My first full week back at work in the crypt of faded dreams begins tomorrow. And, as fate would have it, it’s my week with the stinking on-call pager.
I’m richly blessed.
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After a long layoff from the unfriendly skies, I’m airborne again later this month. Destination: Boston.
This time for a geek extravaganza.
First and foremost, the Fourth Annual Red Hat Summit will be taking place. There is so much on the agenda for this that I’m having a hard time choosing which sessions [...]
One more time before my emeritus years, I’d dearly love to work with a small group (3-5) of sysadmins who work hard, play hard, and just get stuff done by helping each other out.
This is contrasted to bloated staffs, each member of which gets tasks assigned from a sort of job jar, without [...]
We left LA last Wednesday morning; I think I mentioned previously that the TSA managed to push my buttons on our departure from El Lay.
This time, lines were short, there was signage advising us that our shoes, even plastic Crocs, must make the journey through the X-ray machine. We were greeted [...]
After our safe arrival back home last Wednesday, my little bride and I went to the State Farm office to pick up the check for her totalled ‘98 Saturn hulk the next day. State Farm did an excellent job in promptly and fairly processing our claim. After that, it was out to [...]
Ever since WordPress introduced native support for tags, I’ve struggled with getting a decent tagging system in place here at tbbs.
The struggle has been compounded by a well-intentioned, though not well-executed effort to convert my existing categories to tags. Some categories, most significantly my punchlines and RIP categories, translated nicely to tags. Others; e.g., the [...]
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