Blogathon 3/15 – geeking all the way up to 11

If a little of what you fancy does you good, what does a lot of what you fancy do you?

I’m talking about industrial-sized quantities of what you fancy.

Because lately I seem to be on a huge geekfest.

A geekbinge.

A cornucopia of geekness.

An overflowing cup of geek.

It all started with a lot of thinking about one specific thing.

Which I’ve been doing since before Christmas.

The thinking, not the thing.

Although I have started the thing now.

But more of that thing on another occasion.

Then, a few weeks later, and with some valuable assistance, I managed to finish building the new desk in the new studio.

Once the desk had been finished, it only took me a couple of hours to complete the cabling.

And then, after something of a hiatus, the podcast was able to return to the airwaves.

Not actual airwaves, obv.

Then I replaced the keyboard on this laptop.

Then I bought some servers.

Ahem.

And a server cabinet.

Since then I’ve been reading up on Linux in general, and RHEL and CentOS in particular.

And I’ve been getting very familiar with various virtualisation tools.

But I probably won’t use ESXi or ESX Server.

I’ll use the native virtualisation feature in CentOS.

When I say ‘reading up’ on Linux, I mean that I have been really reading up.

Three huge industry text books.

I started with: Linux for Beginners: An Introduction to the Linux Operating System and Command Line.

Then I read: Centos 6 Linux Server Cookbook

And at the moment I’m working my way through: The Linux Bible.

I’ve also been playing around with puTTY.

And delving deeper in to WordPress functionality than I usually do.

One thing about WordPress that has always… annoyed is such a strong word… narked… me, is the unsatisfactory way that WordPress has handled tables.

Or not, to be precise.

But this evening I’ve found a brilliant table function which I’ve put in to a website.

Can’t show you, obv.

Because it’s related to the thing.

But it’s as neat as anything.

And I’ve also been out and ordered some network cabling.

And some internet connections.

And signed contracts.

And made plans.

But the bottom line is that all of these things – all of these recent activities – add up to a metric ton of geekdom.

And fun.

Unfortunately though, owing to circumstances way way way way way beyond my control, I haven’t been able to take any motorbikes out lately.

And I miss that – miss that so much – no matter how much happy geekyness there is in my life.

I’ve also been watching a lot of zombieness.

The Walking Dead, to be specific.

I think some of the zombies that feature in that series drive on the same motorways that I use.

So, with all this geekdom, and with the newly invigorated podcast, and with the reading, and with the zombies, and so on, I’m really not short of things to do.

And that’s fantastic, because I love being busy.

I just wish I was sitting on a motorbike instead of doing some of the geekishness.

How have you been passing your Winter months?