Tag: work
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On working 6-3
On Monday I started working an adjusted schedule. Instead of showing up at 8 and working until 5 like most salaried people in a professional services industry, I began working 6-3. Apparently my history/habit of showing up some time between 7 and 7:30 made me a candidate for the early shift. Four days in, I’m…
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Trapped in the elevator
Yesterday I got trapped in an elevator at work for 30ish minutes. I’ve been stuck in elevators before, and if it weren’t for the fact that I had a pretty good feeling that I was going to get stuck, I would have lost faith in my theory that, much like being struck by lightning, you…
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MCITP: Enterprise Admin
The one lousy thing about a job in the IT field is that things are always changing. Microsoft (when they have it together) puts out a new client and server OS every 3 years or so, and that means that IT folks have to stay current. Instead of going back to school, they get re-certified.…
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Snowpocalypse 2011
In the middle of last week, Mother Nature apparently decided to have a bet with Michael Bay over who could make the biggest natural disaster ever. The local weather stations were in a tizzy (yes, I said tizzy) for days leading up to the storm, and my mom put on her serious voice when she…
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Update: EqualLogic Madness
I had written a couple of weeks ago about some EqualLogic madness I was experiencing with a PS4000 array that we had installed for a customer earlier this year. Because they needed additional performance and capacity, the customer got an additional array, and once we had that in the group we were able to evacuate…
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EqualLogic Madness
Over the last year or so, we’ve had the chance to play with Dell’s EqualLogic line of SAN arrays. We’ve sold a few to some customers, and as far as I’m concerned, the way those things operate are 10% logic and 90% magic. A couple of the guys from the office have gotten some formal…
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My first day as the guy formerly known as “Intern”…
…in a word, rocked. In more that one word, it rocked the free world and parts of Communist China. I have said it before, and I will probably say it again a few more times in the coming years, but I love my job. Quite simply, I absolutely adore the thing. In between watching progress…
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And so it ends, not with a bang…
…and not really with a whimper, either. The ending just kind of came and went. Like most major things these days, it seems. Graduation from Western was a lot like graduation from high school; you did a lot of sitting, you did a fair amount of getting up to applaud, and some guy in a…
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I had almost forgotten…
…that I actually still have this thing. The fact that I go a month without posting to a blog that had 3 posts to begin with is probably not a good reflection of my ability to commit to something, but when you think about what I’ve been up to in the last month with finishing…
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Perhaps I work too much…
…or just dedicate too much time to not working. Probably depends on your point of view. I was going to post something that gave the world a slightly better notion of who I am, but it occurs to me that most everybody who reads this thing already knows me, which means I can probably wait…