remember to vote – myers 2016
Here’s a quick reminder for all you voting types out there – vote for Myers 2016, “I suck less than the other guy”.
Author: antipaucity
time tracking is broken – and “hours” makes it worse
This recent Medium post irked me. It’s by one of the creators / operators / owners of Hours, a “new” time-tracking and -reporting company. The intro had such promise, because it is so true: There is a reason why almost every time tracking service out there says it takes the pain out of time tracking….
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let’s encrypt centos 6 – truly free ssl
There’s been quite a bit of excitement surrounding Let’s Encrypt recently – a truly 100% free SSL issuer. Last week I helped a friend of mine get his first Let’s Encrypt certificate generated and configured for his website. One of the things I found incredibly frustrating is that Let’s Encrypt does not have a package…
prediction look back
Time to look back at last year’s tech predictions. I did this at the half-way point, so let’s see what has changed since then. AIX is still kickin’ HPUX hasn’t died yet 🙁 Solaris is still being clung-to by Oracle HP split in half – count this a win IBM has dropped from 162 to…
i’m not technical
I am. But not really. To paraphrase my prelicensing class instructor, “95% of consulting is not technical work – it’s psychological”. 5% of consulting is delivery. The remainder is listening, empathizing, training, selling, encouraging, improving, and a whole bunch more gerunds. I’m an unlicensed psychiatrist dabbling in technology -just call me Frasier Malone – the single…
happy 65th
My dad turns 65 today. Congratulations! You can retire… or not – whatever floats your boat 🙂
dell buys emc
So I missed predicting anything like this one. If you’ve been under a rock, like apparently I was last week, you’ve missed out on hearing Dell is purchasing EMC. For $67 billion. With a “B”. This seems to be taking lots of people by surprise, but it makes perfect sense: Dell is already a huge supplier of servers into not only…