Archive for the 'travelblogging' Category

Work Travel: Phoenix

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008

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 equipment on [...]

More work travel: Minneapolis

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008

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 [...]

Work Travel: Dallas edition.

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

So, this project I’ve recently been recruited into has servers at a bunch of different sites around the country, and that means work travel, which is something pretty new to me. Last week I took 3 days with a colleague and went to Dallas to do a partial node installation in a datacenter a little [...]