Tech Talk

Its been a couple weeks now since I’ve written a Mozy backup status update.  We have progressed quite a ways in the backup process.  I have interrupted the backups almost every evening once I get home because it was saturating my upstream connection and degrading my internet performance while I was trying to use it. [...]

Ok, I’ll admit it.  I’ve taken the VCP test and didn’t pass.  (ok, not sure how many rungs I’ve just fallen on your ladder…  I’m sure a few).  So let me rationalize make excuses explain. I took the test last year at VMworld without studying much prior.  And, I hadn’t had any hand-on experience with [...]

Certifications have always been something high on my list to-do, but something I never seem to get to.  I did all the research and read skimmed most of the Microsoft library in a quest for MCP and MCSE about 8 or 9 years ago.  I never took a single test.  About five years ago, I [...]

So, my life has been no less busy in the last 10 days, but I did catch up with my Google Reader and all the news of the day.  My wife is busy finishing a project management class for her Master program, so our family has been a little stretched lately.  On top of that, [...]

And now, a post about nothing…..
Its finally happened.  I missed  a day in Google Reader… I didn’t read any of my news today.  I never got caught up enough at work to actually have time to take in the news.  I also didn’t have time to read much of my personal email during the day.   [...]

And I quote CNN today – “New services promise online life after death.”  No, its not fountain of youth, but it is a real issue that some have already found — what happens to your virtual you when you die?  How do you securely transfer domains and virtual “real estate” that could have real value? [...]

So, its been exactly a week since I started my Mozy backup.  I have now progressed to completion of approximately 20GB of my data backed up.  My iMac froze (yes, it does happen…) one day and I had to restart it when I got home from work, but the backup kicked off again.  So, 20GB [...]

This post is a little off topic.  Some of you may know that I met my wife while working on our college newspaper together over 10 years ago.  So, beyond the technology, one of my other niche passions is the news business, particularly magazines and newspapers.  (I, also, hate the 24-hour news and how its [...]

Since posting about Backblaze, I got some very good comments about Mozy.  They have also not been sitting idle and they’ve added a few features to the service.  One of those new feature is the ability to get your restore on external media shipped to you, a key differentiator to Backblaze, I said earlier.   The [...]

Yeah, so its a small milestone, but a milestone none the less.  There have been days where I wondered why I was posting anything or even had a blog, but the past month or two has been very rewarding – getting good feedback in the comments and finding that my posts are (hopefully) helpful to [...]