Tag Archive: Work

Passionless in IT

Can "IT crawl out from under the ambition-crushing, innovation-sucking, soul-destroying minutiae of just keeping the digital lights on." An interesting line from a recent article in Computerworld.  Seems the passion within IT of truly engaged professionals has fallen from a high in 2007 of ...

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Interacting with IT

Jennifer sent me this list a few weeks ago; it's one of those internet lists that get circulated via email.  I haven't personally experienced all of these, but over the last 15 years, I've experienced my share of them... they're a lot funnier reading than experiencing for sure. Years ago an office manager who got sick ...

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Not enough to do?

The company I work for recently made a major announcement about changes within the Senior Executive circles.  And it did so in a not so traditional fashion, making the announcement on the company blog by the outgoing CEO himself.  No filters, no committees, no PR team, none of that. I had planned to update the blogging ...

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Back from VMworld 2008

Spent last week in Las Vegas at VMworld along with 14,000+ other IT professionals.  Pretty amazing what 14,000 nerds can do to cell networks, wireless and internet access --you can pretty much forget about it.  It was my first VMworld and my first conference in ...

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A wonderful evening at Chase Field

I spent a few days in Phoenix last week on business, part of which was a meeting with the Diamondbacks and attending an evening ball game. I can think of no better way to spend an evening --Chase Field was awesome. ...

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Save Windows XP!

Yep! That about sums it up... Infoworld is throwing its weight behind an effort to stop Microsoft from abandoning Windows XP for that piece of crap they're trying to ram down our throats; Vista. I guess that ...

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Purdue University

I spent a good part of this past fall traveling all over the midwest for work, (one of the many reasons I've been missing in action lately). Anyway, I was able to visit several universities, talk with lots of great people and ...

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The ole blog’s been suffering lately

Hope you'll all forgive me -- the blog's been suffering lately. Life's been pretty crazy the last few months and I've been away traveling for work. Much of Septemebr has been spent away from home, then toss in fall baseball and the ole plate is pretty full. Hopefully things will slow ...

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Be Bold and Courageous

First off let me say that this posting is for me and my own personal development.  If you’re not interested in, concerned with, or just wondering what the heck;  keep in mind the URL you typed in the browser that got you here is my name, not yours.  You’re free to leave just as quickly ...

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You can’t install ScriptLogic on Thursdays

Spending almost my entire life working with technology - the last 10 years in Information Technology, I thought I've pretty much seen and heard it all. Obviously not yet. Today while Joel (one of our network guys) was working on a new Vista box we have, he ran into a little ...

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