Web server stresses, and maybe a change in life direction?
Created | Updated Sep 3, 2005
Not the best start admittedly. I imagine that someone out there is currently reading this, expecting there to be informative advice on SSL certification, when in fact all they will find are rambling nonsensical sentences, seemingly unrelated to each other. A brain fart if you will.
So, the heading is a wee bit geeky and It's going to attract loads of people who actually know what SSL is.
Blast.
I did actually have to update my web server's SSL certificate recently (well, I paid for the renewal, but have I heard back from my friends at Thawte, South Africa? Nope, not yet...) and I just thought I'd say 'ner ner ner ner ner', randomly to the world. I figured it out, and learned quite a lot about IIS (Microsoft's Internet Information Server product, which 'hosts' web sites) in the process. I won't go into the technologies involved, as they are boring as Slough. You see, I'm not an amazingly dedicated geek you see, I quite like my spare time and having friends, and I've found the three incompatable due to resource sharing problems (Oh dear). This leaves me in the slightly difficult position of having to learn about most new technologies, as and when they break down, or in this instance, expire.
I think this is true for a lot of I.T professionals, or at least in my experience, with those preoccupied with Infrastructure matters. Generally we aren't all obsessed with technology, but simply have a disposition for easily grasping concepts with a logical structure. I may be speaking for myself mostly, but what can say, I do love a generalisation! I.T is an industry filled with many very intelligent types, most (I think, disclaimer!) with absolutly no personal direction or ambition other than promotion and career progression. I.T is a good way of utilising an efficient brain, without realy having to show any real dedication to to any personal cause. It's a good way of being good at something, investing yourself into a discipline, excelling, without having to actually think about what you are doing with your time on this planet.
It's a specialist market, with no real agenda. Well this is true at least for me! Perhaps one day I will find my true calling (hhmm), and abandon this heartless marketplace for a more personally meaningful pursuit.
If I do find it, you can rest assured that I'll ramble on about it here, for your textual entertainment pleasure. Hey, perhaps rambling in this fashion to people, not unlike yourselves, could be my new 'thing'!
