Yep, it’s true. And why not? The economic conditions are perfect. It just makes sense, and so I took the plunge. I found the house below and got it under contract less than two days later. This past week I compared mortgage lenders and finally decided to go with Bank of America on a 30-year fixed rate FHA mortgage at 4.75%. I uploaded the photos to my Google Picasa album. Check it out:
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| 20 Thorne Ridge Dr, Durham, NC 27713 |
Okay, so I haven’t updated ye olde blog in awhile. I’ve been – ahem – busy. Perhaps I need to borrow ibiblio’s bloggy to help out. Meh, I never was much of a blogger anyway.
The good news is that in the past few months, I’ve been focusing on things I care about, like doing more reading outside of computer-related fields. Also going to the gym, and rock climbing.
I also landed a new job, as a unix systems administrator at Tekelec, Inc. (My thanks to Bob Minowicz and the good people at ResolvIT, like Kate Lewis, for assisting.)
One of my tasked projects at Tekelec is wrangling in their unix systems with something called Puppet. It’s pretty neat and I’m psyched about it. Plus, it’s always good to be the Puppetmaster. Getting it to run on Solaris 2.6 — now that’s a different story.
As of today, I’ve migrated this blog to my own virtual hosting and updated to Wordpress 2.7.1. Now, maybe I will actually spend some time and select a half-way decent theme…
Motricity Saga Continues: Company Sues Former Top Executive
“When Steve Elfman, one of Motricity’s highest-ranking executives, left to join Sprint Nextel earlier this year, it appeared to be a bad sign for Motricity, which had just paid $135 million for Elfman’s company, InfoSpace Mobile. But in an interview with us a couple months later, Motricity’s CEO Ryan Wuerch sounded upbeat, and suggested some potential upsides to his departure: “He’s the president at Sprint (NYSE: S), which is a customer.” Sprint was never a good customer, right? “No, it was never a good InfoSpace (NSDQ: INSP) customer, but for Motricity it has been a customer for awhile.”
“Well, that optimism apparently vanished quickly: Just two days after the interview appeared in mocoNews, Motricity sued Elfman, according to the Kansas City Business Journal. The suit alleges that Elfman knew Motricity would only buy the InfoSpace mobile business if he committed to take the job of president and COO and stay for two years after the sale closed.
from mocoNews.net
Personally, I have no opinion on the matter. None whatsoever.
At the UNC game with friends…good times. UNC whooped up on GT 28-7. We sat in the student section.
Best UNC game I’ve been to in a long while! Truly Enjoyable, despite the ridiculously bad officials who made every call in Notre Dame’s favor. A few of my favorite pics from the game:
“And it’s good! UNC takes the lead!”
“Anxious Tar Heels await the Officials’ decision: it’s a fumble!”
GO TAR HEELS! 5-1 on the year!