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This guy lives in my neighborhood.  Five inches of snow today and he’s out running barefoot.
Barefoot Rick

Disclaimer:  I’m not a gadget freak.  I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.  iPhones, Storms, Bolds, toaster ovens, etc…don’t want them.  I do have an iPod…a G2 Nano circa 2006.
With that out of the way I can broach a recent post by Hoff and the associated banter in the comments regarding Amazon’s Kindle […]

How often is this preached?  Quite frequently.  I just spent the better part of the last hour practicing what is often preached.  Somewhere in the last day or two I lost all of the comments dating back to the end of October.  Hell if I know what happened but I went back and re-inserted about […]

This is what it’s come to…giving up Facebook for Lent (via CNET).  I can’t even begin to explain how ridiculous I think this is.  Adults are neglecting their families because of Facebook?  This has got to be some sort of joke.  I’m sure somewhere in the archives I’ve let my opinion on social networking known […]

Somewhere around the first of the year something changed in me.  I may have actually crossed the threshold from beer guzzling frat boy into a mature consumer of spirits.  I used to drink Miller Lite like I was shipping out the next day and might not get the chance to enjoy it again for six […]

American Pie is on and I figured that would be a title that would grab your attention.
What’s new in Bumpland?  We have actually been poking around our Nevis Networks equipment the last couple of days.  We have some nerds from the civilian world in house to do some sort of assessment and they need internet access.  As I’ve […]

Now that VD is behind us you can practically smell spring.  Spring means one thing in my world.  BBQ.  Actually, that’s a lie.  Spring means a lot of things in my world and BBQ happens to be one of them.  To officially kick off the 2009 BBQ season I ordered a new smoker tonight…the 22.5″ […]

If you at all follow this waste of space you might recall previous mentionings of how I just can’t embrace the “nerdery” like some people do.  I was offended (albeit very, very slightly) when someone at a bar once guessed that I worked in IT.  I don’t get all flush over the latest gadgets like iPhones […]

Whoa!  Stop the presses.  I actually have a little NAC talk tonight.  The other day we were talking about something and I logged into one of our LANsight appliances for the first time in a long time.  All of our Nevis gear has just been running, doing what it does.  As I logged on I […]

Sometimes finding something to write about is difficult.  Other times ideas just fall into your lap.
If you use virtualization, do yourself a tremendous favor and run memtest86 or memtest86+ on your server before it goes into production.  We’ve been fighting an ESX server Purple Screen of Death problem for three or four weeks to long […]