Burning the Candles, Thanks Corona Style
- mjmanos
- March 21, 2020
- Corona Virus
- IT
- Poem
- Thank you
Your IT Engineers ensure, that your business can still run
While at home you sit complain that isolation is not fun.
And to that note, the network teams who hard at work perform
Ensuring uptime, traffic shaping, temples rubbed raw, worn…..
A little art, a little science
- mjmanos
- December 7, 2019
- Jay Moran
- Radia Perlman
When work, art, science, and heroes intersect.
Read MoreInside Bill’s Brain : An infomercial chockful of tang
I finally had a chance this weekend to sit down and watch the three-part Netflix documentary “Inside Bill’s Brain” about Bill Gates. As someone who worked at Microsoft in the waning years of significant “Bill involvement” through his transition into his next chapter of life, I was really curious how he would be portrayed in […]
Read MoreYou keep using that word. I do not think that word means what you think it means.
Dilbert nails it again. I feel like this conversation happens at least three times a week. One would think that with the “Cloud” being around for a few years, with examples of many failed attempts and lessons learned being in relative abundance — This would start to be an exception rather than the rule. Alas, […]
Read MoreOMG THIS! – Elon Musk’s Three Rules for a Meeting
- mjmanos
- August 24, 2019
This Inc Article on Elon Musk’s three rules for meetings is a must read. I say that as it is a spiritual companion philosophy to my own meeting rules where a meeting can only be one of three types: Distribute, Discuss, or Decide. Distribute – Usually a town-hall or informational update where the flow of […]
Read MoreBalancing Redundancy and Availability – A good think
- mjmanos
- August 24, 2019
I recently read an interesting blog post by Marc Brooker who is an engineer at Amazon working on Lambda Services. The full post (found here) is worth a read and some real think time for your own environments. It discusses his four rules around when/how to identify if Redundancy actually assists availability. His rules are […]
Read MorePoof! Where did all your posts go!
- mjmanos
- August 22, 2019
If you are a long time reader you may be wondering what happened to all of my posts from 2002 through roughly August of 2019 and where they went. The simple answer is this: The posts are still there. All archived off. Including all of the witty and not so witty comments I have collected […]
Read MoreTesting out new Theme for Re-Launch of Loosebolts
- mjmanos
- August 21, 2018
Test Plug post to play around with new theme format, sizing, look, feel, and stuff like that. Nothing to read here unless you are super bored.
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