It’s almost hard to believe yet another year has come and gone.
I hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas and a safe and joyous New Year!
technology, networking, virtualization and IP telephony
It’s almost hard to believe yet another year has come and gone.
I hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas and a safe and joyous New Year!
Our own Philadelphia Flyers will be playing in this years NHL Winter Classic being held at Fenway Park in Boston, MA on January 1, 2010. I enjoy playing the game myself and watching the NHL, AHL and college games. I’m only hoping that the Flyers, a team named by some as a contender for this years Stanley Cup, don’t embarrass Philadelphia fans any further having lost 14 of their last 17 games.
Here’s the time lapse footage provided by NHL.TV of the transformation of Fenway Park.
References;
2010 Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic
I thought it was well past time for me to write about this topic. I’m just going to post some links and ask everyone to make up their own minds or at the very least to consider what Net Neutrality means to you. I will tell you that I’m a huge Net Neutrality advocate. I can only image what companies like Verizon, Comcast and AT&T might try doing if allowed.
I would urge anyone interested in voicing their support to visit Save the Internet and sign the petition.
I found this great graphic over on DVICE that should really help put it into perspective for the common Internet user.
There’s also a great article from Paul Venezia over on Infoworld; http://www.infoworld.com/d/hardware/net-neutrality-stupid-stupid-does-179
Cheers!
I was referred to this article by a friend who thought it had more truths than a lot of things in life these days. It was an article by Jeff Ello at CIO. I’m not going to cross post the entire article but I will post the opening excerpt;
I can sum up every article, book and column written by notable management experts about managing IT in two sentences: “Geeks are smart and creative, but they are also egocentric, antisocial, managerially and business-challenged, victim-prone, bullheaded and credit-whoring. To overcome these intractable behavioral deficits you must do X, Y and Z.”
On initial glance it doesn’t look that promising but let me tell you that is one of the best articles I’ve read on the subject. It’s a long article but well worth the time and effort.
http://www.cio.com/article/501697/The_Unspoken_Truth_About_Managing_Geeks
Cheers!
We’re coming up on two years since I started (October 10, 2007) this blog on Blogspot and I thought I’d make a post about the past and future directions.
I’ve met a lot of great people, both users and vendors, both experts and novices, and learned a lot over the past two years. Let me just say that there are a lot of helpful people out there, the problem is connecting with them in such a way that everyone benefits. With the sale of Nortel this blog might take on some added value going forward as folks try to support their aging, possibly End-of-Life, Nortel equipment. I’ve already started to archive a number of Nortel documents just in case they disappear from the Nortel website as Avaya closes the deal and moves forward with the integration of the product and business units. With that said though I’m also going to start branching out adding some content around Cisco, VMware, Asterisk, etc. It will still be technical I just might hop around a bit depending on which topics interest me. I’m also going to start adding some video… more to come on that.
With respect to the physical appearance of the blog, I’ve was concerned that the previous theme was just a little too busy (although this new theme is starting to look busy again… I wonder who’s fault that is!). I wanted to focus on the content and not just load up every possible WordPress widget under the sun so I decided to make a change to the Fusion Theme by Milenko Popovici. Thanks for your hard work Milenko! I’ve already started to play with the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) trying to tweak a few things – I’ve got to learn somewhere!
On the financial side I thought I would be 100% open with everyone here. While I’m not looking to make money from this blog I am looking to try and break even. To date I’ve shelled out around $263.05 for hosting, while I’ve received around $212.27 in ad revenue leaving me short $50.78 which isn’t all that bad and very acceptable from my viewpoint although you wouldn’t believe the additional tax forms I had to fill out to satisfy the IRS in case they ever audited me. I wouldn’t dare add up the amount of personal time I’ve put into this blog or responding to personal email messages or the wife would probably beat me silly.
While I’m happy to report that visits are up 2,000% this year over last year I’m sad to report that I still don’t rank with respect to Google’s Page Rank (no back links for me). You can see the statistics from Statcounter below for the past 30 days where I’m averaging about 311 visitors daily and over 522 page loads daily.
So I would ask that if you find this blog interesting or helpful please link to it, or Digg it, or share it to whatever social network you might enjoy. Please don’t SPAM or SPIM (I just heard this one last month… SPamming Instant Messaging). If you like the site and content why not just drop a reply saying Hi! When you’ve done that head over to the forums and help spread the knowledge.
You’ll find me on LinkedIn, Delicous, Digg, Blogged, Disquis, and probably a few more that I’ve forgotten about.
Thanks for the support!
Cheers!