As I write this, I’m en route to Dell World 2012 in Austin, Texas. Right this moment, I’m ensconced in Air New Zealand’s international lounge, which is quite nice. Much nicer than United’s sorry excuse for a lounge in Melbourne. United would be better off partnering with another Star Alliance… Read More
In a somewhat surprising turn of events, I’ll be going to Dell World 2012 in December, as a guest of Dell. I’ll be there as part of the media pool from Australia as the only blogger. It looks like social networking is one of the main themes of the event,… Read More
I have an evolving list of “first hires” when someone finally comes to their senses and gives me a senior IT manager job. Some entries are mostly due to some extremely intelligent and trustworthy colleagues whom I am sure could be encouraged to accompany me if the price is right.… Read More
The local financial pages have been awash with news of the Australian car industry needed a serious financial injection for several of the manufacturers to stay here. This means jobs are threatened, which means votes are threatened. This little play sparks up every year or so: Mitsubishi has been threatened… Read More
“The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.” Read More
As promised, this is my article providing advice to vendors, and bloggers, who sign up to be part of a blogger field day, aka BlogFest. SNIA have held two of these events, and as an attendee at both, I have some tips based on what worked well, and not so… Read More
This is part of a series on the SNIA Blogfest 2010. IBM were the second vendor of the day. We travelled to their Pyrmont Street office, which is a bit of a fishbowl for the poor folks who work there. There’s a transparent glass partition separating the front entrance from… Read More
My first real job was manually sorting printed superannuation statements. I had to go through about a dozen boxes, each with about 2000 pieces of paper, and separate them into piles: single-page statements, and multi-page statements. Why? Because the program that printed the statements just printed them all at once,… Read More
I love Python. I find it really easy to use to write programs with. I’m also pretty into NetApp Filers lately. I spend a bunch of time helping enterprise customers with using them well. So, of course, I want to be able to administer them using Python. Second Class Citizens… Read More
I’ve upgraded the firmware on the Netgear ADSL modem, so hopefully that will fix the “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up” problem it seems to have sporadically. If so, eigenmagic.com will stop randomly dropping off the air. Here’s hoping, anyway. In other news, I’ve been doing some research of… Read More
