Ramblings

Well, we took off about noon to head for Tyler for lunch and a bookstore. We hit up TGI Fridays for lunch, which went well. Of course the usual LU ratio applied even on this trip. There were five guys and one girl, which is bad even for LU. So the waiter wasn’t the fastest or most helpful I’ve encountered, but overall it was fine.

After lunch, which started about two and ended somewhere around two thirty to two fourty five, we headed over to this bookstore called "75% off Books". It turns out that many of the books they had were marked down much more than 75%. I grabbed three books, all of which were marked down atleast 80%. I figured that even if these books aren’t the latest editions, they still have good concepts and general information in them.

I grabbed a book on DNS administration. It’s a bit old as it refers to BIND 8, but there is a ton of information on stuff other than the actual config files and format. I also grabbed a book on Apache 2.0, and again it is already aging a bit, but it does explain the concept behind many of the new features the were implemented. I haven’t really taken the time to figure out Apache 2.x as well as I had 1.3.x, but that was mainly because I haven’t used it much at all. All of my domains are hosted on Apache 1.3.x. I grabbed a third book, mostly because it was only $1, discussing game design. I really don’t plan to do any game programming, but it looked cool and it was cheap.

So we made it back to campus around three thirty and that brings us up to now.