Unquiet Desperation

Looking for an exciting job? Do you have the chops to work for a cutting edge startup based in Los Angeles? Mahalo is in the market for a talented and dedicated Systems Engineer. We’re growing like mad and need a special someone to help us tend the health and well-being of our baby.

In the Jason’s words:

We’re looking for a really killer Systems Engineer here in Los Angeles to work at our very cool factory in Santa Monica where they will make their own hours (provided they at least make it in for the free staff lunch every day at noon :-), get whatever equipment they want, soak in stock options in the next big thing, and work with a team of totally kick-ass no BS developers who are KILLING it every day.

Interested? Get the details on Jason’s blog: Systems Engineer, Los Angeles.

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This time, we sit down with Andrea Gideon to talk about settling down in your home town…the joys, the pains, the issues of dealing the past. Andrea’s in a unique position to know…she and her husband Tom bought the house where she grew up, and walk the same streets that she did when she was in her teens.

Do we ever outgrow where we grew up? How can you look the old places with new eyes?

I’m happy to say that the first Refresh Cleveland gathering was a success. We met up for dinner and beers at the Winking Lizard in Lakewood, and topics of conversation included:

• We have a lot of talented folks in this town. Why are they not speaking to each other?
• The Cleveland Web Standards Association is a Good Thing. Go. Attend. Support.
• Cleveland Day of .NET and the Worthiness of Rails.
• The pitfalls of freelancing.
• General frustration with the tech-lag at agencies in town. Anyone just discovering that RSS is a Good Idea really needs to get out more.
• Never let marketers drive design or development decisions.
• Cleveland Web Association lunches we discussed. Snarky blog post to follow.
• Oregon Trail
• The keys to a good presentation.

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I think I’ve attended presentations that felt like this:

And for those who want to follow along here are the presentation slides.

For some reason, since switching to Wordpress 2.5.1, I’m getting blank pages when I preview. Anyone else seeing this? Anyone have a solution?

 

We’re having a little Refresh gathering tonight at the Winking Lizard in Lakewood at 7:30pm. There’s no set topic, other than tech in Cleveland and how we can improve it. Come join us!

Winking Lizard 14018 Detroit Ave. Lakewood, OH 44107-4522 Phone: 216.226.6693

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The Mahalo gaming team has been hard at work, pulling together items for your GTA pleasure:

• GTA 4 Cheats
• GTA 4 Walkthrough

Earlier today, I tweeted a question to anyone following me on twitter. “Looking for a good book on Linux Administration: Any suggestions?” Thankfully, the Linux Journal (follow here) picked up my plaintive cry and re-tweeted me to their entire following. Here are the recommendations I received:

• Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition (from minitotoro and chigh): this one is pretty good although a little bit dated
• Linux Complete Command Reference (via TheeCodePoet): has saved my life more times than I can count.
• Linux Administration Handbook (2nd Edition) (via xtine and jtollert): Both said this was a good one, and a great help.

I’m also looking at Linux System Administration, First Edition from O’Reilly. So far, they’ve never let me down.

Any input from you folks? What should I be reading to better understand Linux?