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Well, as usual, I’ve been pretty busy lately. That’s nothing new, of course. Work generally keeps me pretty busy, but I don’t mind it so much now. There was a position open in our department for which I applied. A week ago Thursday, the day before my birthday, my boss’s boss came up to the office and asked if I still wanted it. I did, of course, so he said “It’s yours, effective Monday.” That was a very nice birthday present, since there’s a very large raise in pay that goes along with it (nevermind the fact that I’ve been doing all the duties assigned to this position for the last few months anyways).

So last Friday, Feb. 4th, was my birthday. 26. Geez, I feel so freakin’ old. The next day I started getting a cold and have pretty much left like crap every since. I left work about an hour early Monday to go to the doctor. I’ve been taking the antibiotics and whatever the other stuff she give me is and it seems to be helping a bit, but I still have times when I feel like complete shit. I didn’t even go to work yesterday.

I started, a week and a half or so ago, working on an outside project for a company ran by a friend of mine. I can’t go into the details of what kind of data we’re working with, but suffice it to say I’m working with some pretty large databases. The setup is far from ideal and it’s going to be a major PITA to get things to work how I need ‘em to. So much fun.

Today is the birthday of one of the guys that works for my department, Mike. He invited up to Bloomington for his birthday party tonight, but I’m not sure if I’ll make it or not. I’m sure it’d be fun, but it depends on how I feel. At the moment, I was thinking about going shopping today. My nice little Firefox extension tells me it’s supposed to get up to 55F today (though it’s currently only 43F), so hopefully it will be kinda nice out.

Oh, I made a post a while back where I talked about getting Apache’s modauthldap module to work with Active Directory as the backend for LDAP authentication. I’m pleased to say this has been working pretty flawlessly. I tested it out at home (mixed Linux/Windows environment) before putting it into production at work. There are a few web interfaces we have that I’ve whipped up for various things and it just seemed like the proper way to do authentication. Everything (almost) is Windows-based and every user has an account in our Active Directory anyways, so rather than give everyone a new username and password to remember, it’s just set up to check their credentials against Active Directory and allow access to the user depending on if they are in the proper (Windows) groups. Gotta say, it’s pretty sweet.