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Somehow, two and a half years have passed since I accepted my current position and I hadn’t kept my resume up to date. I fixed that today. I had actually kept a company-internal resume somewhat up to date but my public resume has just sat here missing all the stuff I’ve done. There was actually […]

So last week we finally purchased ourselves a new laptop, an Acer Extensa 4420. We’d been putting it off for a while limping along with an old Dell Inspiron 8100 with a failing hard drive. That laptop had been pushing 5 years old. It was actually in our old house after Katrina and managed to […]

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. But […]

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 another document later, […]

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 worked great. Until […]

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 on the […]

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