Mikes Thoughts

I always like the Technorati “State” Reports but they always provoke more questions than answers about this beloved, perhaps dys-functional and upside down media we use. I read over the Why and How and Where and How Much posts with some interest. But I have more basic questions than the big ones. The why question [...]

I enjoyed all the movies like Sundance and the Sting; but mostly I enjoyed the style and essence of the life of the man. One saving grace is that we have a body of work of his that spanned 50 years give or take which gives us a view of both the legend and the [...]

Its amazing how anthropologists take a small idea which may relate to something, drill into it, produce a idea which ties that small idea to other ideas that cross cultures. Here is a small and simple one I did. I was driving to work the other day and noticed that it was a beautiful day [...]

This weekend was a quiet one for me. At work on Friday, I had reached the end of the tether running Windows. XP Professional decided it was unhappy and I had been unhappy for awhile being away from “The Linux”. I had gotten more that way of late with moving to a position of openly [...]

One of my tasks at work these days is to build a knowledge management solution for the company. We have Redmine in place which I favor; but if you want to manage knowledge, you have to be sensitive to its requirements and dissemination. Otherwise, the very people that would normally use a tool will swear [...]

Its been over a week since a blogpost. Things at work have been busier and I’ve been re-assigned to new responsibilities which carry requirements for me to take active ownership of a number of priority projects on the Linux side. That’s a good thing since I enjoy that work immensely. I did notice the time [...]

When VMware announced that ESXi would be downloadable for free, I knew that I’d be able to find a good source to do a so-called unsupported install onto a whitebox. Its tricky though. The installer just will not see any ole network interface card or hard disk drives. I’ll skip all the failures and get [...]

I spent today with family and did a bbq tritip, turkey breast, some special potatoes that I like cooking, and cauliflower. If you have never bbq’ed with Newman’s Italian Dressing as a marinade; you are missing out. Its simply great on veggies, fowl, and other stuff like spuds. But I also thought and sat and [...]