complich8’s journal

Everyone else is doing 2008 retrospectives, so I might as well too, right?
The most salient thing about last year is that it to me marked a sort of real liberation. In 2007, I graduated, moved to the DC area and started a “real job” with CACI in downtown arlington, but I wasn’t really making [...]

We went to Phoenix this week, doing yet another node install.
Everyplace we go is different. Some places put all their stuff in datacenters and remote into it. Others put all their stuff in datacenters and have people come in to work directly on it. Still others stack 17U of server and storage [...]

Ok, so here’s the story.
At work, we’ve got exchange calendars. They do everything from meeting and room scheduling to events and outings and all that stuff, with meeting invites carrying along the necessary info to make stuff work in general. It’s pretty slick, but it only works with outlook and outlook web access. [...]

I have them. Bongos, that is.
That is all.

Spent the latter half of last week in the Minneapolis area, to do another node installation. The install went as well as could be expected, and we got in and out in about 5 hours, meaning we had a pretty good amount of free time before and after.
The flight both ways was on an [...]