What’s New

It’s been a while since I’ve written, so it’s probably well past time for an update.

Sad News:

• My aunt passed away at the beginning of last month. It was very sudden, and I’m still having trouble dealing with it.
• My MacBook Pro was urinated on (it’s a long story – email me if you actually want to hear it).

Good News:

• I was able to replace the MacBook Pro, and the other one was fixed!
• I was accepted at the Rochester Institute of Technology! I still have some paperwork to do, but as long as I keep my grades where they’ve been (or better) I’ll be set to go there in September.
• I’m all moved in to my new place. I like it a lot here. I’m in a house with 6 others.
• Things are well at work. I’m loving Shavlik NetChk Protect. I can remotely push out all kinds of software updates to the machines in an organization. Agile officially announced that anyone who purchases a 1Password license from today on will recieve a free upgrade to version 3.0 (which looks AMAZING so far).

I was reading a post on Lifehacker about getting Google to return results about you as the results on a search for your name. I’m not overly concerned about that at this point (I’m not looking for a job, etc), but I would like to be in the first couple of results for “Ben Woodruff.” Before reading this I had setup “Ben Woodruff’s Web Hub” so I already have a start, I guess. It’s an interesting read though, for anyone interesting in having themselves indexed in Google. One point that I wish I could follow more closely is the domain name bit. I own benwoodruff.net (which redirects to benw.us) but I would much rather have either woodruff.net or woodruff.com (so I can have the web address ben.woodruff.tld and email address ben@woodruff.tld) but neither of them have become available that I’ve seen. Anyway, something I’ll be working on. Tips appreciated.

More to come later. Hopefully I’ll get another chance to update sooner this time.