Another round of telephone interviews that left me with a positive feeling. If I recall correctly, there’s still another technical round to go before the company might make a decision. For the first time in a while I’m “letting myself” enjoy that sensation of hope – the feeling that maybe things are going right. At the same time, I’m reminding myself not to rest with the early results, to keep hunting until everything is resolved.

Early “lessons learned (or reiterated)?” I’ll likely interview well if I can manage to “convert” my resume into an interview. Interviews suggested that readers might pre-judge me as overqualified for any task with smaller scope than my experience. Having built and maintained a network of well-positioned friends would certainly have helped, but it’s also important to not dwell on that failing. It’s a definite asset to have enough life experience to really know who you are – allowing you to be yourself without reservation and to answer plainly, trusting that if that shows you are not a fit, then that is for the better.

In other news, I spent another day working to get two inspIRCd servers to stay in sync with one another. My last real conflict? Assuming that two anope servers would stay in sync with one another on that network. In retrospect, I really didn’t see anything suggesting there should be an anope server on each IRC node – just an assumption – and in the end I still don’t know if they can be made to sync for failover or redundancy. For now, it’s enough just to turn off one set of services – now one anope server is managing both inspIRCd servers. I’m confident that if I switched to using a database backend instead of flat files for the anope service, I could work out reduncancy. For now, though, just having the inside and outside IRC services in sync is satisfying. Besides, there’s still plenty to figure out about all of the services and management – as well as going over my configuration again to see what’s what. When I feel it’s “secure enough,” I’ll probably open it up and make it publicly available – TBD.