Well, today (Monday) I embark on a new chapter in my life – Red Hat certification. I have never been on an I.T. course before in my life (apart from humanities computing at uni). So it’s kinda weird considering it’s my profession. So tomorrow at 10am I’ll be in a classroom in Manchester taking a crash-course in linux system administration. I’ve been booked on the course for a few weeks now, so I’ve been trying to prepare myself as best I can for it. In truth the past four years that I’ve been using Fedora Core and CentOS have carved out a sense of trouble-shooting in me which I’m very confident with.

I remember the first time I was confronted with being forced to use the command line to administer a remote server. I was shitting my pants. I’d heard all the horror stories of people doing an rm -rf * in the wrong directory and losing everything on the box. So, looking back at all that and I realise now how far I’ve come since that day. I can now quite happily setup and break a system (on purpose) and try to fix it confidently on a live system.

To tell the truth I’m nervous and excited at the same time about this course. I really have no idea what the exam on Friday will entail and probably won’t have a full appreciation of it until the day itself. Wish me luck (even though I don’t really need it! hehe)