I have accepted a position as a Technical Consultant at Appirio. This ends a 2 month, 2 day unemployment streak that I was on, the longest I’ve been out of a job since 9th grade! I do feel blessed, there are some others I know in the same situation that have not been able to locate a new permanent position.

I’m really excited about this opportunity for my career! I have to believe that some high power had a hand in forcing me out the door from my previous position, because I’d still be there otherwise. This job has better pay, more interesting work, and with a better company (of course the last two are my opinion, any former co-workers of mine).

I’m a huge fan of Boxee, I use it for my home theater PC’s front-end. I was excited to see news from the Consumer Electronics Show about Boxee, as covered by Hak5, I show which I support.

The Boxee Box — an Apple-TV like embedded set-top-ish device. Under $200? Amazing. I am buying one asap.

The coolest thing out of the Boxee booth was the keyboard/remote combo. Assuming it’s reasonably cheap, I’m getting this for sure.

I just dropped my new Ipod into the sink, and it now appears to be broken. The unit still functions for the most part, but I can’t get any audio output to work. I’m going to leave it off for awhile and see if it resolves itself, fingers crossed. I purchased a replacement digitizer for this Ipod, and never got around to installing it. Dang!