Good Gotcha Day Friday

| April 22, 2011

Earth Day? No. Good Friday? Emphatically yes. Bonus? It was three years ago today that I brought home two of the best things I have ever had in my life, Packet and Kismet. (The senior kitteh, Mycah, came several years before.) I’m pretty sure I’d give up everything before I would part with these little […]

Instant Message Excerpts: On Being a Network Engineer, 13

| April 21, 2011

After having been on conference calls non-stop since 2pm, and in the middle of one such call, an IM from my manager appears… [manager](20:38:41): Russ, can I throw you under the bus? Russ(20:38:55): ? Russ(20:39:33): if it has anything to do w/ that load balancer problem for later tonight, you’d be throwing the customer under […]