This is actually Version 4 of my blog.
Enjoy!
There are some series of posts that go together. You can access them directly with the links below.
a.k.a Freelance Whoring A customer of where I work, who we will in the trend of this blog call “RedBack“, emailed me last night, unofficially and off the record. So its good I am protecting their identity :0) This customer has a server, but no...
Here is a Question. How much of the Internet’s Backbone is obsolete. Code that no one knows what it does or how it works? Let me give you an example: - I have recently been integrating my companies systems into several of the Major...
One of our customers recently moved half their business away from us to a BIGGER networking company for added security, better service, and to prevent having all their eggs in one basket. They had been looking into disaster recovery for a while,...
So at the weekly “Blame & Shame” meeting, it was mentioned that the SMS notifications of Server problems were possibly a bit excessive. The monitoring system sends out a notification of a problem every hour. If you happen to have your phone...
I’ve just finished re-watching the 1st season of “The I.T. Crowd“. I was reconfiguring a Laptop and needed something playing in the background. Now one of the running jokes in the show is the answer-all response to all phone requests “Have you...
Its that time of year again. Where I look back over the previous year and answer the same 40 questions.
2007 Edition
This evening I became a Companion of the Holy Royal Arch. There are three degrees in Masonry, the Entered Apprentice, the Fellowcraft, and the Master Mason including the royal arch. So while the Royal Arch is a separate order, it is highly linked...
A strange thing happened to me on the way into the office this morning…. That almost sounds like the start of a cheesy joke. But. Seriously. Driving into work this morning I got into a game of chicken with a Magpie, and almost lost. (It ended in a...
I have not posted for a while, so I Figure I’ll post some kind of update whilst waiting for a phone call/email/contact of some form. So the weekend just gone : – The GoodWell I went out sat night, had a nice meal in a place where the staff were...
I have seen this on multiple friends LiveJournal's, and other places all over the internet. It looks nice, simple and safe. So the idea is, you type “[your name] likes to” into Google and list ten things the Internet thinks you like to do. Oh but...