life in wausau is still going well. i'm moving to a different project at work next month, which will be good for me. my current project has been extremely lacking in actual work for the past several weeks. that and my new project will be actual development, which is much more suited to what i went to school for (i was actually hand-picked by two ( Read more... )

One of my focuses in college was computer security, and it's still a hobby of mine, so trust me on this:

If you run windows on your computer, go here, here, and here. Those links are to McAfee's, Symantec's, and Malwarebytes' websites respectively. If you could not get to any of those websites, you may have gotten the Conficker worm. Go to ( Read more... )

i got home from work less than an hour ago, fired up itunes, hit shuffle, and let it go. as i was cleaning out cat poop from the litterbox, the song "barbarian horde" from the gladiator soundtrack came on. let me just say that i love that movie, as it has an amazing plot, great action, and great music. this particular song was used in the ( Read more... )

i've decided recently that i need to address certain issues in my life that could be better. it helps me to write about them, because when i write about something, i have to think about it, and thinking about it helps me to understand it and do something about it. that and putting it out on my blog means that others will be aware of it as well, ( Read more... )

well, a lot has happened in the past monthish, yet at the same time, very little has happened. there hasn't been much of anything that i would really "write home" about, but a lot of little things have happened, like me starting to get back into music, both listening and playing, or finishing stone dead last in a snowshoe race on lake superior (i ( Read more... )

today, i got a checking account that has higher interest rates than any savings account i've seen. awesome ( Read more... )

my computer came today! and by came, i mean that i went to the UPS dispatcher 2 miles down the road to pick it up because they would only deliver it during large chunks of time when i was at work (didn't feel like waiting or taking off of work to get it). so after a lot of chasing and such, i picked up my 42 pounds of computer, monitor, ( Read more... )

so i graduated almost 3 weeks ago ( Read more... )

my graduation ceremony is on saturday afternoon. during a graduation ceremony, it is not uncommon for people to dress up as superman and pull of their gown upon receiving their diploma. i thought about doing something like that, except i lack the required superman outfit ( Read more... )

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during camp, we would always joke about the rama (i had no idea that they were known as 'sist') and talk about them and such. i didn't think that they would go so far, though. it makes me really worried because shawano's such a nice place, and there are a lot of good people there. i hope this ends well.