Whatever's on my mind

It’s been quite a while since I posted something in my blog. I had to recover from not going to Debconf9 which was real sad. Right before the conference, I mean like a day before it, I got more or less sick and just couldn’t fly the next day. I managed to rebook the flight (thanks to SwissAir) for the next day but it wasn’t meant to be. I would have loved to meet the “Debian crew”, get my GnuPG key a bit more into the web of trust, discuss a few issues, envy the fast end evolved notebooks everyone else has… You can imagine it wasn’t easy to see the conference going its way via live stream when I was actually planned to be there. Again sorry to everyone who worked for me being sponsored and everything!

Anyways, time goes by and a lot happens, none of which I’d like to publish in a blog, except: I got a part time job. :) If you’ve ever asked me about my experience with Linux vServers or web hosting in general, and if you even asked me where to get such with fair prices and good support, I might have mentioned a small firm in Germany which I’m a customer of for a long time now. And about two months ago it just so happened that they called me. I admit, I know the owner of the company (haven’t seen him in a too long time, though) and I already considered us friends. But I was still surprised when he asked me to work for him. It’s not a big deal, he said, just administer the servers we’re running and take care of them. It’s a few hours a month, don’t worry, you can do it! All that with a scary smile… Now it turns out he had more in mind and I’m working on different projects at the same time, but still have the system (all Debian of course) at first priority. I have no clue if he’s satisfied with my work or if he’s just afraid to tell me (you know, us being friends and all), yet the systems are up and running and I’m learning every day. I even got the chance to write a small project in ruby which I wanted to do for a long time. Love it!

So, this is the first time that I recommend him not only because I trusted him with my system but also because I know your system would be safe. ;-) Need an IT partner in Germany or the Netherlands? o-byte.com

Uhhh, I have to ask for a raise after this hymn :)

Something else I forgot? Well, I became a DD but that’s also some time ago, so hmm… no, that’s it… for now.