Last year I was fortunate to be invited to the 2014 WordPress Community Summit and this year in Philadelphia I’m going again. Tomorrow morning Lily and I will wake up around 4 AM. She’ll drive me to the train station where I’ll take a 5 AM train to Penn Station. From there it’s an Amtrak ride […]
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Sometimes when things go wrong at work they still go right. Two Friday nights ago I was at the office till about 11 PM working on some infrastructure. Originally the scope was for 2 devices but that was expanded to cover 4 devices instead. After notifying different groups I started at 5 pm. Naturally I […]
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Ice cream anyone?
At work I had offered months ago to walk over to Carvel on 2nd Avenue between 24th and 23rd streets. This was in return for the help I had gotten from the NOC. It was turning into an on going joke and today when I was reminded about it I said “It’s not too cold, […]
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What, you don’t say hello anymore?
Sunday morning I had to be in New Jersey before 3 AM to work on powering up the data center there. The company tries to power down it’s data centers once a year to make sure that BCP and DR works. I got there at 1:30 AM which was okay since we got the building […]
Today was an odd day. Not bad exactly, but definitely odd. I went to work for a scheduled systems upgrade. Lily and the kids went to Central Park and after work we met in Chinatown. When we returned to Long Island we found my front passenger window was broken and my GPS unit stolen. Now […]
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One day limo driver
This morning Lily was going to head to LaGuardia airport and catch a plane to Detroit. I was going to head to the office at my regular time and put in a fully productive day at the office. The person who was going to pick her up forgot. I ended up getting dressed in record […]
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DNS excitement! Panic at the office!
Well not really panic, just your usual vulnerability patching day at the office. When I saw Dan Kaminsky demonstrate voice over DNS, I was convinced that he dreams in BIND source code. It was a neat demonstration. Now he has uncovered another vulnerability in BIND regarding UDP source port prediction. It’s causing some excitement in […]
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Working on Saturday
It doesn’t happen to me often, but this is what it looks like when I work on a Saturday. Non-stop being on conference calls. It’s not bad, just I have a lot to do today.
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Looks like no Amtrak strike
I heard on 1010 WINS this morning that a tentative agreement between 9 unions and Amtrak was going to be announced today. That’s a relief as both Lily and I both take the LIRR to Penn Station get to work. It would have been a pain for us to get to work, likely we’d have […]
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Chuck Prince is resigning
Lily subscribes to the Wall Street Journal and today there is an article online that reads “Citigroup CEO Plans to Resign As Losses Grow”. That was not hard to see coming. The article shows that the stock price is currently at $37.73. Last year when I worked at Citigroup the conversation was if it would […]