It's been over a month now that my server's logs have entries such as Jul 23 17:57:26 extra imapd[826]: login: francis.test.denison.edu[140.141.15.171] francis plaintext+TLS. It's been over a month that when I hit google in Firefox, I'm not redirected to google.ca. Over a month that I show my passport when I buy alcohol. I'm actually celebrating my longest stay out of my country. And that is, for business. Scary to realize I should have done this way before. But, it's never too late, isn't?

Luck is on my side, I must confess. The ingredients to a success story were all there; a nice apartment, an amazing area, a challenging job, a good laptop, and wonderful coworkers at the university. The work is getting done at a fast pace and other contracts are coming up.

But .. I ear whispers from the audience: What the hell are you doing? Oh! Heu .. yeah .. good point.

As a contractor for a consulting company located downtown Montreal, I came to Granville, Ohio, with a good friend to install a new email system for Denison University. Decided to go open source, the University's staff from the computing services department are enchanted by the Cyrus/Postfix/SpamAssassin we're are deploying. And so I am.

Mentallity changing towards open source even gave me time to release a new version of Spamity. I spent time making major improvements to Spamity based on their requests and during work hours. What more can I ask?