To anticipate and prevent
First — Black Friday. Did you go out? Did you get any deals? I certainly didn’t go out, though I hear things are getting massively out of hand. My mother was checking the sales on Thanksgiving and found that JCPenney was opening at 4 AM on Friday. For the love of kami-sama, that is too…
The AMD Experience ‘Badge’ A few weeks ago I was contacted via Twitter to see if I was interested in attending a bay area “tech/gamer blogger event”. I was a little bit suspicious, but eventually I acquiesced (thanks to John’s constant harassing). As it turns out, I got an invite to the “AMD Experience aboard…
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I’ve been running VMware ESXi 3.5 on one of our servers at work; I have been also been running the VMware Infrastructure Client (for 3.5) and it worked just perfectly. Now I’m going to upgrade to EXSi 4.0, so I figured I’d upgrade VMwave vSphere, which seems to be the exact same software. Anyways, as…
A little while back I, with the help of some friendly competition with Lauren, finally got my A+ certification. Well, more importantly I finally got off my rear to study for it and take the test. I thought I’d briefly share the material I used to study and what the test was like. I read…
So I’m traveling a bit as of late. Most of my traveling is normally car based, but I’ve also got two plane based trips back to back. The first is a business trip to Texas and the second is my vacation to Minnesota. I’m currently on my way to Texas (as I write this) and…
West Entrance to Maker Faire 08 [© CC-BY-SA-3.0 Jon Davis](http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maker_Faire_2008_San_Mateo_Entrance.JPG) This year the Wikimedia Foundation is going to be there again! Of course that means we need volunteers. If you’re in the SF Bay Area and a Wikimedian, you should volunteer to help out at the booth. You can find more info about it on…
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