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Happy New Year to everyone.  I haven’t posted in a while due to the holidays and just being lazy.  Hope the holidays treated everyone well.
As the new year begins I feel an unexplained desire to do things better.  As Emeril would say…kick it up a notch!  2008 is going to present some big projects right […]

Hello.  My name is Mr. Bump and I’m addicted to email.
I have a problem.  I didn’t have a problem until about noon today.  I need to attend Email Addicts Anonymous (EAA).  Again, this wasn’t a problem until today.  I receive plenty of email throughout the day to keep my buzz going.  During non-business hours I’d […]

I’ve got nothing tonight.  So I’ll fill this space with nonsense.  The Dilbert cartoons below remind me of a couple of recent situations.  The first one was when Mr. Bump’s sidekick questioned the need of a second processor in a server.  Speaking of El Sidekick, he’s “man-ing up” and doing the Blazin Challenge tomorrow.  Hope […]

A couple of weeks ago I made a challenge to the techs at work that if any of them got their Vista MCP before I did I would buy them lunch.  Nothing like a $10 lunch to motivate a person.  It will be interesting to see if I end up paying.  I told them I’d start preparing […]

This whole post is a nonsensical offering…abort now if you’re not down with that.
Today was my wife’s Christmas party.  The “party” was the Chiefs/Titans game  We all meet up for brunch, went to the game, blah, blah, blah.  Those that “know” me know that I have to make a story or its just not worth the event.  After […]

Over at Rational Survivability is a comedic tale (okay, its not that comedic!) about a “friendly” network hack.  If you read it you’ll realize the root of the shananigans are “predictions.”  I think I agree with Rich Mogull…predictions are for the birds.  I’ve read a handful of predictions for 2008 and haven’t given any of them […]

A little nugget about our decision to go with the LANenforcer 2024 was published yesterday over at Dark Reading.  Who would have thought?
A couple of other interesting things I stumbled on tonight…
40% of IT directors think their network is insecure?  I thought that was a little crazy until I read the last paragraph and saw […]

Late last night I got an email that VMware released ESX Server 3.5 and Virtual Center 2.5 for general availability.  This is worth noting because we had just started upgrading our ESX servers last week to version 3.0.2.  By the time this is over we’ll be able to build ESX servers in our sleep.  Well, […]

Sorry for the lack of updates that last few days.  End of year always gets crazy with work and the extra effort it takes to get through the holidays.
The article in Network World I did the phone interview for came out late last week.  They did a fairly good job of making me sound like a person […]

No, I’m not referring to bumpinthewire.com in my title!  Although I’m sure someone out there would hope this would fail.  Maybe not though…I digress.  Over on the Microsoft subnet at Network World somebody seems to think that Windows Server 2008 is destined to fail.  Nonsense.  There is no way Server 2008 will fail.  Its Bill’s […]