(Editor’s note: I’m going to fire up the Delicious autoposter again. Those of you that are long-time subscribers (thank you!) may remember a time when I did this as a type of short-take post. Twitter and the death of del.icio.us ended it for a couple of years, but enough things are fixed up now that I think I’ll bring it back. Plus, I’m hoping that it’ll encourage me to keep up more with my blog reading. Thanks y’all. – Bob)
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This is the original text that Baz Luhrmann put into his spoken word song “Everybody’s Free (to Wear Sunscreen)”. My favorite quote from it is: “Don’t worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday.” Sounds like advice I’d give a junior sysadmin, though people should not conflate or confuse planning with worrying.
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Been meaning to set something like this up, for some low-cost DR for vCenter. Now I don’t have to actually figure out how. Thanks Chris!
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This came through @beaker the other day as a retweet. Scary stuff. “Sailors who are really good, know everything about boats, and have thousands of hours at sea are continually and unshakably terrified while on the ocean. Not because they don’t know what they’re doing, but because they know the ocean so well as to fear it deeply, regardless of how conditions may initially appear. Novices, on the other hand, usually proceed with an affect which is considerably more blithe. As Brian Toss once said, there are only three types of sea-faring sailors — dead, novices, and pessimists. I knew this, but not well enough.”
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I’ve said in a few of my presentations that you, as a sysadmin or virtualization admin, are a business asset. This is a great, if somewhat NSFW, presentation about that. Good points & short. Go home, get a life, then return to work refreshed and ready to work.
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This deserves more than a mention, and it’s sort of a ramble, but I will say in passing that he touches on a lot of stuff, like technical debt, excuses, and the idea that things are temporary fixes. Nothing is ever a temporary fix.