JRRZZ Blog

Okay, everybody has got plans. Right? Not everybody fingers for them anymore, though. It used to be such a nice method of finding out what someone was up to. Just fingering around, you know. “Hey! How’s your holiday been?” “How did you know?” “I fingered you for it last week.”

Enough with the geek humor. I’ve got quite a nice list of activities lined up for this year.

At e-Viela!, the office if you will, I’ve got some programming work to finish. After that’s done I can join a great project to create a Debian GNU/Linux powered terminal server cluster. It’s going to be huge, hugely awesome and equally fun to operate. Several hundred people will be able to experience the fastest desktop experience ever experienced by man. Maybe I’m overrating it a bit. Anyway, it could incorporate toys like HTTP booting thin clients, dynamically distributed KVM instances, ZFS and much more.

Unfortunately I’m not finished with my education just yet. In the next semester I’ll work for the Embedded Linux lectureship, advising companies about using Linux in embedded environments. It’s going to be lots and lots of research, some electronics and a bit of coding. I hope I’m allowed to share my research with the rest of the world this time. All I know about the projects at hand right now is that it’s going to involve the ARM architecture, hardware I/O interfacing and “standard” procedures I’m not all too happy with. But hey, we can’t have it all.

I’m going to jump on the Rails bandwagon. It’s a bit late, I know. I’ve still got the Barrato web shop to maintain, and it’s getting really nasty with a 5 year old PHP code base. Since I’ve already met Ruby and fell in love ever since, Rails would be the logical platform to create v3 of the web shop with. I’ve bought a book, a server and loads of Dr. Foots and peperkoek. I’m sure I can manage with having made this preparation.

Now I’m looking at semi-permanent employment at e-Viela!, banks will take me seriously. This opens a shitload of financial possibilities and accompanied death traps. I’m looking for a nice little apartment of my own. Nothing crazy, just the necessary luxuries. I’ve never felt like living in a student apartment, sharing and caring with everybody, spending heaps of rent for sub-par living comfort. No, just give me a modern compact kitchen and bathroom, a living room for me and my guests and a bedroom where no magic will ever happen. Oh, and a little corner for Lucifer’s shrine of course. I’m afraid no apartments come with complimentary CAT-6 cabling and wall sockets.

Oh, I almost forgot, I promised myself a Guzzi for my Bachelor’s degree. My motivation was running low, so this is my way of compensating for that loss. I’ve got to bribe an instructor for a driver’s license first of course, but that won’t be that much of a problem. The Guzzi I’m talking about is the coolest bike ever built. The Moto Guzzi Griso 1200 8V. The Italians have done the impossible. Making a loud, powerful bike look sexy. Just listen to that v-twin, it’s like speed metal on a Sunday. This is an Epic Want.

This is a bunch of Czech people playing around with an older (1100?) orange Griso. I mean, even in orange it’s beatiful.