I was cleaning up files on my laptop and ran into a familiar problem: duplicate files. Nothing dramatic. No emergency. No incident response plan. No dashboard glowing red like it wants attention. Just files. The same document in one folder. Another copy somewhere else. Another one sitting around because at some point I probably thought, “I’ll clean this up later.”
Creating a new Active Directory user is not hard. It is not hard enough to feel important, but it has enough small steps to become irritating. Type the name. Pick the OU. Copy the department. Copy the title. Maybe copy groups. Set a temporary password. Force the user to change it on first login. Then stare at ADUC like it
Disclaimer: Some profanity is present because apparently I am yelling at myself in writing. Proceed accordingly. I should be using this break to learn Linux and networking. That is the whole complaint. No classes right now. No assignments. No discussion posts. No deadlines. Nobody asking me to write something in APA format like a misplaced comma might trigger a federal
It’s still summer and I still don’t have classes. This is how trouble starts. Some people relax. Some people travel. Some people touch grass. I opened PowerShell and thought, “Can I build Snake in this?” That was not a normal question. But it was a productive one, which is how questionable decisions survive review. The answer was yes. PowerShell can
I call this one Lazy Mode. Not lazy in a bad way. I mean lazy in the good IT way: if something has to be done the same way every day, a script should probably be doing it. This started with a daily backup and restore process. The task was simple: download the latest database backup file from a secure
I recently put together a learning path for myself. And honestly, it is ambitious. This is not a small plan. It is not just a list of books to read or videos to watch. It is a serious path that connects my MAS-GIT program, my plan to study Computer and Network Administration at SELU, and my long-term goal of pursuing
I used to think I was done with school. That was the plan. Finish what I was already working on, close the laptop, breathe like a normal human being, and finally say, “That’s enough academic suffering for one lifetime.” Apparently, I cannot be trusted with my own life plans. Because now the plan is different. I plan to pursue the
In one of the labs in our Advanced GIS Applications course, we used ArcGIS Pro and Random Forest machine learning to predict the percentage of households without internet access across U.S. counties. That sounds more complicated than it really is. The idea was simple: take county-level data, prepare it properly, train a model, test it against data it had not
There are countries that lose wars. There are countries that lose money. There are countries that lose leaders, elections, industries, borders, and dignity. Then there are countries that lose faith in themselves. That, to me, is the quieter death. Not sudden. Not dramatic. Not the kind that arrives with smoke, sirens, or a final scene worthy of history books. It
Some people talk about technology like it is a magic wand. Buy new software, problem solved. Move to the cloud, everything is modern. Add AI, and suddenly the office runs like NASA. Install a new system, and years of bad habits, messy data, missing documentation, and “we’ve always done it this way” will just disappear. No. That is not how