Looking for things to decorate my walls. Already printed off the Flying Spaghetti Monster and Caffeine Molecule. Any other resources?

Watching someone put up the City's Christmas decorations along the street lamps.

I feel like I was up all night. Could have sworn I was asleep shortly after midnight.

Daydreaming about being a ninja

Downloading DamnSmallLinux-4.3RC2 for configuration into a security tools distribution.

Playing NwN. Staying away from the girly party going on downstairs.

Installing a minimal Ubuntu 8.10 virtualbox with the mini.iso

Playing NeverwinterNights from within Linux, without using Wine, and listening to the Linux Action Show. What could be better Saturday Night

Trying to put together a script to update Facebook from the command line. Not as easy as Twitter, it appears.

Kickin' it in Neverwinter Nights. Literally. I'm a monk. I do Kung-Fu.

Reading the Facebook API for setStatus() to complement my command-line social status updater.

Watching the snow fall outside. Saturday says there's no chance it's sticking around long. Take that, Old-Man Winter!

Rawking out like a mild-mannered superhero at work.

Chillin' like a villain. And stuff.

Wondering what the average age of a 5'8" 16 year old male is? http://ping.fm/62D6H

Power is out from a wind-storm last night. 30 minutes late at work.

Swung 10 votes Izaak's way.

Syncing my email addresses together. GMail makes it easy.

Done wasting time writing about command-line twittering. http://ping.fm/j6Zef

Like the rest of the world's geeks, I'm waiting on the Left4Dead open demo (a.k.a. Zombie Panic Spiffified) to go live.

Compiling TheGimp 2.6.2 because I hate the Ubuntu 8.10 layout of TheGimp. Here's hoping this one is different.

Converting ammo into experience points at a very good exchange rate. Hooray, Fallout 3

Just got involved in the previously mentioned "Linux is a Toy" troll. Whoops. I could only ignore the bait for so long.

Putting on a show for some very important clients. I was made to replace my coffee-stained piece of paper I use for a coaster. It was art!

Playing with Turtle Graphics. Turtle. Turtle!

Carefully excavating the top layer of beans, as I eat, so I don't plow through the Queen Bean Over-lard. I mean Overlord.

Poking my cursor around U of Calgary and Ohio State U's computer science dept. websites.

Printing off the Warcrabs! rulebook again. I intend to rework the PDF into a newer version.

Finally got around to setting up TortoiseSVN on my work PC.

Finished the Fallout 3 main story an hour ago. I'm sad to see there's no continuation after the finale. Have to start over or don't finish.

Waking up with the Linux Action Show at Jupiterbroadcasting.com

Could keep going all night. No time is a good time to put Fallout 3 away and go to sleep.

Heck yes! My "Zombie Survival Guide" just arrived. Undead, beware.

w00t. First snow up at Silver Star Mountain Resort. 3cm new snow, 0cm base. -1C. It can stay up there allllll winter, please.

Kickin' it oldschool

Still trucking through "Learning Perl", picking up good practices I may have missed from never reading the book.

Dead tired. Stayed up "just a little longer" to finish Sonic Chronicles last night. It has a satisfying conclusion.

I admit it, I'm looking forward to Animal Crossing on the Wii.

Addicted to Fallout 3 and the V.A.T.S.

Kiwi seeds are satisfyingly crunchy.

Daydreaming at work. Looking forward to a trip back to a Post-Apocalyptic Washington D.C.

Getting the feeling I'm almost at the end of the main quest for Fallout 3. Cool that Laim Neeson was cast.

Putting away Fallout3 after a 3 hour session. VATS FTW.

So many Tootsie rolls left over. Mmm, Tootsie rolls.

Breaking out the coconut rum and cola.

Being the crotchety old man, complaining to myself about kids and their firecrackers.

Helping the children of today become the diabetics of tomorrow.

Trick-or-treat'ing in the world of Medievia. You're never too old in Medievia.

Compounding interest on a $0.71 loan at 1/4% per second. Over 30 minutes later I'm currently owed $112 and counting.

Am looking forward to Pirates, Ninjas and Zombies (and Robots) tonight. Happy Day, everyone! Cheap candy starts tomorrow.

