(This originally appeared on THWACK.com) I was a sucker for Windows CE (or WinCE, as we mobile enthusiasts called it). I spent hours with my WinCE devices. I owned 3 of them…
ICYMI: Knowing vs Understanding
(This originally appeared on THWACK.com) In IT, we search the Web constantly. Everything we need is literally at our fingertips, just an Internet query away. This is interesting because IT professionals tend…
Fat Tuesday: The Bermuda Triangle of Eating
For the last decade, I have had jobs which took me out of town at least once a month, and sometimes as often as 3 trips before I flipped to a new…
ICYMI: Un-Acceptable
(This originally appeared on TechTarget.com) Larry Wall (creator of the Perl programming language) famously said, “Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness,…
ICYMI: What “Old” Network Engineers Need to Remember
(This article originally appeared on THWACK.com) Not long ago, I read “Five Things Old Programmers Should Remember” by Gary Wisniewski. In it, Gary recounts watching Star Trek one evening and how something…
Fat Tuesday: The Same 5 Pounds
It was like groundhog day, but instead of Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell, the stars of the movie were the (significantly less attractive or entertaining) scale in my bathroom and my belly….
ICYMI: What Old IT Pros Need To Remember
(This originally appeared on NetworkComputing.com) Recently, I read Gary Wisniewski’s essay on things old programmers need to remember. I loved his perspective, and as I head into my third decade in IT, the reminder…
ICYMI: The Five Stages of (Monitoring) Grief
(This article originally appeared on NetworkComputing.com) If you’ve worked in IT for more than 10 minutes, you know that stuff goes wrong. In fact, it should be obvious that we have jobs…
Fat Tuesday: Legacy of a Mis-Spent Youth
As I’m only a week into this new health style choice (my coach Jeff still won’t let me call it a diet) there’s not a lot of change to report. But any…
ICYMI: What Defines You?
(This originally appeared on THWACK.com) A few months back, SearchNetworking editor, Chuck Moozakis interviewed me for an article discussing the future of network engineers in the IT landscape: “Will IT Generalists Replace Network…