About & Why

My name’s kethry, keth for short. I write another blog, which is about my real world life, if you want to know more about me, feel free to look there. My OH, Michiel, is a geek. People can be geeks in many ways and i freely admit i’m a cookery geek, scifi and fantasy geek, gardening geek and so on. and although i love computers, i’m not an IT geek in the same way that he is. I don’t get all happy from looking at elegant code, for example.

I do hang out in an IRC channel though, (##woodchucks, on freenode) populated by IT geeks like Michiel. and i like them (shush, don’t tell ‘em). a lot. I wonder sometimes why i’m there, why i’m accepted, because i’m really not a geek like they are, and i think sometimes its cos i’m the light relief, the comic flunky. but sometimes i wish i could understand the rants, the joys, the bits of conversation that frankly, leave me scratching my head. where someone is complaining about RPM, or some other package manager. (just as an example).

So i started to ask questions.

I’ve actually been using slackware now for about 2 years, well, i say using slackware, technically i use it but i’m scared stiff of actually doing anything in konsole. I do everything through point n click, in my favorite, much beloved, KDE. i used to be a windoz lover. not any more. I’ve actually threatened to leave Michiel if he took slackware off and replaced it with windows. but in all that time i’ve never really used the command line, not without serious handholding anyway. I look at Michiel working on the command line and working with slackbuilds with ease and … okay. it galls to admit this but.. i’m somewhat envious.

and at the same time, very apprehensive.

[I'm scared of screwing my baby up, you see.]

and one thing i do know is that the only way to actually solve that is to learn. it won’t be easy, i do know that, but i have to learn. from Michiel, from the guys in woodchucks from the ‘net. I’m good with researching – its not for nothing that i jokingly call myself wikislut – and unlike many, i actually do how to google…