Afternoon Shoppers!
A quick blog post to catch up on happenings around the world of Shane. First off, the most important, I have found a new place to live! After headaches and teethgrinding trying to deal with my current landlord, I have found a little shack in Midland. It’s nothing flash, but it suits me fine, and more importantly is only 600m cable length from the telephone exchange. Hit us up with that Annex M collab homie! Got the keys on Friday, and I’m in the process of packing all my shit in preparation for the big move on Tuesday. And on the subject of packing, holy shit you don’t realise how much crap and other materialistic possessions you have until you have to put it all into boxes.
At work, I’ve recently been moved up to the Problem Management position. For those who aren’t familiar with the ITIL process, a problem is the root cause of an incident (something breaking, usually email). My job is to be the investigative force behind all the problems that give my team nothing but endless, repetitive headaches. This is awesome because 1) I no longer have to churn through the monotonous break-fix normality, and 2) I actually get to use my brain, and natural investigative and research skills to find the solution! No more money for me yet (that’s in January), so I will wait… very impatiently… I want the money. SHOW ME THE MONEY!
I am a valuable commodity! I go across the middle! I see a dude coming at me, trying to kill me, I tell myself “Get killed. Catch the ball!’ BOO YA! Touchdown! I make miracles happen!
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SMALL BUSINESS! I am in the process of setting up a small managed services business (called Room237). Basically I intend to provide all kinds of IT support, but mostly focussing at administration and management of small business websites and internet technicalities. Stuff like managing DNS records, email hosting, wordpress, e.t.c. It combines my love of system administration with the joy of helping other small businesses acheive their IT goals. Check out the very naked and unashamedly no-frills site @ http://room237.net.
On the WDHQ Minecraft front, I’ve recently started a Donation Drive. As people who have dealt with VPS’s may know, they aren’t always cheap. Especially not when you need lots of RAM. Minecraft loves to chew up ram like a fat lady loves cake. With this move to a life of solitary smut consumating exhile, I need help to pay the bills, otherwise, WDHQ Minecraft will end up moving back home to reside on the server of it’s namesake, WDHQ. Which isn’t a bad thing, considering my imminent move to awesome internet. So to donate, head to the donation page! http://minecraft.clonnyserver.com/donate
And uh, yeah. That’s basically it. If you’re reading this you’re probably already on my Facebook anyway, so you don’t need me to repeat everything else.
Peace.
Oh, and my back hurts.
