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Monthly Archives: February 2009

Dear recruiters: reading comprehension counts.

24-Feb-09

As my resume does exist in several places online, I am frequently contacted by recruiters. I’m generally unsurprised when they ignore my preference (noted rather explicitly on, for example, LinkedIn) that they contact me via email rather than the telephone, nor when they call both my home (which, until recently forwarded to…) and my mobile [...]

Here’s how NOT to perform PDU maintenance on the production DC floor:

18-Feb-09

Schedule maintenance on a PDU in the middle of a day, on a week dayWednesday.

When questioned over this obvious risk in the change management meeting by the Director over Windows systems, assure everyone that nothing could go wrong because the circuit is redundant.

Permit your electrical contractor to blow a fuse when performing [...]

Ah, lazyweb. Guess what: I haven’t missed you one damn bit!

12-Feb-09

Riding on this, perhaps now evident, wild hair I’ve gotten to go back to writing things online, I decided that I would go ahead and install locally an online photo album. (I’m uninterested in using sites like Flickr or SmugMug because it means giving my content to someone else, at least for them to take [...]

Taking “web log” too literally.

09-Feb-09

I didn’t really make much noise when I sucked this content out from Livejournal and put it up here (although maybe I’ll go over there and note that this exists, now that I’m comfortable with its stability), but now I’ve also finally gotten around to something I’ve meant to do for some time: /var/log/gr, wherein [...]