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Month: July 2006

Sit and WoW it up!

Published by NiteMayr on July 31, 2006

It was a busy day today (fun new Vox goodness notwithstanding)

With big goings on at work and groceries (with the fun that goes hand in hand there) it was a reasonably busy day.

Got to sit down and pore over a 120 meg packet capture, it’s not the biggest I’ve had to run through (3 Gigs) but the info I was looking for was right at the end and I learned a new filtering technique for plain text protocols [contains TEXT] after that it was easier to find what I was looking for (thank goodness)

I must have driven my co-worker insane with so many calls (after hours no less) giving him feedback on what I found.

To top it all off, it was PAYDAY!!!!  Another chunk of time comes up where I can try and not spend money.  Which I am terrible at doing.

Good Advice, Not So Much

Published by NiteMayr on July 31, 2006

What was the worst advice you ever received? Did you follow it?

Always think of your old friends before your new friends.

I had just spent a long evening with a new fiend, who admitted to cheating on her Boyfriend with a friend of mine and her Cousin.  I stupidly thought I’d be doing her Boyfriend (an older friend of mine) a favour by telling him, instead I dropped the final nail in the coffin of an already dead relationship and ruined forever many other friendships with people who thought I couldn’t be trusted.

Damn.

My Reading habits

Published by NiteMayr on July 31, 2006

Argh, I read.

Now, this is no real revelation for you, this is a textual media after all, reading is fundamental here.  What I mean is I don’t read enough, not even close.  I always have a book or two on the go and can claim that I can read 3-4 novels in a week (on top of way too many comics) but I’ve gone so long without a non-fiction book that I might actually scream.

I’m looking forward to reading “What would a Patriot Do?” and “Imaginary Weapons” but they always seem to be in the future.  When I’m reading, I’m probably not writing, which confounds me further as I would like to finish my current work and go on. It is an embarrassment of choice I tell you.

Add to all of this the fact that I’m back on WoW (for my wife) and I have no time any more (or it seems like it)  I wonder if I could convince myself to read in bed again?  I used to all the time.