about me
if you haven't already guessed by the domain name, my name is nick ragusa and i'm a 25 year old living in boston, ma. though i hate people who define themselves by their job, mine plays an extremely important part outside of work. i am a full time (linux) systems engineer at brandeis university. i put linux in parantheses as it's not officially part of my title as my job is OS independent, but i prodominately work with linux / solaris boxes. when i'm not system administrating the university, i keep myself occupied with the follwing (in no particular order with the exeption of the first)
- fiance to my gorgeous fiancee amanda (www.nicholasamanda.com)
- gym rat at BSC
- proud uncle to my beautiful nephew grant
- webmaster of some sites: www.nickragusa.com, www.wlvr.org (not active), www.babylathren.com, www.nicholasamanda.com, www.djragu.com (old site before nickragusa.com), www.lumpypear.com, www.mctallini.com (site for a friend's project)
- complete tech news junkie (digg, /., reddit, cnet, engadget, make, just to name a few)
- aspiring photographer -- and by aspiring, i mean one day i hope to purchase a decent digital camera and learn some tricks
- retired dj, though i think my next apartment will have the turntables set back up again and the compilations might start flowing
- member of a friendly start up, www.lumpypear.com, just a bunch of my nerd friends putting our heads together and creating misc projects -- hoping one will catch
- how to home network guru
... just to name a few. good friends are also a huge part of my life. some friend's sites: