Just. Write.
Somewhere, someone is thinking about writing. They are confused where to start. Maybe they think they can’t write well at all? Perhaps they even think they’ll run out of things to say? Guess what?
Just. Write.
Why A Blog?
Social media has taken over as the primary form of communication for a great majority of the population. Status updates, wall posts, and picture montages are the way we tell everyone what we’re up to. But this kind of communication is fast and ephemeral. Can you recall tweets you made seven months ago? Unless you can remember a keyword, Twitter and Google do a horrible job of searching for anything past a few days old.
Blogs represent something different. They are the long form record of what we know. They expand beyond a status or point-in-time posting. Blogs can exist for months or years past their original post date. They can be indexed and shared and amplifed. Blogs are how we leave our mark on the world.
I’ve been fielding questions recently from a lot of people about how to get started in blogging. I’m a firm believer that everyone has at least one good blog post in them. One story Continue reading
Waste Not a Moment (Time Management)
One of the legends surrounding people who get a lot done is they simply don’t sleep. It’s long been said that I have some number of clones who do part of my work, or perhaps that if you ask different clones the same question, you’ll get different answers. This has, of course, been verified scientifically… But the truth is busy people do sleep, and they don’t have clones.
What they don’t do is waste the one resource everyone has a limited supply of — time. In the British Navy of yore, there was a phrase for this focus on using time effectively:
Waste not a moment.
Now I’m not here to give you time management tips and tricks. I’m happy enough to tell you what I do that seems to work. For instance —
- Set aside specific times to check email; don’t check it constantly.
- Schedule time to read and learn every day; still, however, slip in reading while you’re waiting in line, waiting on dinner by yourself, etc.
- Don’t spend a lot of time on social media. Don’t read the comments to a story, just the story.
- Don’t feel guilty about deleting things, or not reading them.
- Corollary one: Continue reading
Why Financial Services is Racing Ahead on OpenStack
AmEx, Wells Fargo, and others are moving quickly toward OpenStack deployments.
Link Aggregation in OpenFlow Environment
One of my readers couldn’t figure out how to combine Link Aggregation Groups (LAG, aka Port Channel) with OpenFlow:
I believe that in LAG, every traditional switch would know how to forward the packet from its FIB. Now with OpenFlow, does the controller communicate with every single switch and populate their tables with one group ID for each switch? Or how does the controller figure out the information for multiple switches in the LAG?
As always, the answer is “it depends”, and this time we’re dealing with a pretty complex issue.
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and after it a new dawn, but as any wise person will tell you, not before the last light of the sun casts long shadows across the landscape. I often wonder at the sequence of events, coincidences, accidents, opportunities and more that led to the formation of the person that is now my wife. The character […]
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