Entries Categorized as 'Administrivia'

Blog Upgraded and Fixed

Date March 14, 2010

Hi All,
I spent some time last night upgrading the blog to the latest versions of Wordpress and plugins. I also added a mobile version of the site, so handheld device users can actuallly use the site now without zooming in.
Also, with the help of Greg over at Reject Reality, I got WP SuperCache [...]

Update with the hiring and an upcoming blog update

Date July 2, 2009

A while back, I talked about hiring another administrator. That process is currently happening and progressing nicely.
If anyone reading the blog applied, thank you. If you didn’t receive a call, it is probably because you were far more overqualified than we were looking for. It’s a sign of the bad economy that we’re having [...]

Congrats to the winners!

Date April 6, 2009

On Friday, I used random.org to select 12 rubber ducky winners, to whom I’ve sent emails congratulating them. I’ve received 9 replies so far, and the first floatilla of ducks will be going out in the mail today.
I want to thank all of you who took the survey and who offered advice. I’ve implemented [...]

Fine, fine, I’ll do it. I’ll microblog too

Date February 17, 2009

but I won’t like it.
Actually, I think I’ve finally settled on using twitter to publish all of those weird little links and things that don’t really merit an entire blog entry.
Because I don’t want to untie those useful little tidbits from the blog itself, I’ve added an RSS reader to the lower right [...]

RSS aggregation of blog entries and the like

Date December 1, 2008

The other day, I read a post on MySysAd blog about people copying blog entries verbatim and passing them off as their own. esofthub added a postfix to his RSS feed to automatically credit the source of the material, which I think is a great solution.
I wasn’t too worried about it until I google’d [...]

When is a sysadmin not a sysadmin?

Date August 28, 2008

I really like my job. I love connecting complex bits of hardware into a working infrastructure. Taking inanimate bits and making a living, breathing network out of them is exciting. It’s the best model train set you could ask for.
There are also parts of my job that I intensely dislike. I’m not talking about [...]

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