2014

Shit, is an Oreo serving sizes still 3 cookies because I could eat a dozen or two of these tonight. #dietsblow

Meraki Certified

Wednesday I had the chance to spend the whole day soaking in knowledge. Always a welcomed event. This time it centered around Cisco Meraki. As an employee of a Cisco Premier partner (AOS), and a current CCNA, I was able to attend this one day boot camp on Meraki and earn their Certified Meraki Networking Association (CMNA) designation. Other things you get for attending the class: CMNA polo shirt MX60 security appliance MS220–8P switch MR26 wireless access point Lunch Lunch was delivered today.

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Most popular Google Search results in Ohio right now: “how to get burn marks off a jersey”

I purposefully don’t adjust position in crowded elevators as people get off, just to make everyone else riding uncomfortable.

#AnnoyedConsultant was up at 5am, for what, dear customer?

Germany for the extra point!

A score of 6-0 in a football game, now this makes sense! #BRAvsGER

Why do I even eat at fast food taco places? I never leave thinking “that was a good idea.”

Ever start writing a joke to post on Twitter and as you’re crafting it, stop and realize, it’s not really that funny?

Yeah me neither.

It’s frickin’ freezing in here, Mr. Bigglesworth.

If the website of IT guy you use goes to a domain auction site to purchase it for $1995, you’re gonna have a bad time. #protip

If you lose your domain administrator password, you’re gonna have a bad time. #protip

ABC: Always Buy (Apple)Care

Power blip in the middle of an Apple TV software upgrade. Hope this turns out OK.

Cut the memory usage on VCSA 5.5 in half for your home lab by reducing JVM heap sizes vmwaremine.com/2014/07/04/mem…

When your pants are so short that the pocket liners hang down below your pants, YOUR PANTS ARE TOO SHORT. #AngryOldMan

I feel lacking in my BBQ duties. Seems like everyone is running a brisket overnight and my Traeger has the night off.

Ribs, tomorrow.

Today we celebrate the gallant sacrifice of Russell Casse, who gave his own life to stop the alien invasion 18 years ago today. #eagle20fox2

I’m glad to see that they’re really fleshing out the feature set of Fusion Professional to be a lot closer to Workstation for Mac.

VMware Fusion Tech Preview 2 can now connect to ESXi & vCenter Server! virtuallyghetto.com/2014/07/vmware…

Just messed around with a Surface Pro 3. Nice look and feel. Love the accuracy of their stylus.

Not sure if I should be annoyed, or thankful, that in the last 24 hours only about 1/4 of the emails I’ve sent out have garnered a reply.

Apparently the NSA considers Linux users a threat to national security arstechnica.com/security/2014/…

Tweet Sweep

I’ve been trying to determine the best way to link the blog and my Twitter account together. Obviously I tweet links to much of what I post here, but I tweet far more often than I blog. There are usually lots of good nuggets that I find, either links to other blogs, KB articles, or even just retweeting insights. As an experiment I’m going to start putting together a little digest with some extended comments from me on them.

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Apple patents ability to detect location of device and adjust security access requirements accordingly patentlyapple.com/patently-apple…

Another day, another call from the bank with a compromised credit card. Better quit trying to charge all those hookers and blow.

VMware Horizon View 6 Firewall and Network Ports Visualized blogs.vmware.com/consulting/201…

Why oh why did I shutdown this Windows 7 VM without telling it to skip the 142 updates?

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg apologizes for offending you, but not for actually doing what they did tnw.to/l/J78f

Anyone using Cisco Jabber with VMware View Persona Management in floating desktops? I have questions for you.