Well, after a long time of not updating this thing...here comes the info.

Alot of things have happened since my last "real" update. Most importantly of all, CIS will be merging with another consulting/retail company soon to provide products and services. Still working on the details of the agreement, so I can't give very many details right now, but I promise I will in the future. But in general, this is going to improve services for our existing clients greatly.

All other things in life have been pretty much the same...aquiring some soekris hardware, waiting on 3.6, and generally not sleeping very much. Since winter is coming (its cold here now...ugh!), hopefully I will be more productive. Right now, I am planning on giving a presentation soon on OpenBSD's Cryptography Usage and Export Policies...more on the export laws and how they hurt more than they help. More on that later.

I never update this thing.

Ordered my new IBM ThinkPad T21 laptop from ebay on tuesday...awaiting its arrival. For some reason, I have not heard from the seller for a couple of days now...I just hope all is well, and my product will arrive soon.

Not much else has been going on...dealing with school, and the usual stuff. Been working on some tools for production use to simplify dot qmail file creation/modification/removal/etc. as well as some other useful math tools (written in pascal...yuck!).

Ok. I bought a new mountain bike. I settled with a Giant Rincon...which seems to be decent for the price I paid. Hopefully now the snow will go away soon so I can go trail riding at GRSP.

Not much else is going on...dealing with the ongoing battle of school work vs. playtime...playtime is winning so far this semester.

I don't think I am going to be doing much this semester as far as coding goes...I need to concentrate on graduating before I am 40.

OK...this is beyond being lazy. My list of things todo is not getting done for some reason...hopefully soon, hopefully soon.

Anyways, school started, and apparently we have so much snow, that the first week of school was cancelled...which is excellent in most aspects I believe. This semester is going to be pretty boring, as I am pretty much done except for a few classes, so I had to take a few extra courses just to fill my schedule up. The state of maryland did manage to make me take a chemistry course...something about "if you don't you won't graduate, and we will shoot you.." so I decided to go ahead and take "Chemistry and Society, which is a 100 level course...hopefully the professor won't expect too much work out of me. I also took an interesting history course and an International Studies course entitled "World Religons", which seems VERY interesting.