As you may have surmised (or can see on my bio), I’ve been doing this a pretty long time by now. Coming up on 30 years, actually (i.e. being a technology professional, although I was an amateur tinkerer before that). One thing that’s interesting when your career is long enough, is to be able to […]
I had a thought the other day when I was staring out the window, pondering. I was thinking about the shift of a technology from a developing phase to a ubiquitous phase. At what point does a technology or service just become a basic utility? This is showing my age a bit, but I remember […]
New technologies come and go all the time, and new fads come and go all the time. But some of them, when they are true game changers, do stick. Take virtualization, for example. Boy has it stuck! One hotly-debated trend right now is, of course, the Cloud. What is the Cloud, really? Many people like […]
I offended someone one time by referring to systems administrators as plumbers. I certainly meant no offense…after all, can you imagine life without plumbers? Furthermore I was considering myself in that category, as after all I am a systems administrator as well. Anyways, even though it was a couple of years ago, sorry. I still […]
All last week I was out of the office on a business trip. Now usually when I travel like this, I basically write off the week as not really getting anything done. Instead I focus on what I’m traveling for, then just plan on catching up when I return to my desk. But this week […]
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