Archive for the 'life and times' Category

complich8’s 2009 in review

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

So, like a lemming capitulating to the pressure of peers and an ancestral drive to leap off of a cliff, I’m going to once more join the crowd of people who’re doing year in review/decade in review posts, partly because having at least one post in every month gives me some sort of psychic justification [...]

Even more travelblogging: Houston again

Friday, November 13th, 2009

Yep, so right after my last post, I got a couple hours of sleep and headed off to Houston, for the second time. Our first trip out there, we went to an airline that lives basically on the airport campus. This time, we went to a larger carrier that has its own facilities [...]

Travelblogging: Atlanta

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

So I went to Atlanta last week for yet another node install.
On the work part of the trip, the install was a mess. We ended up in a datacenter that made our sloppy cable-buildup over the last decade or so in the server room at work look absolutely solid pro. Had space issues [...]

29. It’s a prime. Doin’ fine.

Friday, October 9th, 2009

Yep, I’m now a prime age again. It’s been a long couple years since my last prime …. like 6 of them. Next one’s only two years away…
But the primality of my age aside, it seems like this would be a good time to post a life-and-times update, dontcha think? Well, plus [...]

Travelblogging: Denver Colorado.

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

So, another work trip recently came and went. This one was out to Denver, Colorado. Another node install, for which we were in and out of the facility in a grand total of right around 3 hours. Neat facility, but it was a cage colo, so I shouldn’t really elaborate on it [...]