November 9, 2008 – 4:31 pm
Loving me some November. Veteran’s Day is on Tuesday this year, so I’m taking off tomorrow. Bing! A four day weekend.
And, the Friday after Thanksgiving has been a traditional day off since the early 80’s, when my job involved 100% travel. The post Turkey Day holiday was then spent, ahem, Doing paperwork. [...]
October 11, 2008 – 3:59 pm
Being a geek for hire has its rewards. Sometimes. these rewards include meeting luminaries in the Open Source Community. Last week, I had the distinct pleasure of meeting two such folk.
On Tuesday, I shook the hand of Paul Frields , current chairman of the Fedora Project Board. In just the few short minutes [...]
October 11, 2008 – 1:41 pm
Via mail-o-gram from a coworker, this timeless classic, which I’d seen and forgotten. Another good use of a blog in as a repository for such things. So, here we go:
The Plan
In the beginning there was a plan. Then came the assumptions. The plan
was without substance. The assumptions were without form. Darkness was
upon the face of [...]
October 2, 2008 – 8:35 pm
My company’s promises to me after we decided to remain in Northern Virginia came true today, as I relocated to another building immediately adjacent to the fire trap facility where I’ve spent the last 5+ years.
I’m still doing pretty much the same work, which is cool. We’re not particularly title conscious where I [...]
September 9, 2008 – 6:09 pm
Will deter tbbs-land from upgrading to the latest WordPress. We now are proudly powered by WP 2.6.2 after the upgrade.
A day in class is tiring; the course material voluminous and thorough, the instructor knowledgeable and enthusiastic, the class nearly full of people from various backgrounds and interests, the eats plentiful and good.
Today covered a [...]
September 8, 2008 – 7:53 pm
My class starts tomorrow, not today. I read the confirmation e-mail multiple times, and absolutely tuned out the fact that September 9th, the first day of class, is not a Monday.
All was not in vain however; the area where the class meets has grown up a lot, especially for folks like me who [...]
September 7, 2008 – 2:14 pm
It serves to host my U3 uninstaller, which removes that “U3 Smart” crap that aggravates the heck out of me.
And, having just picked up a 16GB thumb drive from the Office Depot at roughly half-price, I really needed the 6MB that the U3 formerly occupied.
16GB?? That you can put in your pocket. I remember [...]
September 7, 2008 – 2:04 pm
Tomorrow would have my first day on my new job in West Virginia. Instead, I’ll be in a class for some VMware book learnin’, and absent from the office all week.
We have a group calendar on which we enter AWS days1, vacation, days off, who has the stinking on-call pager, and the like.
I dutifully [...]
September 4, 2008 – 7:44 pm
After a lot of gut-wrenching moments, we’ve decided to remain exactly where we are, in regards to both residence and jobs1. The angst over the life/work situation came to a close today, about 20 minutes before what was to have been my farewell lunch, which turned into a salute to our team of admins, and [...]
September 1, 2008 – 1:00 pm
In the spirit of blog-like full disclosure, the origin of the “I’d sweep floors” line is Ron Hornaday , who I heard on an ESPN interview years ago saying:
I’d sweep floors to work for Dale Earnhardt.
And one phone call from Old Ironhead set him up in the driver’s seat of a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series [...]
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