I’m going out of town for my brother’s wedding this weekend. I’m not very good at packing. Actually, it’s not that I’m not good at packing. It’s really that I’m not good at packing so much as I used to always forget something. It’s rare that I do that now, but I never feel like I have everything I need as a result. Anyhow, the whole process of traveling gets me a little flustered as a result. Plus, it’s a strange week already since I’m enrolled in that training class. It just feels like I’m not getting to cross many things off my to do list.

So it’s been a little while since I last posted and I thought I would give an update on the RedHat training class that I’m taking. The instructor is very good. He’s down to earth and willing to research answers to questions on things that he’s not familiar with. The manual is probably even better. It’s a very direct and concise guide with clear examples that will prove to be a wonderful reference to have after the class is over.

I have to admit that I was skeptical when I first signed up for the class. So many people have learned the intricacies of the linux kernel on their own, that it may seem a little unorthodox to take a class to learn these things. I’m almost done now and I’m convinced that this impression was right and wrong. It was wrong in that I really have learned a lot about the kernel and device driver programming. It was right in that I’m sure that I could have done this on my own only it would have taken a great deal longer to get to the point that I’m at now. Also, I’m not sure I could put together a better reference manual than the one they have.

I recently created a wikipedia account and made my first post on Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis. I was a little surprised to see that they didn’t already have an entry. There’s actually a lot of people who have bios on wikipedia that say they were buried in Crown Hill Cemetery, but there was surprisingly no entry for the cemetery itself.

All in all, I was pretty impressed with how easy the process was to create and update an article on wikipedia. I have used wiki style webs before, but I suppose I thought that there was a lot of anal moderation on wikipedia. Maybe there is, but I haven’t seen it yet and I’m enjoying it.