I just got word that an offer letter is coming my way! Woohoo! Providing the i’s are dotted and the t’s are crossed, the job search should be over!

It’s not a moment too soon, either. As some wise person remarked “romance with no finance is a nusiance.” The strain of having no income was beginning to show around here. It was exactly one month ago yesterday that I got “let go.” Funny way of putting it, isn’t it? “Let go.” Kicked to the curb. Dumped. Fired. Sacked. Laid off. Call it what you may, it 5uX0red. But its over now.

I’ll save the celebrating until tonight, when the Nickel Slots take the stage at The Pour House in downtown Raleigh. Right now, I’ve got to finish building a server for my friends. It’s gotta be in Chapel Hill this afternoon.

After reading my own blog (shocking, isn’t it?), I realized I was busting too hard on Eric Raymond. Well, maybe not, but the guy stays pretty busy. Who am I to fault him if his software doesn’t work?

After contemplating that, along with my broken and woefully unmaintained bplog blogging scripts, I hit upon something.

“Hey. This is open-source software, dumbass,” I thought. “If it breaks, I get to keep both pieces.”

So I imagined what ESR would say if I told him Bogofilter doesn’t work. He might say “well, fix it your damn self.” Ok, not knowing Eric that well, he might not really say that. But he could.

Thus, I have discovered the perfect open-source motto: “Fix it yo’ damn self.” Don’t like something? Dig in. Go crazy. Nothing stopping you from greatness.

So open source users have nothing holding ’em back. Kinda cool.

“Fix it yo’ damn self.”

I’ve been chatting with Doc Searls via email for the past day or so. After visiting his page on a regular basis, I let him know that I enjoyed reading what he had to say.

Today, he put a link on his blog back to my site after I told him of my brother Jeff‘s wonderful experience with the helpful folks at WRAL HD. WRAL was the first station in the country to broadcast in HDTV. Yet for all of their high-tech foresight, they still haven’t forgotten the number-one rule in business: customer service.

To all the visitors from Doc’s page, welcome! I hope you’ll find interesting reading here. It takes time to write. Especially for me, since I tend to sweat over every sentence. Guess being married to an editor can have that effect, huh.

In spite of the time committment, the feedback I’ve gotten on my writing has really made it worthwhile. For now, the only feedback I can get is through email. I have yet to fix the comment part of my Bplog scripts, as my friend Tanner (among many others) likes to point out. Maybe the rainy weather this weekend will compel me into some hacking.

Anyway, make yourselves at home. I’ll do my best to keep you entertained.