Nix Bits

Oyster does an excellent job dissecting the now oft-repeated talking point that there were no major oil spills after Katrina and Rita. The Wall Street Journal made this claim in a recent editorial in support of expanding oil drilling to the Eastern Gulf of Mexico as well as to the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts. […]

So I’ve been watching the state legislature with amusement. First they decide in the Senate to triple their own pay. Following the inevitable public outcry, they cut the raise down to just twice as much as they make today. Now, several legislators have voted to waive the pay raise. They can sign […]

Oh Man, These past two weeks since getting back from Vegas have been brtual. I’ve had patches blow up in my face (partly because Solaris patching is still so 1995). I had a storage crunch on my NetWorker index store force me to borrow some space and mount it over NFS. Which […]

Karl Rove, Hurricane Katrina, George W. Bush : Go ahead. Read this.

So I’ve been travelling two out of the last three weeks. I spent last week in Vegas for EMCWorld. Which I’ll detail later. I’ve had no time to really keep up with blogs or anything like that and finally skimmed my way through the morass today. During that time, Greg Peters has delivered […]

Albuquerque is dry. The weather has been nice, but I guess I’m a sucker for that old humidity. I miss my wife. I miss my dogs. I miss my house.
I don’t mind the occassional work travel, but this trip just wasn’t as productive as I’d have liked.

Snarky. yes.
It’s still okay to laugh. This picture from Jazz Fest this past weekend was taken by a friend of a friend and forwarded to me

“That is why we need to go back is to have a conversation about what to do -rebuild it, tear it down, you know, whatever it is,” McCain Said
What a MORON. Hey Johnnie, how about you do some research and get back to us. You can start with today’s latimes editorial by John […]

Monday I decided I knew better than to try and head to the office. On Saturday we got notices informing us that a movie stunt scene was going to be filmed on our block and the neighborhood was going to be heavily restrict all day long both driving and parking. And I noticed […]

So at work I’ve been talking to $unnamed_vendor about their product that we’ve been purchasing in relatively small numbers up to this point. I work for a company with a couple of large scale data centers, one here in the area and the other in Little Rock as well as some smaller sites. From […]