Back to the grind today as vacation is now over. It was a fast paced day and after fighting with a problem for 6 hours, I was able to fix it and get a machine working again. No lunch when working on these kinds of problems where people are waiting for the system to be ready. At the end of the day it is all worth it. I was told all my hard work over the last year is being rewarded and I have achieved the respect of my peers in the office. Now that the work day is over, I get to sit back and work on my pet projects. This week I am working on digitizing the home cd collection so that I can store the media away as we listen to most of our music in mp3 format anyhow. One of us is usually always near the computer. I am using CDex to rip the music and compress it into the mp3's. It works great. It even has a sweet autolookup to freedb.org to get all the song titles. Even better, it's an open source project.