At work, I finally made some progress on the firewall upgrade that has been plaguing me for months. The last time I made it this far, I hit a licensing road block, contacted technical support where they promptly "baked" my management console. After rebuilding, I solved the licensing issue myself. Actually this time, things went smoothly - mostly. After a test during tonight's outage I will know if it is really working or not.
I would also like to thank Dr. Debao Chen for his fabulous smile. I have studied under him in two classes, rarely have I seen him crack a smile. Today I asked him to write me a letter of recommendation for Graduate school, he kindly obliged, and I tried to thank him in Chinese. "Your Chinese is very bad," he said with a huge grin on his face, this after taking a moment to decipher what I had said. Reflecting on his appearance at that moment, I have realized that this is the same smile that my Grandpa Gilbert gives from time to time, especially when he has made a particularly witty comment. My chinese is bad, very bad infact, but it was good to see him smile.
Now the amazing thing I have seen. St. John Medical Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma officially kicked off their Linux on the Desktop project. The aim of which is to determine if Linux could be used in their environment. I am tremendously excited about this. This is a huge change in the culture of the IT technology. I would like to thank IT President George Kendall transforming this dream into a physical reality. Comments around the office suggest that this project is his final shot across the bow before retiring this summer; George never did like Microsoft that much. Three cheers for Mr. Kendall!!
