Month: September 2006

One Cool Text Editor

I've been looking for a good text editor for a few years now. Yeah, I wasn't looking really hard, but I had tried a couple of the usual suspects, TextEdit and UltraEdit-32. Both seemed good if not great, but the nag screen thing bugged me. I also didn't like the idea of paying $30-40 for a text editor. I mean, the colors are cool and all when I'm editing Perl code, and I like the advanced search and replace features, but I don't think that I could justify spending $30 for that. I'll just use notepad and wordpad if it comes right down to it.

But in this last round of searching for a text editor, I found PSPad. It's excellent for the price (free). I may never make use of all of it's features, but for my purposes, it's perfect.

Muchtall's New Groove

So it's been much too long since my last updated, but I figured I should say something before it gets to be any longer.

About a month ago I put in my two weeks at WealthSpring and took a new job at API Group Inc. I now do primarily Linux server administration. It's my dream job.

I didn't mind WealthSpring, but I needed to be in a certain place financially at this point in my life, and they just didn't seem to be willing or able to provide that. So I started looking for other work. I got an interview with another company and they brought me in for 3 interviews, after which they called me to inform me that the position has been reorganized out of existence. That day, while sitting at home with Kaylan, talking about the situation, I got a call from a recruiter. He sent me some information on the job and it sounded great. A couple of days later I was in an interview with them. A week later I had accepted and offer and I put in my 2 weeks that Monday.

I've now been in my new job for a little over two weeks and I love it. I'm working with Linux servers pretty much all day, I get to travel occasionally, and of course the pay is good.