Pumpkins, carved: http://ping.fm/dFh1j

Downloading, yet again, the NeverwinterNights Linux installation setup. Those disks go missing more often than socks in a dryer.

Wow! The "DarkRoom" theme in Ubuntu 8.10 actually looks good.

When I eat my smarties I do *not* eat the red ones last.

Succumbing to the temptation. Reading a flamewar on alt.linux: Linux is a Child's Toy. Asshats a-plenty.

Installing Ubuntu8.10 in a VM and the process is looking slick.

Happy twice-annually Ubuntu Day!

Kickin' it in Dead Space. And then stomping on it.

Carving pumpkins

A look into the (potential) decision of speed of turn base battles within BioWare's Sonic Chronicles. http://ping.fm/ntWrY

Contemplating Sonic the Hedgehog and where he fits in relation to the rest of the Peaceniks.

"Don't think of pink elephants"... the effect of a Usenet post with the contents "Please ignore". You just can't do it!

Finding that I don't use 4 of these 10 "essential applications included in Ubuntu 8.10".

A few hours into it and still trying to figure out how Far Cry 2 is a sequel to Far Cry 1.

Surprise! Flamethrower plus dry grass in FarCry2 = awesome! Whoa.

Sitting at work, wondering what it might be like to step into a post-apocalyptic world after a life from birth to 28 years living in a vault

Happy Fallout 3 day, everybody.

Cool. I've just been declared Master of Peggle.

It has taken a year but my bonsai potato has finally started to sprout upward. Pics to come soon.

It's that time of the year again. Sitting down to watch Dead Alive (aka Braindead).

Updating VirtualBox and adding OpenSolaris to my troupe of Ubuntu and Debian guests.

Amazon has got to be joking! Items: CDN$ 8.58
Shipping & Handling: CDN$ 58.41

Trying to remember the term for storing data across many tables in a database rather than just one or a few... R-something? Level? Number?

Missing out on Medievia's Halloween-week festivities. I usually dress up as the Goblin King in the Labyrinth. Maybe the lurking grue.

Maintaining code to the tune of "NOFX - You're Wrong"

BioWare presenting "Star Wars: The Old Republic" MMORPG?!?! I almost pooped my pants!

Still messing around with OOP in Perl. It's now making sense. Might give MOOSE a try later.

Finishing up a 7.5 hour stretch with some MC Frontalot. Ping Pong, step up to the table. Ping Pong, put the ball in play!

Rawking out to Gob. One week with Rockbox has proven it's convenient and functional... and a little slow at times.

Learning how to create Perl classes. Always in the back of my mind I wonder if I should just skip Perl and head straight to Python.

Sharing the PSP and Ubuntu love. http://ping.fm/IPFwk

Max Payne, the movie, was freaking awesome! With an exclamation mark awesome.

Rawking out with my Hawk out. Going to watch Max Payne in theatres. Bullet-Time FTW!

I vote for a weekend of horror movies. I'll supply the "Dawn of the Dead" remake and "Alien Apocalypse".

I'm becoming my parents! >-|D:{

Messing around in SQLite and probing my data with SQLite Manager in Firefox. Nifty!

It's the middle of October, which means University students are in mid-term mode. I've been out for 10 months and don't feel sorry for them!

Rawking out to "Rhyme Torrents Halloween E.P."

This just in: Mice Run Amok in Office. Hilarity ensues.

Rawking out to Beefy. http://ping.fm/iJFXJ

Still Here

With the purchase of a website and hosting, as well as living on other sites such as Twitter, Pownce, Facebook, etc. It's kind of hard to find a purpose for Blogger. It's dear to my heart, my first blog.

So here's the occasional update saying, "I'm still alive". And I'm still trying to find my purpose in life.

OH HAI!

I haz a website!

So I'll probably export my blogger and archive it for history.

The bigger the tool...

It seems that the bigger the blogging tool the more work it takes to update. Mostly true only in the sense that Blogger allows one to type an almost unlimited number of letters/characters. Twitter restricts the user to 140 characters and Pownce, while not strictly limited, allows a much smaller viewable post than Blogger but still slightly more than Twitter.

