now it's all gonna be my fault

exciting time ahead for me. my boss has begun my slow but deliberate move from software development (php/mysql) to systems and network administration. in laymen's terms this means i'm going to write less and less website stuff and do more and more maintenance and management of the servers and the network itself.

today is a big day though. last night, a few of us got together and took the whole office off the old network and put it on my new one, behind my gateway running the firewall rules i setup over time (see my software page soon for a copy of the script). what's more, i'm managing the dns as well so now if anything (other than email) breaks or just doesn't work right, i get to fix it. the responsibility is cool, but i'm not sure that i like the new level of stress accompanied with it.