The journey continues...

Brian Bilbrey May 10, 2014

Trip Report: LOPSA East 2014

As promised, if a few days later than expected, here is my trip report for LOPSA East 2014. For those who don't know, LOPSA is the acronym for the League of Professional System Administrators. LOPSA is the entity that emerged from an attempt by SAGE to gain independence from USENIX back in 2005. You can get more of the back story on the LOPSA history page (https://lopsa.org/about_history). Four years ago, PICC (the Professional IT Community Conference) was first held in New Jersey; it was organized by William Bilancio and Tom Limoncelli. I missed that one, but have attended ever since.

Brian Bilbrey May 4, 2014

LOPSA East 2014

The League of Professional Systems Administrators (LOPSA) puts on an east coast conference each Spring. We just finished up LOPSA East 2014 last night. An excellent two days of technical training, invited talks, and superb keynote speakers. I'd say that in terms of technical conferences, it's the best value for money around. You'll be hearing a lot more about that from me for the next couple of years. Why? It appears that I have volunteered to shadow the Program Chair next year, and be the Program Chair for LOPSA East 2016. Woo hoo! I'll have a better write-up on this…

Brian Bilbrey April 30, 2014

Rain, not purple.

In the last 30 hours, 3.25" of rain. Another inch or so due tonight, so lovely. This part of the world is waterlogged. Lexi *hates* going out in the wet, but all of life is worth taking another nap... Lexi ready to nap

Brian Bilbrey April 27, 2014

Nothing to see here

Then why post, might you ask? Well you might. But sometimes, "nothing" is good. For instance, I've nothing to report from DoD for the week past. That's good - no reported casualties. There's been no frost, so none of the veggies I've planted are dead. That's good. Also, I made the lawns flat this weekend, and got a bit of work done at the office on the virtualization infrastructure ... neither of which is "nothing". But lawns are boring, and by policy I can't discuss details of work. So ... pretty much nothing to see there. * * * Someone…

Brian Bilbrey April 24, 2014

53

Another birthday done. Whew. I "celebrated" by taking the day off, aka working in the garden: planting and fettling. It was a good day for working in the yard, about 15°C. Three quarters of the plants are in. Lots of tomatoes, some cucumber and zucchini, and habañero peppers. More peppers are needed, and potatoes need starting. The herbs are still pending in the small bed near the house. I got the watering system setup and running, and finished up by getting some bird discouragement netting over the snow peas and young cherry tomato plants. The birds have been slaughtering my…