May 20, 2013I got an email from a friend of mine who is soliciting for women who work in IT (preferably IT administration) to take part in a panel at LISA'13 called "Advancing Women in Computing". You can also watch last year's panel to get a feel for what it's like. Once again, my good friend Rikki [...]
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May 16, 2013I might not notice it at the time, but I can always tell how busy I am by how many blog posts I manage to get live. By my count, I've been doing about one every eight days so far this month (if you count this one). So I'm behind :-) So what's been going [...]
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May 9, 2013Tonight at 9pm Eastern time, there is going to be a special town-hall style Q&A meeting with the candidates who are running for the LOPSA Board of Directors. The meeting happens on IRC, but if you don't have an IRC client, LOPSA Leadership Committee member Aaron Sachs wrote instructions on how to connect with the [...]
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April 29, 2013I'm very happy to announce that I am a candidate for election to the LOPSA Board of Directors for the ensuing term. I have worked very hard for LOPSA as a volunteer, but there are certain things that you can only do from inside "the machinery", as it were, so I'm throwing my hat in [...]
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April 25, 2013I thought that you might be interested in seeing the lightning talk that I gave at Back Bay LISA the other day. I talk about the path of the profession of IT Administration in general. It's only four and a half minutes, so give it a watch: If you can't see the embedded video, you [...]
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April 24, 2013If you're interested in storage at all, you should be watching Storage Field Day, which is broadcasting live at TechFieldDay.com. As I type this, Exablox has come out of stealth mode and is now talking about their new peer-to-peer object storage with distributed object metadata. It's awesome. Here's the rest of the day's schedule (in [...]
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