Go have watch, and listen, and resonate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geSfK9PzEDw ...or a Shattered Assumption of the kind that blindsides you at 4PM... on a Friday... right before a holiday weekend... with family arriving to lazily and quite happily spend the week with you... while at the same moment, ambulances rush to take your broken body and very… Continue reading Hitting Rock Bottom?
Room for Improvement
Stumbled across this thing called Xebia Labs the other day, added a few of the named components to have it return its own map and... ...realized that we have loads of room for improvement. There are so many things we can do differently or to improve our deployment process.
Thought of the Moment
It occurs to me that maybe I've been promoted over time from Captain Obvious to Major Annoyance. Or have I been field promoted to Colonel Pannek? Perhaps I'm well on my way to General Failure.
Thoughts on the Neuro-Psychology Exam
[Alternate title, "Ritalin: It's not what you think."] It's now been about a year or so since I did the post-TBI Neurology/Psychology battery of tests -- the Neuro/Psych exam. I think I'd said before that these things were often performed prior to returning to work, but because I'm so determined (and somewhat narrow-minded) and was… Continue reading Thoughts on the Neuro-Psychology Exam
A Home Network Addition
I love Nagios. I love Raspberry PIs. It's awkward to shoehorn Nagios into into an rPi. Somebody fixed that particular annoyance. Honestly, this has been around for a few years, but I'll have to learn something about it and stop trying to hack together my own solutions. Some summary info is on an older Cat5… Continue reading A Home Network Addition
