For most of the past year i’ve been existing without any meaningful sort of internet access. Indeed, for several months of that i was existing without even a proper computer, my nomadity lending instead to lesser forms of computing. For the first few months i was at the mercy of a dodgy notebook, and the remaining at the mercy of an even dodgier wireless connection

I needn’t tell even the daftest of pseudo-geeks that these things made it quite difficult and even more frustrating to try and get any real work done. Equally challenging was trying to stay adequately up-to-date with the tech world, a daunting task even for an independantly wealthy reclusive speed-reader with a ds3 to his livingroom. Suffice to day, i was no longer the super-heroi techie of yore.

Fast forward to now. My tan is fading, muscle mass dwindling and my consumption of caffinated beverages would make a Wet Planet lab rat wince.

In the last month and a half i’ve migrated 4 webservers, built a custom SCSI-RAID system, responded to 3 server outtages, built a web-usge reporting system for my own hosting box, excelled at Every-Extend, converted to Thunderbird, build a website, upkept another, won 3 games of internet chess, rebuilt 4 home PCs, broken 1, done 4 linux installs, started this year’s video project and caught up on slashdot. Oh yeah, and started a blog…. 3 times….. with different software, and integrated it into my site.

These are just my geeky endeavours, and only those off the top of my head. I’ve also managed to catch a few movies, make a bunch of skydives and manage to not completely alientate my girlfriend (i know.. i know… girlfriend = -100 geek points).

If all of this, however,still doesn’t qualify to return me to at least mega-geek status, consifer that i just drilled holes in the bottom of my computer tower to mount a harddrive standing on its side, as i’m out of space….. yes, it’s SATA, is that goodd enough?

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