Back in the U.S.[S.]A. November 21, 2006
Posted by Phillip in : geek , add a commentI have been back from Paris for almost a week now and I have been lazy about posting an update. In short, the trip was pretty good. I spent the entire first day touring Paris (I will post pics soon) and the balance of the time at Novell’s Global Kickoff meeting at EuroDisney.
My laptop was stolen on day 1, so I was unable to do any blog-updating while over in frog-land. Joke is really on the thief — enjoy that 4 year old laptop buddy! HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAA. PS: please mail my glasses back to me, kthx.
Au Revoir November 9, 2006
Posted by Phillip in : geek , add a commentSitting in the Austin Airport. I’ll be boarding in about 1 hour heading to Newark where I will catch a very long flight to Paris. This is going to get interesting…
Assuming those frogs let me use their internets, I may be updating my blog from Paris.
OMG! It’s Willie-FREAKIN-Nelson
Posted by Phillip in : geek , add a commentSo I hopped up to DFW last week for a one day meeting. It wasn’t bad, I jumped on a plane in the morning and flew to DFW and then came back to Austin that same afternoon. I don’t mind the one day travels. The important part is that on my way back, none other than Willie Nelson was chillin out in first class. We exchanged nods and then I moved back to sit in coach with the rest of the non-potsmoking, non-famous scumbags.
Seriously. It was Willie Nelson. There were no braids in his hair though. It’s also worth noting that he was the only person sitting in First Class to be wearing a “trucker cap”.
An open letter to Rush October 26, 2006
Posted by Phillip in : geek , add a commentDear Rush,
You’re a dick and I’m tired of reading about you and your idiotic accusation of Michael J. Fox.
If you don’t agree with someone; argue it on an intellectual level, not an emotional one.
Warmest Regards,
Phillip
Not to toot my horn…. October 24, 2006
Posted by Phillip in : geek , add a commentbut *toot* *toot*.
I just found out today (a month late) that I have been pseudo-published again. Previously, I was a customer of my current employer, and I wrote a gut-wrenching article on how to make a remote loader (a component of Novell’s Identity Manager) run on Debian Linux. Well folks, I have done it again. Don’t get too excited, but I wrote and submitted another riveting article, this time on using RSYNC and CRON to replace tiered electronic distribution (TED) with ZENworks Linux Management. A product I know all too well.
Here is the link: http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/17825.html
You know.. incase you need help sleeping!
Back in business October 20, 2006
Posted by Phillip in : geek , add a commentSo a few updates to add.
I am back in Austin. I did end up missing my flight to Denver, but they put me on stand-by for the next flight out (3 hours later) and the only available seats were first class. Poor me, I *had* to suffer through first class all the way to Denver. The flight was about 2 hours. A few observations about first class:
1. The airlines are very determined to get some form of refreshment in your hands within 30 seconds of walking through the door. They don’t care if the dirty scumbags who are sitting in coach are going to die of hunger/thirst, they just want to keep the rich people happy.
2. Take-offs in first class are fun because it feels like you are on the space shuttle. Landings are scary because it feels as if the pilot is going to slam the nose of the aircraft RIGHT INTO THE GOUND!
3. If you crash, you may not be the first to die, but you will likely be third or fourth.
4. Remember that puffy british dude from Snakes on a Plane? He was *supposed* to ride in first class but got pwned. Yeah, he rode behind me.
Enough about the plane ride, I had a great time in Denver. I was there to shadow another guy on my team. Our team is made up of 9 or 10 guys that are spread all over the western US (texas to california). I was lucky enough to be there for a little snow. It got pretty cold and I didn’t check the weather before I left so I didn’t have a heavy coat. I did survive though.
I also ran into another Novell employee there. He was the guy who taught my Identity Manager & Audit classes that I took when I was working for Rackspace. It turns out that Novell was offering an IdM 3 class at the hotel at which I was staying. Mark and I got a chance to go to dinner and catch up. The Cheesecake Factory is the bomb — they actually have some pretty rockin’ tortilla soup. I was suprised since I am picky about my Mexican food. I finished that meal off with a lovely peice of original cheesecake with fresh strawberry topping.
Now that I am back in Austin, I received an email from my buddy whurley. It turns out that he has created a Linkedin Group for the OMC (that stands for Open Management Consortium). If you are interested in joining, click HERE. The timing of this is kind of amusing because as I was at work today, I was thinking that I need to try to get more involved with the community. I don’t think linkedin is going to help me do that, but I am gonna have lunch with whurley next week and see if I can do anything to help. I don’t have tons of free time, but I don’t mind helping where I can and where my talents can be useful.