The Ownage

This weekend I will be migrating a domain to Google Apps. In other words, moving all the users from Exchange to Gmail. This will involve some DNS editing, as well as testing out the google-provided email migration tools. They have one tool that you can use to transfer your users emails to their new accounts [...]

Building a Linux powered TCP/IP water sensor

Today (which happens to be the last day of a pay period) our Executive Director sends me an email saying that she needs to see me “at 4:55pm”. Due to the timing I assumed that someone was getting axed. I didn’t think it would be me, as surely they wouldn’t have tipped me off, but [...]

We have a generous work holiday coming up. We are off from Dec 24th until Jan 4th-12 days! Of course I am always 24/7 oncall, but hopefully since nobody else is working, there should be no incidents, although that doesn’t count for much since a server or two could still go belly-up. I will keep [...]

I’m going to take my RHCE (RedHat Certified Engineer) exam on July 25h.  Wish me luck, as I am sure going to need it. The RHCE exam is said to be one of the hardest cert exams there is. It is a completely performance-based exam, so if you don’t know everything cold, you WILL fail. [...]

Thursday I got promoted. I now have a dual title, “Senior Systems Engineer/IT Team Lead”. The promotion also included a decent raise (not as much as I hoped for but met my minimal requirements). I guess they felt sorry for me doing 3+ peoples jobs at once. For those who don’t know, they fired they [...]

There was a relatively large layoff at my company today. For a while I had a strong feeling that I was one of the ones on the chopping block, probably helped by the fact that my email account was locked at the same time as the other folks. Turned out to just be a coincidence [...]

There will be two types of responses to this post, depending on if you can make use of the code or not; “Cool!” or “Uhhh okay…” Summary: Hobbit2IPPhone is an application I have written that provides a Hobbit Monitor display on a Cisco 79xx IP Phone. The display is fully interactive, as it displays the [...]

Words cannot adequately describe the sheer hell I had to go through to get my insurance issues worked out, but my sleep study is finally scheduled! My appointment is for this Sunday night. There simply isn’t enough room in my database to input all of the craziness I have had to go through with my [...]

I went on a walk last night…been over a week since I last went. My back muscles felt much stronger this time, and I was able to bypass one of my normal resting stops (bus stop), and another I limited myself to 30 seconds of rest. I think next time I will increase the distance. [...]