This day in history...

I woke up early this morning (0600hrs) and watched a couple of podcasts while cooking breakfast. I gotta say, I'm really liking where Hak5 is going since the Revision3 acquisition. Podcasts are so great. Their content isn't driven purely by their funding sources which can really twist up an otherwise great show.

Anyway, the majority of my day was spent studying up on Ruby on Rails. I was catching up on all the 2.x.x version deltas from version 1.2.3. Not really all that different I suppose but I'm running through the book 'Simply Rails 2' by Patrick Lentz which is proving an enjoyable and informative experience. I'd recommend this book to anyone needing to update their Rails coding skills. In case any of you guys are interested in RoR development, here are some great podcasts on Ruby on Rails (found on iTunes): Learning Rails, Rails Envy Podcast, and Railscasts.

In the afternoon I moseyed over to our local Barnes and Noble and picked up a copy of Adam Smith's 'The Wealth of Nations', read the first chapter and was absolutely enamored. I really do enjoy the romantic notion of economics in all its glory. Economic theory tickles my fancy quite unlike anything else. It's part philosophy, part sociology, part statistics and probability, and part magic, and pure goodness.

I'm actually considering dropping my Computer Science major altogether to be replaced by an MBA in Economics. I truly love computers and all that has to do with them. Since I was 5 years old, in fact, I've been fascinated by the multitude of mysteries these machines offered that I may decrypt them. This mystery drove me to study and tinker and build and tweak these systems incessantly.

I've had a love affair with everything from hardware technology to networking to network penetration to programming to software development to processor architecture to kernel and driver development for as long as I can remember. It's always been just a natural ability for me. It always came so easily and I it enjoyed immensely.

This was true until I began working as a Network Administrator. At that point studying or performing network-related tasks became quite the chore. I don't want that to happen with the sister components I mentioned earlier. I still love and enjoy those remaining aspects of the field and I'd really like to keep it that way. I'm not willing to kill off one of my most intense passions in trade for money.

So, I suppose I'll be going for a business degree and study computer-related things on my own. I find that I learn much faster that way and get the bleeding-edge of the field instead of the outdated and outmoded information the professors blather on about in class.

Well, it's late here and I'm pretty tired. I can't wait to be back home in my own bed. Ah, to be home again!

Well, goodnight all.