It's been another crazy long amount of time since my last bit of ramblings here and a lot has gone on, so here goes another bulleted list:

• New website. You're looking at it now. It's not a whole lot different but its better:
• the menus at the top are all CSS now and work in Firefox, IE, Opera, Safari, and Konqueror
• the menus are generated dynamically so it's super easy for me to move things around and not have to update lots of files.
• little slivers of color above titles so you know how you got to where you are.
• the title of the page in the title bar of your web browser now shows you where you are
• Random Image and Newest Album blocks on the left from the new Gallery 2 install which replaced the old Gallery 1
  
• Coming soon calendar block on the left so people can see where I am at the moment without having to dig around.
• Better layout using CSS for everything. HTML tables should be few and far between. The site can now fill up a whole window without problems so there should be lots less scrolling out there for those of you with much bigger monitors than me.
  
• Updated wantlist (get me stuff! its christmas time!)
• New documentation for how I run my server: watching the system for problems and dealing with lots of virtual hosts (Under projects->hosting at the top)
• coming soon
• better page navigation for news, portfolio, and things with lots of pieces
• updated bookmarks page which will be way better and maybe even useful
• old picture URLs from news will be fixed to work with Gallery 2 now that Gallery 1 is gone from here
• New Server- This website and a bunch of others are running on my new server. Its a dual Amd Opteron 246 with 2GB of DDR ECC RAM and a 120GB SATA raid 1 array. "pudge" is sitting in a colo downtown with a 1MB/s pipe and doing a much better job than the old box.
• BIkes
• Faster mustache continues to explode.  Lots of good times
• My old Gary Fisher Tasajara front suspension mountain bike is now a single speed no suspension commuter style bike with city tires. I've been riding it to campus and and all over the place. It's lots of fun and can take a bit more of a beating than the road bike. The ratio on it is 42:13 which is crazy hard but its good exercise.  I'm going to have to ride the road or mountain bike again and see how much better shape it has me in.
• School
• After 4.5 years with 10 semesters taking some number of classes, I've graduated from Georgia Tech. My last semster was all As which puts my final GPA riiiight below a 3.0. Final projects for Science and Technology Policy and Music Theory both turned out pretty sweet and they'll be available on here sometime.
  
• I'm hoping they let me into graduate school at GT but my GRE scores weren't anything special so we will see what happens a few months from now. The application is in and people are finishing up their recomendation letters.
• Laura and I made it to 6 months during which time my brother and his g/f got engaged. Crazyness.
• Work
• I did my first bit of Windows development at work and finished a service that runs on Windows Server 2003 and allows other machines to request a password reset via .NET remoting.
• I did my first bit of Linux system development with a module for pam that enforces password complexity requirements. It works on Linux, Solaris, and AIX and is pretty sweet.
• They guys I do research for at GTRNOC are looking for money to pay me next semester and perhaps through grad school.

Updates will be more often now that I have graduated and won't have any more official projects with deadlines to be working on at home.  Gallery 2 is going to get a lot more attention from me now and hopefully the XML-RPC module will be born. But enough of this for now. Its Firday night, who wants to go ride bikes?