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They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security.Henry David Thoreau
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Tag Archives: work
I Have Nothing to Say, Therefore I Upgrade
Happy New Year, y’all. Today was my first day back at $DAYJOB, and I’d frankly be hard pressed to say that we haven’t been stuck with a used year. This could be the year that I define a new $DAYJOB … Continue reading
Dude, Who has the Pager?
It’s my week in the barrel with the stinking on-call pager yet again. I detest the stinking on-call pager; the events to which I respond are either: Trivial – stuff that shouldn’t happen – full filesystems come to mind. Properly … Continue reading
Wiki-Top
As documented here, $DAYJOB is detracting from my blogging a bit. I pour most of my vim and vigor into the now required Daily Status Report. I arbitrarily added a couple of sections to my DSR; Observations, Mood, and Thought … Continue reading
SysAdmin Day, 2009
It’s the 10th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day. My company is taking us to lunch tomorrow at Famous Dave’s, who is celebrating their 15th year of Smokin’ Hot Ribs & Ice Cold Beer. My company is nice like that. Unfortunately, … Continue reading
Runaway Mule
One of my co-workers1 is evidently on his annual two-week sabbatical to North Carolina’s Outer Banks. I say this, based on a careful analysis of my server access logs and my Sitemeter reports2, which reveal a sharp downturn in accesses … Continue reading
Point and Drool
I’ve just spent a little time in the Fedora IRC channel. Someone there was asking about tools for managing large numbers of systems; some type of dead simple system, which would require minimal configuration and maintenance, and would also naturally … Continue reading
When you have nothing to say, you upgrade
My blogging output is sagging a bit, partially because of the required filing of a daily status report at $DAYJOB. The requirements were to submit it via either: Microsoft Word1 email2 Instead, I submit mine via TicklerWiki, outfitted with a … Continue reading
Feeling Lighter
No matter how big of a goat screw it is at work, and it’s approaching the three ring variety, there’s one thing they can’t take away. Today, I passed the stinking on-call pager off to the next poor sap. I’m … Continue reading
A Great Accident that Never Happened
I just got back from the nearby Safeway. They have a branch bank on-premise; I went to get some cash from the ATM, and to deposit a paper check. Their cashier windows are open on Sunday afternoon, a convenience of … Continue reading
Union Shops
As I near the end of a fairly quiet week with the stinking on-call pager, I just got paged on an incident that’s not my problem. Our NOC is there 24×7, staring into an array of consoles, dutifully ready to … Continue reading
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