2017

Now I have Kenny G songs stuck in my head.

Random idea: if you’re signing up for a free service, think about how they’re making money to stay in business (hint: you are the product)

Fixed my semi-busted TV. Pulled the power cable. Hard reboot. Works fine now.

Things that went from shaggy to clean cut today:

There is a Rockabye Baby rendition of Hamilton. OK kids, it’s nap time! itun.es/us/l9Prib itun.es/us/l9Prib

Seven days with no coffee.

It’s almost like the title of a horror movie.

Starcraft is now free, really really free. arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/04…

Functionally the bigger screen of the 6/7 is great and all, but going by just blind feel the 5/SE is the perfect phone size.

Why is everyone talking about Turkey? Don’t you know you’re supposed to eat ham on Easter?

Intel pulls out of OpenStack amp-timeinc-net.cdn.ampproject.org/c/amp.timeinc.…

I’m on my fourth day without coffee.

I’m always thrilled to sit and wait for a table when we have a reservation.

Oh, yes youtu.be/zB4I68XVPzQ

Today on Twitter: dropping bombs, on-premises.

Patch/reboot remote host. It takes really long time. Get nervous. Ping test. The first 7 attempts drop. Panic! It starts responding. Relax.

I need a nap.

My number of grammatical Twitter typos is up dramatically this week.

Is 1080 content on a 4K 55" panel going to look as awful as 480 did/does on 1080 panels?

I was having dreams last night about logical switches and distributed firewall rules. #TooMuchNSX

Twitter announces (mostly positive) changes to third party API access macstories.net/linked/the-twi…

Clips by Apple is now available appsto.re/us/Jufsib.i

I’m not even sure what to say about this Pepsi ad, except maybe … why? m.youtube.com/watch?v=PCEm21…

OVH Group to acquire vCloud Air business linkis.com/www.vmware.com…

Know when to walk away. Know when to run.

Choosing Electives

I’m going to start this by saying something that might seem strange for a post like this, but is no surprise to my closest friends: The last two months, and especially the last two weeks, have been very stressful and mentally draining. Without getting into the details of it all, I will simply say that the biggest contributing factor, or at least the medium that has facilitated the stress, has been social media.

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VMware is “going native on network virtualization” and shedding support for third-party vSwitches blogs.vmware.com/networkvirtual…

Oh, great, hail. #ksstorms

Had to move my VCAP6-DCD exam out from this Saturday to sometime in May, just have had way too much going on right now to focus on study.

Trying to take a video of “Hey Siri” for home automation, using a second device, is a problem anytime you try to play the video back.

Is there a way to tell when the HFS to APFS conversion on iOS devices is completed?

Just for the sake of my own personal anxiety levels.