Certified...fwiw

I'm a bit late with this since it actually happened on Tuesday, but I am now CompTIA A+ IT Technician certified! I passed my second certification exam Tuesday afternoon.

Yay me!

AVR GCC toolchain sideways upgrade

Wow, long title, eh?

Ok, so ever since I upgraded my AVR Eclipse plugin to version 2.3.1, I haven't been able to compile my code. I have been running the latest AVR GCC for Ubuntu 8.10 - version 4.3.0 from the repositories. So anyway, I decided I wanted to upgrade my AVR GCC after I was unsuccessful at upgrading my AVR Eclipse plugin.

Now like the post title says, I did it kinda sideways. Sure, I could have downloaded the tarball and gone that route, but I wasn't real confident in my ability to do it and not screw up. Oh yeah, I went to the Jaunty AVR GCC page to find the upgrade. So instead of installing the tarball, I went a step further to upgrade my distribution. Yeah, yeah, yeah, don't upgrade to a development distribution unless you know what you're doing, right. Anyway, I added

deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu jaunty main universe

to my software sources list and after it refreshed, I went into Synaptic, searched for AVR and selected the Upgrade option. I'm not sure if that is exactly what the option is, but close enough that anyone reading this gets the point.

So now I can compile. Hooray!

Merry Christmas

I want to wish all my friends and family a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Holiday party blahs

Am I the only one that really doesn't care much for holiday parties? Come on, really, what is there to do at these things? Eat. Socialize with co-workers. Eat. Eat some more. No wonder people gain weight during the holidays. Anyone that knows me knows that I'm not much of a socializer. If there isn't something to do, like play games or whatever, I tend to separate myself and get bored. Most conversations I really don't care about or can't relate to and don't participate in. Sometimes I don't know which is worse, the drudgery of work or suffering through another holiday party.

Sick as a dog

Well, my dog is sick. I will be leaving soon to take him to the vet. Poor guy, yesterday he just kept pooping and throwing up. Without having a fenced in yard we had to make do with putting him outside on the lead. He seemed to be getting better later in the evening and could actually hold down a couple ounces of water at a time. He is still having trouble keeping food down it seems. Since we have had kids with the same symptoms recently, we are pretty well prepared to handle it.

A new distraction

Dungeons & Dragons: Tiny Adventures application on Facebook

'nuff said

Free lunch w/spam

Me and my homies at work found a way to eat for free this week. Just sign up for the einstein bros. bagels e-club. The offer is good until the end of the week. The only downside is you are now on their email list.