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 11, 2013Last night, we had a really good BBLISA meeting. It was the Lightning Talks meeting that I was looking for volunteers with. I had a great time, and I think everyone else did, too. All in all, there were around 15 people at the meeting, and nine lightning talks, covering a wide range of topics. [...]
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February 25, 2013If you watched the SuperBowl (or, more likely, watched the commercials the next day on the net), you probably saw the Dodge commercial, Farmer, the audio of which was taken from a speech made by Paul Harvey, So God Made a Farmer. I actually really liked the commercial, and it really struck a chord with [...]
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February 20, 2013I meant to write this entry the other day, but got busy. I posted a question about labeling to the excellent LOPSA Tech mailing list, and Tom Limoncelli used it as the prompt for a blog post on the subject of labeling datacenter cables. Head over and check it out.
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January 24, 2013I wanted to let you know about Enterprise Networking's Top Networking Experts You Need To Follow - they included 9 really amazing networking bloggers...and me! I don't really understand how that works, but I'm deeply honored and confused that they thought to include me in the list. A lot of Tech Field Day alumni are [...]
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December 3, 2012I'm lucky enough to have been asked back as a blogger for LISA'12 in San Diego (have you registered yet? You should!), and I've been able to interview some great folks about their new training classes. Last week, I spoke to William Lefabvre about his Amazon Web Services class, and if your company has been [...]
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