I’ve had a lot of thoughts come and go through my head without me getting the chance to post them. Some pertaining to religion, others to geek-related activities, and still more to re-developing the under-developed developing world. (If that last sentence made sense, props to you!)

I’m hopefully going to be a research assistant for a professor of mine here at CCU. He’s currently working on his Ph.D at Colorado School of Mines in Computer Science and needs to create a proof-of-concept software package for his research. Furthermore, he wants to make it a real, sustainable project - I’m going to push to open the source code and host it on sourceforge(http://www.sf.net) or a similar site. This might be the first time that I have a legitimate reason to use launchpad (http://www.launchpad.net) - really interesting since a friend of mine (http://joey.ubuntu-rocks.org/blog/) is the lead project manager for launchpad design and development. This is becoming an exciting opportunity and is the first time that I’ve been given a chance to develop a “real” software application with a legitimate goal and means of development. I’ll post more details later on it’s development, for now it should suffice to say that it is an interactive presentation tool for connected classrooms.

Linux. Oh how I love thee. There’s something about being in a classroom, bar, or meeting room full of Linux geeks that just makes me feel at home. Nowhere else can a joke be made about cron-jobs or relabeling a bash-script as an “Overcash.” Funny stuff. I’m participating in a LPIC study group that is facilitated by David Willson (http://thegeek.nu/) to get a bunch of people (from veteran bash-script gurus to absolute novices) prepared to take the LPIC certification test. It’s a great time, and it’s a great reminder of the reasons that I do love Linux. Yes, I use a mac. I’m still not convinced that Linux is a better OS for Desktop users than OS X. However, Linux is still my preferred Server OS. I’m not sure how much I’m going to learn through this process, probably tidbits here and there and particular command parameters. The real joy is helping others learn and pursue mastery of Linux and the CLI.

Someone remind me to catch up on my posts over spring break concerning everything else I’ve been thinking about.