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LOPSA Elections next week!

The next elections for the LOPSA Board of Directors is next week!

Please review my candidate statement, and please vote for me if you are a current member of LOPSA. At the very least, vote!

Moving along...

So, as mentioned in a recent post, I relocated for a job. Well, I relocated for complex reasons, but it was initiated by a job offer. As mentioned in a previous post, I now work for D. E. Shaw Research, LLC in Endicott, NY. We relocated the farm operation to Brackney, PA just over the NY/PA border.

The hauling of stuff, animals, and people is complete, but there is much work left in unpacking and re-organizing everything from normal daily life to animal care-taking.

Movin' movin' movin'...

For everyone who, like me, got excited that I was actually posting... Okay, for those few who read my recent postings and finally got interested, I am in the process of packing up my farm and moving almost 900 miles. This process will be complete in the first week of June.

Mr. Trucks Regrets (He's been unable to blog of late.)

So, you haven't heard from me in a while. Again. Please don't act surprised. We know you'd just be faking to make me feel better.

LXer Interview

Scott Ruecker of LXer interviewed me via email about my involvement with LOPSA and the SCaLE U training classes coming up in a couple weeks on February 20 in

Blogging hurdles

So, apparently I have to rethink not whether I want to blog, because I think I made that mostly clear in the last post, but I have to rethink my process.

I thought about why I almost never post to this blog.

bio

Jesse Trucks has worked in a startup, at an ISP in the 90's, as the single IT guy, and as part of an organization with nearly 150 system administrators maintaining more than 5,500 enterprise servers. He has, also, managed a team of systems administrators for a consulting firm, and recently worked on a team doing Unix systems related research and development for new projects and products, process improvement, and advanced technical assistance for internal clients and coworkers.

About Confessions of a SysAdmin

Confessions of a SysAdmin is a blog by and for primarily system administrators, but it may appeal to others of professional occupations, especially those in various IT related fields.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

  • LOPSA
  • system administration
  • the computer industry and trends
  • configuration management
  • security
  • change management
  • disaster recovery
  • communication and other professional skills
  • the blogosphere
  • whatever else comes to mind...

Long time no blog...

So, apparently trying that blogging thing didn't work so well in the last several months of chaos. So, I think we're back to a variation of the same question:

Why blog?

To Blog or Not To Blog

Is that really the question?

I've often wondered whether I should maintain a blog, or whether I should rely on others to write about the various topics I'm interested in. Recently I've decided that I should blog for a variety of reasons. Those reasons are...

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