Last year I discussed how some areas of technology were in (and others were out) of the range of our understanding – depending on what area of focus we have ourselves. And the…
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Day 3 – Search
As IT pro’s, we find ourselves searching for many things. We search for solutions. We search for truth (both regular and capital-T truth). Most of those things we either have a good…
#BlogElul 02-Act
An excerpt from an essay I wrote for an upcoming issue of “Data Center Journal” was especially relevant to today’s post. The essay is titled “Data, Information, Action”: The saying, “you can…
#BlogElul 01-Prepare
(This post is a day late. I guess you could say I wasn’t prepared to post it during the long holiday weekend. ON the other hand, posting it then would have caught…
#BlogElul: ZeroDay
tl;dr version A daily blog-athon running from now until Oct 3rd, with hundreds of people writing a daily post on a specific theme. You are invited to participate. I am. Source Code…
#BlogElul Day 29: Return
RETURN is one of the most basic of all constructs in IT. Whether you are a programmer, sysadmin, network engineer, Virtualization architect, or something else, there is an almost 100% likelihood that…
#BlogElul Day 28: Give
If you work in IT, there are a few things which I know are true about your job even if I’ve never met you: You are busy. You have enough work for…
#BlogElul Day 27: Bless
As I’ve been writing each day this month, I’ve come back repeatedly to the idea that – if you choose a career in IT – it is important to find a niche…
#BlogElul Day 26: Create
A couple of months ago, SolarWinds held their 4th ThwackCamp – a completely free, completely online conference. In the keynote, Head Geek Patrick Hubbard spoke to an interesting dichotomy in the life…
#BlogElul Day 25: Intend
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…