So it follows that I update my Twitter the most frequently, followed in turn by Pownce and the least frequently updated is my Blogger account.

http://twitter.com/kdnewton
http://pownce.com/waggy

And for those with even more curiosity,
My flicker page.


Socially networked. Giving in a little at a time.

-Kyle

Blogged with Flock

From the desktop of... Flock

Yeah, I'm testing out this nifty new web browser. You might have heard about it. It's called Flock. You know, no big deal.

Actually, it seems that it will be a big deal. I'm really enjoying this whole integration of media and social tools into a web browser. Sure, everything that is done here in Flock can be done in Firefox with the use of plugins, but it's nice to have something working out of the package like Flock.

Blogged with Flock

Wii commercials

Crazy that Nintendo is considering pulling Wii advertisements because the system is selling so well. I purchased mine in April of this year, and that was after almost three weeks of searching.

Engadget has the story.

To do

Things to get done:

1. Complete the story line to The Elder scrolls IV: Oblivion


2. Move on to the Shivering Isles expansion for Oblivion


3. Purchase and complete Bio Shock


4. Purchase The Orange Box to play through the rest of the Half Life 2 episodes

Introverted

Digg recently brought this article to my attention. It's about people who tend to keep to themselves. People who are introverted. I liked it.

the cost of support

Holy crap!

For lack of a better exclamation. Yeah! Holy crap! The kind of holy crap that's brown and sticky, like a stick. What have I been learning during my training at work? Well, I'm not sure I can say too much. But I've learned that in the first half of a work day there easily 400 calls placed for tech support. 400 people in the first half of the day (and I've heard it can get up to 8000 in a single day) willing to pay $39 to $69 for someone to uninstall and reinstall a freaking piece of software! And that isn't even the business rate! That's the personal home-computer rate for regular people. I understand not everyone has a daughter's boyfriend who can troubleshoot their computer for them. But get this, I'm paid to search through the product websites support page. Yes, that is right. Most everything available to me is available to the public through the product support page. Look here, I've done a search for "blue screen" and come up with lines I can feed the customer over the phone. For $39~$69 per troubleshoot I think I'd look into fixing the problem myself.


-I'm fine with helping people, I just don't agree with the outrageous fees

More flair

Like Jennifer Aniston's character in the movie Office Space

I don't have enough flair. I mean this in regard to how I write my blog posts. I don't even want to read them myself. Regardless, I begin my training tomorrow as awesome expert-tech support for Symantec's Anti-Virus software. I will keep you posted. And maybe have a little flair. If I make fun of the customers who call then that might bring a little something extra [Edit: I meant if I make fun of them here in my blog. Not on the phone!]. T-Minus 6 hours 30 minutes until I need to wake up (yes, 5am) to get ready for work.

-Totally wicked awesome phone answering guy

how to ace an interview

How to ace a job interview.

I'd been looking for work this last week and a half. Usually I'd be working with my professor at the University I attend, continuing the research I've been working on since summer 2004. My professor didn't get the funding she was expecting this year so I've had to look for work elsewhere.

I thought I'd try my luck with emailed resumes this year. It's worked. Monday morning I email a cover letter (forgetting to attach the email) at 9:30am (mere moments after waking up ~ my laptop is set up beside my bed). I get a phone call at 10:25am to set up my assessment and interviews for Wednesday.

How do you ace your interview? Apply somewhere you will be comfortable working. I'd applied at a technical support call center. I'll be working on a computer and telephone speaking with people about something I (for the moment) am interested in. So I showed up at 10:55am and was calm. I smiled and shook hands and dressed to impress. I had written my application and 45 minute assessment and had my first interview within the first half hour. I was asked to come back for a second interview at 3pm and unofficially I had the job. The 3pm interview lasted less than 5 minutes and I was off back with the first interviewer congratulating me on my new employment.

Apply somewhere you will be comfortable working. You'll come across naturally in your interview and make a lasting impression (at least I hope so, I'd like a raise already) on the people you meet.

-Will be looking for a real job for January 2008.