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There is a popular saying about the road to hell. It may equally apply to the road that leads to a system outage. If we intended to back up our servers, but…

“Star Wars: A New Hope” (which at the time was simply called “Star Wars”) came out when I was 10 years, 1 month, and 21 days old. Like many 10-year-old boys at…

In my essay “I Wish Someone Had Told Me” I talk about getting started in IT, and how at the beginning, you are just all over the place. You are pulled into…

If you have ever written even a single line of code, you have also probably done “it” – the program without end. The infinite loop. Hopefully it was just to print out…

In IT, there are jobs, there are careers, and there are passions. Back in 2006 there was a guy in my monitoring team, a 7 year veteran of IT who had made…

I’ve never been at a company that openly said “We’re risk averse here. We would prefer you don’t try anything new. No innovation unless you absolutely can’t avoid it.” No, most of…

“Don’t judge me” is a pretty common theme these days, a catch-all phrase meant to say “I know many won’t approve, but I gotta be me!” While often found on social media,…

In the world of IT, asking for things is an activity that is somewhat fraught. First, there is the risk of rejection (which I wrote about on my other blog, today )….

After two and a half decades working in IT, I can tell you there is a definite cultural bias against sleep. Whether we’re talking about physical sleep or metaphorical sleep, being in…

They say there are no atheists in foxholes. I’d argue there aren’t any atheists in the datacenter during a weekend 24-hour upgrade either. Prayer is a powerful force – both for individuals…