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Fun while it lasted

It’s been quiet around here lately and with good reason. I’ve been buckling down, trying to make some headway on my New Years resolutions. I started learning C#, got more into C++ & Ruby, began looking into how powershell could be used to make Windows administration easier, helped plan a regional Ruby conference (sdforum), graduated with a BA in Biblical Studies(finally!), and got a new job.

The new job was great. The people were great, the work environment was fantastic, and my boss was very interested in helping me to develop in my career goals. Unfortunately a few months after I joined them, they ran into a bit of a funding problem (VC’s decided to pull the plug). They’d had about a 4-5 year run and had a rough start. Last year they started to turn things around and were on track to do really well this year. But for those funding us, it wasn’t enough.

Oh well, such is the way with startups.

One thing I’m grateful for is the fact that I still do consulting work. We currently have one contract in the pipe, and could very easily grow it. I’m just concerned that it might make it more difficult to purchase a home, should we decide to go that route.

I’ve put my resume out there and have already got a handful of bites in the last 24 hours. Hopefully something interesting pops up.

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Broked

Man…. When it rains it pours. The automation system upgrade didn’t go according to plan and we had to roll back the changes. Unfortunately, the roll back made things worse, and we discovered that there was a time stamping problem so our automated backups were failing but not reporting that they were failing. As a result the database is being slowly reconstructed and updated by hand (yuk!).

It is now 10:35am and I haven’t gone home yet (got here at 7pm yesterday). At least when I’m done with this my weekend begins.

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Another late night…

I thought the title of an ok CD by DJ Dan would be perfect to borrow for this blog post.

I’m here at work for some maintenance to the automation system as well as our Samba server. Unfortunately the Samba server had some unexpected complications but I was eventually able to get it sorted out. Next is to get an additional two machines up and running in the automation system and then upgrade the software system wide.

If Craig & Mike get finished there will be room for the another 3 servers in the rack which are desperately needed.

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