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 guys from Gesher Academy ROCK! I still think those things are true. We need to be willing to understand, and simply prioritize…
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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 chance of locating, as long as we’re persistent and intelligent about it. But one of the searches that many (if not all) IT…
#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 have data without information, but you cannot have information without data,” may never have been so blindingly obvious or true as it is…
#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 people ill-prepared to carve out the time necessary to read it.) Preparation implies forethought, knowledge, information, capability, and (as I mentioned last year)…
#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 Coming up soon (the evening of Oct 2nd, to be exact) is Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year. As I mentioned last year…
#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 you have needed to find out the RETURN code from one of your systems at some time in the past. For that reason,…
#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 you, your clone, and your clone’s cousin. Same goes for your coworkers (and their clones and cousins). You know things. Maybe a lot…
#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 (both in terms of the company where you work, the company you keep, and the work you do) that you love. I realize…
#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 of an IT Professional. “(In IT) we’re always fixing things. […] but fixing just eventually wears us down. So stop fixing things, and…
#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 never requested the SAN storage… If we intended to patch the application, but never cleared time for the change control If we intended…