Silence Is Golden

I've lost my voice. It's gone. bubye. As a fervent talker this is worse than torture, as best I can tell, no one else I know seems to mind! On Saturday morning I awoke with a sore throat and a very very bad feeling. I could barely talk. It came out is a screeching whine that was quite less than pleasant. My wife beam. "Sweetie. You should rest your voice.""oKA-Y!""Seriously. No more talking." I

The Software Installation Game

Why is it that installing software on a server is always the same game? For me it doesn't matter if it's Windows or Linux either. It never goes quite like it should. I suppose that's half the fun...Download said software or insert mediaWindows: Double-click annoying splash screen with install button that just took 2 minutes to loadLinux: tar -xfvz to a temp directory and watch the pretty

20 Things I Learned From The Sales Meeting

I doesn't have to work, as long as it's prettyWelcome to the meeting. Let the lies begin.PowerPoint is proof of functionality#15 in sales handbook: "If you're not positive, 'Yes it does that!'"No sales meeting is complete without a Paradigm Shift. Sales Engineers. The ugly truthful side of the sales teams. "My SE is sick...don't mind him."Free pens and coffee cups. The real reason we go to sales

Regarding Facebook

I Facebook, like others, but it still lets me down. It just feels so...less. Do you know what I mean? I love blogging. It's fun to share, and there is something so personal about an individual sharing their brain with you. Most of the stuff shared here is rather trite, but I assure you it is who I am.Early into the start if my blog, back in 2006, I decided that all my post should be between 400

Bumper Sticker Car

I've succumbed. I've caved. I'm now that guy. The bumpersticker guy. I've seen lots of bumperstickers in my life. Some are funny or political or fervent or selling you something you don't even care about. Some are ranting, belittling and rude. Others are just a tag, like I'm Irish, I like Shih Tzu, my kids brighter than your kid, or I let Calvin pee on other cars. Or my personal favorite, "I

More Death Less Caffeine

What the hell? First my sendmail box is axed and now my coffee maker kicks the bucket. I mean sure we can manage with a windows box taking over for smtp functions. We've all adjusted to meaningless event log entries, stupid glurge icons and pointless clicking through Microsoft menus, but my coffee pot! How much can one man endure!My wife wakes me up the other morning."Hon, the coffee pot won't