My wee Wordle

This is what a month's worth of listening to music has wrought. Good times! Thanks Anne.

Unfortunately, I cannot copy from my Most Played app in Winamp, so I had to save it into a playlist, do lots of manipulation in Excel, then paste into Wordle to get it to work. I'm pretty happy with it.

Yeah, so, Facebook

I know, another social network; I need one of those like I need a hole in my head.

MySpace ... lies dormant, except for the semi-monthly check for messages and band updates.

MOG ... I still use pretty frequently, still do most of my writing there.

Multiply ... My most frequent place to be on the Interwebs, because the conversations here are so engrossing. I don't know how they figured out updating comments, but it's genius.

Last.fm ... I still scrobble, and that's it.

And now, Facebook. The main reason I joined was to allow me to keep in touch with my friends from church, and to keep tabs on Morgan, who has an account there. Plus, I see using my status messages as a new level of EMCD'ing. Check the current status, muwahahaha.

In fact, the reason I have an account at all is because the doofus decided he wanted an account last May, so he set one up, using MY e-mail address. It was a bit of a shock to find out I was a member of Facebook, then to realize what happened. I couldn't even get mad at him, because it was so stupid.

Anyway, I found Blair and Amber, and Jameson already found me. So hit me up if you're there. I'm not competing with Morgan for the largest group of friends, so whatever.

Please tell me I made the right choice ...

No, not about the election. I feel as comfortable as I can with my choices there.

If you read my previous blog (and if you haven't, go ahead, this isn't going anywhere), I posted that I had essentially been offered a job with Cognizant Technologies, to move to Omaha, NE and work as a Windows systems administrator. They had couched it in some strange language, but that is essentially when they were doing. They had not given me a definite salary figure, but the money figure being tossed around was far above not only what I'm making now, but way above market value as I have seen it. They also offered to cover relocation, which is something I've been wanting.

Today, I told them no thanks.

The reason I said no is because the position as described would not give me any additional opportunities for growth as a sysadmin. My responsibilities as a sysadmin would have consisted of hardware and OS, which is pretty much what my job is now. In fact, it's even less, as I manage the patching and security audits here and now.

They did inform me that they would consider fast-tracking me into project management, but to be honest (and no offense to the PM's here), that's not where I'd like to go with my career. I'm really looking to diversify my technical skills at this time; you know, get more into open-source, SQL, Exchange.

The HR person with whom I spoke was polite but clearly disappointed. I can't blame him, but I didn't want to drag it out any further if I had no real intention of taking the job.

Stil not completely sure I did the right thing though. ::sigh::