A year or so ago, my roommates and I noticed, as we were fighting a mouse problem, that one possible access mode to the house was a dogwood that was pretty close to an attic vent. We’ve got wall voids that go pretty much all the way up to the attic, so it seemed like [...]
So last week and this week I’ve got back-to-back travel schedules. The Louisville trip was to move the hardware out of the original rack that was too shallow (so the back door wouldn’t close, which the management at the site didn’t like) into a new one. Drama ensued, because the new rack was round-hole and [...]
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 [...]
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 downtown. That [...]
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 and [...]
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