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Test post. I’m a total geek. I have now linked my blog with my twitter account.

traffic school done. authenticated online. completed test. case dismissed. no wasted Saturday.

This should always be our goal in terms of work.

This article is a great one on the topic of work.  I like the idea that the author start to put climbing the corporate ladder into perspective.  Here is quite possibly the best part of this article.

A good job requires a field of action where you can put your best capacities to work and see an effect in the world. Academic credentials do not guarantee this.

Nor can big business or big government — those idols of the right and the left — reliably secure such work for us. Everyone is rightly concerned about economic growth on the one hand or unemployment and wages on the other, but the character of work doesn’t figure much in political debate. Labor unions address important concerns like workplace safety and family leave, and management looks for greater efficiency, but on the nature of the job itself, the dominant political and economic paradigms are mute. Yet work forms us, and deforms us, with broad public consequences.

stupid online traffic school

Okay.  This is getting just short of absurd.  I now into the 3rd day of trying to get my iTunes library under control.  The original folder size that I started with was somewhere in the neighbor hood of 120 GB of stuff!!!!  Which was in no way correct.

My actual music library was listed as 60 GB, but that included on average of 3 duplicates per song.

So, lessons:  Keep your original source music in different folders somewhere, and don’t EVER point iTunes to the music folder that your original content is stored in because it will simply start mixing it’s own organization system with yours, and since the WORST thing that could happen is that someone might accidentally delete a song you really want, it errors on the side of caution and simply start duplicating things.  UGH.  Scary.

Anyway, I am now on to the 3rd copy and optimize attempt.  Wish me luck…

After a nearly three year experiment, I have decided to go back to a desktop machine at home.

Reasons:

1) My Gateway M8510 was getting really long in the tooth.  When the new entry level desktops are coming out with miles of more performance, it was tough.  Oddly, I could still do 95% of my work on a 3 year old Pentium M 1.73 GHz with 2 GB of DDR.

2) I had last year’s low-end Gateway system sitting in my closet.  A quick peek at Passmark scores showed that even a sad Sempron 2.2 GHz beat the living crap out of my system.  So, I pulled that low end system out of the closet.  Slapped an ATI Radeon X1300 into it (I can already hear webmonkey laughing in the background) and exchanged the 1 GB of DDR2 with 2 GB of DDR2 from my home server and fired it up.

Between me and my brother we had two low-end 18.5″ displays, so I have an expanded desktop for the first time in forever.

Sadly, this system is enormously faster than my crappy Centrino system.  So I am starting to see Intel’s logic in rebranding their ICs going forward.  I also found out what will drive the need for higher speed systems, virtualization.  I’ll start playing around with virtualization and trying to optimize my distributed systems at the same time.

Now, my upgrade bug has started again.