Instant Message Excerpt: On Being a Network Engineer, 9

Posted By on June 20, 2009 at 6:41 pm

Customers… can’t live with them, can’t have a job without them.

Juan(17:55:45): I was hoping to have a weekend with at least one day un-ruined
Russ(17:56:29): I see the ticket you just got
Russ(17:56:51): this isn’t gonna be your weekend

[Nor, for the record, mine.]

Breaking news in the age of the Internet

Posted By on June 15, 2009 at 2:20 pm

After a few days of downtime due to my injured back (which is improving, albeit slowly, thanks for asking) I went back to work this weekend. The network was running pretty smoothly; there were very few problems I had to deal with.
I spent my free time furiously hitting “refresh” on Twitter’s #IranElection search page.
Fascinating, and heart-rending.
Note to the Bush haters: that is what a stolen election really looks like.
Hot Air headlines points to a handy guide on how to track the Iranian uprising on Twitter and other social media.