I’ve had a bunch of tabs open in my browser for a while - stuff that I read, thought was wonderful, and wanted to comment on. At risk of letting it pile up forever, here’s a collection of links that I thought were really interesting or insightful…

• MongoDB is …

I just read a wondeful blog post by Adam Fletcher, What Does A Sysadmin Look Like In 10 Years?. This almost totally describes what I see as the future of system administors/engineers/architects, and DevOps. And what I try, or want, to do. It’s the most accurate and …

Thanks to some new interest, I’ve decided to resurrect an old project of mine, PHP EMS Tools. It’s a web-based tool for small emergency services organizations, mainly aimed at volunteer EMS/ambulance providers. The tool handles roster tracking, scheduling, equipment maintenance and checks, and a bunch of other …

In a follow-up to my Some Thoughts on Choosing a New Wordpress Theme post from a few days ago, I decided on the Admired theme by Brad Thomas. It’s amazingly full-featured and has a good set of options. I had to manually change a few things in the CSS …

I haven’t talked about Microsoft in quite a while (mainly because I don’t follow mainstream tech news as much anymore), but I happened by a very interesting post on the Windows Azure blog the other day. It’s a very detailed postmortem of the major outage of the …

I think I’m going to choose a new theme for my blog. The current theme is iNove (albeit an older version with some custom modifications), and I feel like it looks a bit messy and has gotten a bit cluttered, so it’s time to find something new. I …

I use Google Analytics for visitor stats on this blog. Not because I’m trying to direct-market to my readers or become Big Brother, but for a number of simple reasons:

• It’s simple - no software for me to update, and nothing that needs to run on my server and …

My wife Jackie (Syrilia) is an avid World of Warcraft player (it’s a MMORPG with over 10 million players). They have weekly server maintenance/update windows every Tuesday morning - total downtime. The length is never really fixed, so I looked around to see if there was a logical way …

Two interesting presentations - which, unfortunately, I only heard the audio for (they came up in my podcast playlist during my commute today).

For the non-techie-geeks out there, All Your Brains Suck - Known Bugs And Exploits In Wetware: OSCON 2011 - O’Reilly Conferences, July 25 - 29, 2011, Portland, OR is an …

Well, good news about SOPA. All of my sites participated in the SOPA Strike. While I didn’t fully black everything out (I guess I wasn’t keeping up enough on what others were doing…), I displayed a full-screen popover with a message (I have a version of my homepage …