The big news here today is yesterday evening’s car crash involving the New Jersey governor. The governor is badly hurt but we are told that his injuries are not life threatening but obviously life altering. He has a really tough year ahead of him, certainly. The governor was not driving at the time of the …
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Do IT: Career Growth – Growing Organically
I have found that there are two approaches to continuing IT career growth: Growing Organically (aka Pyramid Skills) or what I like to call “Going for the Jugular” (aka Needle Skills.) Both are viable methods for advancing your career and working deeper into the field. Growing Organically means accumulating a broad base of knowledge covering …
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Do IT: Breaking In – My Home Network
To illustrate through some of my own experiences I wanted to talk about the network that I built at home in the late 1990s. When I was building my own home network it was very uncommon for people to have networks at home and “home networking equipment” was not yet available so I was working …
April 12, 2007: The Last Chapter of Slaughterhouse Five
It is so funny how Oreo really knows what his week schedule is like. He knows that he goes to daycare most days and is ready to go but on Thursdays he knows that he stays home with me and he just burries himself in the bed and doesn’t try to leave. Kurt Vonnegut, renowned …
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April 11, 2007: To Do Today
Today was a really busy day. I started this morning trying to pay bills and trying to get new auto insurance this morning before I even left the house. Coincidentally, the insurance agent that I managed to reach in Orlando, Florida was actually a graduate of SUNY Geneseo and knew our address! Now THAT is …