Well I've been working like crazy and playing Minecraft.

Work has involved a new pursuit for me in the IT field - Linux. I've got Ubuntu 10.04 on a Precision 690 "power workstation" (i.e. huge workstation with server motherboard) and this thing is a beast. Dual Xeon server CPU cores. The fun part was the hardware (I'm such a bench tech), and now the software is... draining me. Getting Samba, SQL, Apache and Wordpress working on this thing has been a slow process... Samba (for filesharing with Windows machines) is working properly after about two weeks of wrestling with the config files, and so I've moved on to the other things. Apache is for web serving; this machine is supposed to be a prototype for a new web server. Since I know basically nothing about Apache and SQL, it's been an uphill battle :P Heck, I'd never even really used Linux before I built this rig. Since I'm a child of the DOS era, though, command prompts don't scare me and I cozied up to the Linux prompt pretty damn fast.

But things are going reasonably well as I stumble through the dark on this :) It's been draining but rewarding.

At home, been helping Luna with her projects as always and have also been playing a lot of Minecraft. I discovered the Tekkit Lite modpack and am happily building solar panels and considering the pros and cons of nuclear power as I grumble to myself about never being able to find enough damn copper for the wires and chipsets. Also gotta get that crossbreeding farm going.

As for art, I'd considered doing a series of pictures about my TRON character, L.I.N.C.S. For anyone who's played the TRON 2.0 PC game, you'd probably understand when I mention that my character handles virus code (the ball primitive), has several other weapon subroutines and has a custom-built super light cycle. But my ambitions always seem to outshine my actual artistic talent, so I don't know if I'm going to be able to pull off such a series of pics... or even have time to try.

Blah.