Moving On…

Moving On…

My last day at Instructure was just a little over two weeks ago now. It was a hard day, saying goodbye to the wonderful friendships I’ve built with that wonderful team. I had a fantastic job as a Sales Engineer supporting a brilliant inside and outside sales team. It was a challenging job, to be [...]

Stash!

Stash!

Nearly two years ago, I was in the thick of working at Mozy, the cloud storage and backup company. If you’re curious about my time there, checkout my “Wins” page. For those of you who aren’t aware, at the core of Mozy is a mind-bendingly awesome storage infrastructure. The first years at Mozy were spent [...]

Thanksgiving Fallout

Thanksgiving Fallout

Take a look at the domain name. Combine that with one of my personal mottos: “Work hard, play hard”. You now have a pretty good picture of my Thanksgiving! Here’s the short list: Dislocated shoulder (right side) Hyperextended knee (right side) Dislocated hip (right side) Massive swelling/bruising of knee (right side) Bloody cleat marks on [...]

ESXi, Old Hardware, and You

ESXi, Old Hardware, and You

ESXi 5.0 was released a short while ago. I run a small datacenter in my basement, some of which is virtualized using ESXi. The hardware is unfortunately a bit dated and has never been officially supported by VMware so, needless to say, some customizations are in order. For those struggling with old hardware and incomplete [...]

Timp Independence Experiment

Timp Independence Experiment

As you no doubt are aware, my family consists of 2 adults (well, at least one responsible adult and another that looks like one) and 5 children. Scroll down a bit to get a refresher course on the family (with pictures!). Feel free to jump down there now. Back? You’ll remember that our 5 children [...]