So what does this transfer process mean to those few people who check my blog every once in a while? Nothing for you. Except maybe now I will be able to start posting more due to the fact that pretty much everything has been migrated over. There are still a few things which haven’t migrated over yet, but I am working on that.

Ah, and now my life feels like it has free time again. Of course, that is only an illusion, I know that my time in my life will never be able to actually be “free”. If I’m not at work, I’m at home either working on a side project, studying for a test, or taking care of my dogs to ensure that they are optimally taken care of. Then of course, there is the recreational activities that I once in a while get to participate in. Again, that’s not all the time, but its better than it has been in the past.

Ah well, this is my commitment to my blog and the few people that actually pay attention to it that it will be updated on a more frequent and regular basis. At least once a week. Maybe.

If I feel like it.

It’s amazing how little things in our life can create joy and grief at the same time. It’s always fun to live life. Which makes life random and fun.

Well I’ve had my iPhone for a little while now, and I can say that I honestly like it. True its basically a stripped down Mac(and no..my next purchase is not a Mac—if it is someone please kick me!) that fits in the palm of your hand. For the fact that it is a stripped down computer, I am thankful since it provides a few more options than your standard cell phone. The latest windows mobile software, I do have to say, does look good and looks like it might present a somewhat of a decent challenge to the iPhone when a touch screen version of it comes out. Version 6.1 of windows mobile has a pretty decent interface for a mobile phone. The interface can be seen at BoyGeniusReport.com and looks pretty good I must say. Not as simplistic as the iPhones, but hey, nothing can be perfect, right?(There are problems even with the iPhone interface—such as–its TOO simplistic at times)

Ok, off of my fetish with the iPhone.

Something that has been interesting to hear at work recently is that the upper management kind of has this renaissance that they want to bring to the company. It honestly sounds exactly like what google does. Its funny. But as more comes through, I’ll reveal(maybe–depends on corporate policy) what is happening. But for now, this seems like an excellent opportunity to be on the ground floor of something amazing that will simply change the world for the better. Yeah, everyone has heard that already, and I know how that is taken(huge grain of salt that can salatanize the entire ocean) but this will be something that you will hear about more and more, how VCPI and Extendicare are changing not only the healthcare industry but also the long term care industry.

One of the cool things about working at VCPI is that I get to be involved with a lot of different areas around the company, even if I don’t want to be sometimes. In the end, though, it is really cool. Annoying at times, but helps you learn what you need to do quickly. Lets just say that Cornerstone was a good learning experience, but being here at VCPI has been like being at technology boot camp the last few months. I have only been here 7.5 months and I am just really starting to get a grasp of everything here. It seems like everyone here flounders for the first few months(6 months actually) and then after that they start to get on their feet and are able to start doing amazing things. I’ve been fortunate to be stuck on the financial team. The financial team(and yes, there might be a little bias here–but not that much) is one of the strongest teams on the desk. Currently there are four of us–two of which also play a dual role as tech 2’s, so they have a lot more to do and leave as much of the financial stuff to us “financial” techs. We kind of get to be jack of all trades group–we have to be able to do tech, networking, basic programming(interpriting/understanding login scripts, create batch scripts for drive mappings, printer mapping scripts, etc…) and understand financial concepts–and many times we have to do all of these in one call! Being a jack of all trades lover(in most games I play the group/job that is the jack of all trades and not the specialty person–so I guess this fits me!) being a financial tech excites me!

Ok, well the call volume is going up, so I probably get going. But yes…another post was needed

I had written really briefly about andLinux in my last post on my blog, well today I discovered something really cool about it. For whatever reason, the Konqueror web browser is able to connect to some sites and bring up digital media content that neither firefox or ie is able to bring up at work. I have some theories about this, one being that the two being big players in the web market comply with group policy settings, but its kind of interesting that something like this will just ignore whatever is causing both IE and Firefox to ignore flash media while browsing the web. Of course…konqueror can not always play all of this media…but that is beyond the point…way beyond the point because that can be fixed with a few installs in linux.

Speaking of the powers of Linux. I have begun to use the windows power shell more and more. I am finding that it has some interesting abilities, and one of which is to run an script every once in a while which finds any and all processes which are using more than a specific amount of memory with the option to immediately kill them. It is with this in mind, that I think that windows will eventually start to head the way of linux, with a powerful command line interface in the background that can do everything that the gui version can, and the die hard geeks out there will start to run only in the command line and argue with anyone that uses gui only.

Ah the day when Microsoft Windows can be considered a geeky operating system…..it never has…but given the improvements in how microsoft is handling things as elementary as the command line….it will probably be less than 20 years!

And to my former CU coworkers…never complain about the pager….for on call duty I get three cell phones and a laptop—one cell for calls, one for email, and one for text messages…..what the heck?