justice.
RHCE
Last week I took the RH300 course- the fast track RHSA+RHCE for seasoned admins. While I can’t talk about the details of the test, I will say that the class was awesome. I learned an awful lot about some very cool stuff, including selinux, LVM, filesystem ACLs, automount, and lots of other stuff I don’t ever use (but probably will, now).I’d heartily recommend the course to anyone interested in such things, and I’m glad I pursued this opportunity. Plus, I’m proud to say I passed the test with flying colors and am now rocking my very own RHCE!
GMail Inbox Zero. Dear Merlin- Thanks!
I have toyed with this concept before, and thanks in equal parts to Merlin Manns Inbox Zero, GMail, and my own epic laziness and lack of desire to wade through, well, crap, I have finally succeeded. I bragged on Facebook and got a few people expressing an astonished brand of envy, so I thought I’d write this up. I’ll admit- a prime mover for me was my Blackberry and Droid phones. The Blackberry handles corporate email, which is checked via Outlook in the real world. I hate Outlook, but it’s The Only Thing at work so I use it. That said, I’m writing here about GMail because that’s something I actually enjoy.