09/22/21 Podcasting is, and has been, the rage for a while now. What electronic self-publishing tools did to open up and democratize written content, podcasts have done for the are…
09/20/21 (This piece was co-authored by Alex Taylor and Leon Adato) As we did in our first installment, we want to provide fair warning: spoilers lie ahead. If, even after all this…
09/17/21 (This piece was co-authored by Alex Taylor and Leon Adato) Before we take flight here, let me start with fair warning—this article contains several spoilers for The Falcon…
08/13/21 Recently, my colleagues Pete Di Stefano, Ashley Adams, and I hosted a webcast on the topic of capacity planning and optimization. You can listen/watch it here, it was a re…
08/02/21 IT Pro Day has always been about singing the praises of practitioners across the vast spectrum of tech specialties, from network engineers and systems administrators; to i…
07/28/21 A year ago, in July of 2020, I started my SysAdmin Day post with the words, “I’m not going to even try to pretend SysAdmin Day arrives this year under conditions anyone wo…
07/02/21 Imposter syndrome is, unfortunately, an evergreen topic within IT circles. For whatever reason, many of us who make our living in technology—who put in long hours acquirin…
06/29/21 There’s an old joke that goes something like this: back in the days of vaudeville, comedy acts were all the rage. This young guy wants to get into the business, but he’s n…
06/22/21 To say the landscape of my desk is “eclectic” would be both accurate and, in some ways, an understatement. Perhaps it’s a method of accommodating my attention-deficit beha…
06/08/21 Recently, in recognition of Geek Pride Day, PressBox asked Chrystal Taylor, Sascha Giese, and me to share our thoughts on what it meant to us to be a “geek” and how our ge…
05/31/21 Last week shared some of my early experiences working in non-technical jobs, and the lessons I learned which turned out to be relevant to my IT career as well. If you miss…
05/25/21 A couple of weeks ago, Kevin Kline (@kekline) and I reminisced about activities from our youth (I’m talking about public speaking and sports, not “getting up from a chair …