Changelings, Whisperers, Entrepreneurs of the Jet Stream

I’m going to be heading out to Plano, Texas in a few days on my first business trip and I’m kinda excited. Not so much about the destination; but about the going. I don’t travel for business that much these days so a trip wrangled to a big enterprise customer is interesting, fun, and paid for by this certain large software partner of ours. Thanks guys!

Virtualization and Paying the Bills

I’ve blogged a few times about virtualization and how it can be deployed, used, and we can sharpen up our skillsets with virtual iron. What I appreciate the most about virtual iron is its flexibility. The servers and workstations are big files and there are simple little files in VMware that drive them that you can edit. Its much like so many other things in Linux. And its one of the things I love about it compared to Windows. Linux is just common sensical and it arranges itself in files you can edit at “crunch time”. Windows has its flaky registry which can get unhappy and cause problems. I can make a Linux box unbootable and still boot into to it and rescue it most times. I can zero out the Grub boot loader and resurrect it or fix some boot issue. Power! Virtualization takes this to another level to me. We can create things within things and power them with virtual iron. Create realities that are fictitious but that perform complex acts when they are realities. Lets not even add up the power savings.

The 10-year old with the power of the ipod

I’m watching my daughter dancing around with a sansa mp3 player I bought her. I think I’ll stop blogging and just watch… See ya