Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on March 23rd, 2018 in College, Main, Writing 
Susan, her mom, and the kids are in Ireland this week for spring break, and I’m in Oklahoma. As I mentioned last week, I am wrapping up my novel for my final school project. If everything goes according to schedule, I’ll be turning my novel in during the second week of April, and defending it two weeks later (after the members of my committee have had time to read it). I started work on my novel last September, and over seven months, things have a way of changing. For example, one of my characters started the book with long blonde… (read more)
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on March 16th, 2018 in College, Main, My LifeI left work a couple hours early Thursday afternoon to visit the University of Oklahoma and submit the final paperwork required for graduation. Perhaps its from years of dealing with computers, but I prefer things to be linear and, if at all possible, chronological. Purchasing a cap and gown two months before I defend my final project almost seems presumptuous on my part. I realize graduation is a massive undertaking that involves hundreds (thousands?) of students and must take a long time to coordinate, but preparing for graduation before turning my final project in almost feels like showing up to… (read more)
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on March 14th, 2018 in Adventures, Computers/Tech/Games 
Last night I had the honor of speaking to the Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP) at the University of Central Oklahoma about my experience as a computer specialist for the Federal Aviation Administration. Approximately 100 students showed up last night to listen to me ramble about my life as a federal employee. I had originally planned to focus my presentation about experiences working with security, but a couple of weeks ago I learned that last month’s guest was a security pen tester, so I decided to expand the scope of my presentation a bit and cover my entire career… (read more)
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on March 3rd, 2018 in Main 
This afternoon I received a message from Google, informing me that some of my blog posts had been flagged for linking to known sites containing malware. Whenever Google contacts you with news of this nature, you are forced to react, quickly, before they remove you from their global directory. After scouring both my own site and the site I was linking to I could find no hints of malware or debauchery. Since the links weren’t crucial to the blog entries and so I went ahead and removed them. In the process of this, well, process, WordPress got confused and decided… (read more)
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