Check the timestamp, I'm still at work! Woohoo, going on 14 hours!

Today is one of the most frustrating days of my life. Slashdot has been down ALL day (which I usually check once an hour) and I have been at work for 10 hours now. Mac OS Server X 10.0 needs to die.

After seeing how Fisher-Price-esque Windows XP has become and how it is horribly ripping off Mac OS X, I just had to make this image.

Here are the things I will be learning about in the next few weeks:

• DOM
  • W3 Specification
  • Apache XML
• XSL
  • W3 Specification
  • XSLT.com
• MySQL
  • MySQL.com
  • Foreign Keys (Which MySQL does NOT support.)
• CVS
  • CVShome.org
  • Setting up CVS

Most people say this is what I look like normally.

Possibly offensive acts and what certain religions think, all distilled down into a single table. Now you can see easily why the only religion I have ever followed was Buddhism. (Link found in the comments section of Fark to a story about an offensive ad. The ad shows a Catholic man in the line for communion holding a bowl of onion dip. Sweet. Check out the comments for a scan of the ad.)

Sick of spending most of my days just trying to find something to keep myself busy, I have decided to get some certification. The first one will be A+, which most people think is a joke. I figure I can get this certification with no training. It covers basic hardware skills and DOS/Windows skills. The hardware portion is as basic as "Is this a power supply or a video card?", but gets a bit more difficult with "Is this RAM chip ECC or not?". What they call the Operating Systems Technology is just an overview of DOS/NT/Win9x/Win2K. The OS exam covers basic Windows installation, troubleshooting and networking. If I can't pass these tests, my legacy as a failure will go down in history. If (once) I pass these exams, I will try my hand at something actually difficult. Too bad there isn't a generic sysadmin exam. There are exams for linux sysadmin, Redhat sysadmin, Solaris sysadmin, and AIX sysadmin. If there was a BSD sysadmin cert, I would be all over it.

I really shouldn't make this public already, but I created an online scrapbook. More specifically, this is a scrapbook for my high school class, created in PHP using MySQL. Let's hope this is actually used.