The Time Has Come For Me To Go Job Hunting

So I am currently looking for a job. I just graduated from Illinois Institute of Technology this past spring with a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science. The main experience I have is as a System Administrator, I have been doing this for the past 2 years. I have setup and maintained both Windows and Linux servers. I also have programming experience in Python, Java and C# this is mainly from academic and personal projects. Along with Python I also have some experience with TurboGears from academic and personal projects. Besides work and academic experience, I have gained a great amount of knowledge about packaging and building software from working with the Foresight Linux project. For this project I help out with packaging and maintaining software along with quality assurance testing. So if anybody reading this post has an opening for a job please contact me via email at kharriss_at_gmail.com and my resume can be found here.

I may be more evolved, but I am still a klutz.

So on Sunday morning I was going to take my brother and his friend to the dinner right around the corner and right as I hit my front stairs, BOOM. I slipped and fell down 5 stairs and did a face plant, aka hit my face on the concrete, on the sidewalk. Here is a picture of the results.

Half Way There, Almost Summertime

As fellow students know that time of year is almost here, the time when all students take a giant sigh of relief at being done with another year of school. Well I am almost half done with this semester I have 1 more paper to write and 1 more final. Hopefully this paper and exam go well and so that I am done with my undergraduate degree and graduating this Saturday. I am looking forward to Friday afternoon when I will be finished with all of my class and ready to celebrate. I am also looking forward to having the time to work on my projects this summer. So far my plans for this summer are as follows:

• Projects




• Turblogo: A blog engine written in TurboGears


• Free/Open Source brewing software in Ruby


• Various Foresight packaging tasks




• Events




• Chicago GLUG meetings


• Chicago BarCamp June 22-23rd


• Gallbladder Surgery

Pay Your Dues

Tristan posted an article about Microsoft, Novell and the Linux kernel. In the article, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has said that every user of the open source Linux system could owe his company money for using its intellectual property. Tristan then came to an idea to send monopoly money to Microsoft to pay for using the Linux kernel. So lets all pay Microsoft for the code we use. You can print of money from here. The address is below:

Microsoft Corporation
c/o Steven Ballmer
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052-7329

With the money send this note:

Mr. Ballmer, Since you live in a fantasy world, thought we’d pay some fantasy money for your fantasy claim.

This is a good idea and I request that everybody help participate in this action. If you like this idea please mail some money and digg the story.