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Writing Challenge Day 10: What Day is It?
We’ve all experienced the feeling of staring into the distance, while your mind is busy processing, working out which day of the week it is. I’ve spoken to several friends and, other than one clearly more switched-on person in my social group, all admit to this being a weekly if not thrice weekly event. You know those…
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Writing Challenge Day 11: Connecting With My Community
We spend so much of our lives building and participating in communities (like this one). We choose where we want to live. We choose which friends and family members we keep in touch with. For many of us, the culture and the people are primary factors in where we choose to work. After all, we spend as much time with our…
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Writing Challenge Day 7: Separation Anxiety
In July, when we were all preparing for a second spike of COVID-19, I—like many other folks who live alone—decided I wouldn’t (couldn’t) go back into shelter-in-place alone. I had limited options, given I have no patience, space, or desire for a roommate and—no matter how funny that Match.com commercial is—ya girl refuses…
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Writing Challenge Day 4: I Was Today Years Old When I Learned...
I was less than a year old when I learned how to eat. I was eight years old when I learned I loved baseball. I was nine years old when I learned about losing a parent. I was 15 years old when I learned to drive. I was 19 years old when I learned about love. I was 25 years old when I learned about love’s heartbreak. I was…
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2021: The Year We May Be Able to Predict
Although our Head Geek @adatole may have attempted to predict 2020 last year, no one could’ve prepared us for what was to come. Today as we work from various remote spaces including our living rooms, kitchens, bedrooms, or any room where we can find a good Wi-Fi signal, it’s hard to think of what our situation will look…
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Writing Challenge Day 6: Easy Home IT Upgrades
So, working from home and the web meeting crashes, eh? There’s an easy formula: AVAILABLE BANDWIDTH = Actual Bandwidth / (Gaming console + Netflix + Spotify + IoT Phone Home + Zoom/Webex/Teams + Aquarium livestream for the cat) If that’s a negative outcome, poor you. But don’t give up yet! You can always ask your ISP for a…
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SupportWorld Live Goes Virtual! A Recap and Lessons Learned
Conferences, while a lot of work, are such a fun outlet to connect with other people in the IT community. It’s an opportunity to learn about new technologies, trends, and gain new perspectives around the industry. Some of my favorite memories of past conferences stem from the exhibit hall passport games and morning coffee…
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Writing Challenge Day 5: Tonight in Pandemic Viewing
Tonight in Pandemic Viewing Escaping into all available streaming services is, if not a universal response to the current state of affairs, definitely a widespread one. According to Hub Research, 28% of consumers added a streaming service since February, and Disney+ hit its five-year subscriber goal already this year.…
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Geekly World News - December 2020
Whew! It’s been a year. We’re in the home stretch now. November saw us host THWACKcamp and those of us in the U.S. celebrated Thanksgiving. This is a time to reflect on the year and while it’s been particularly bad in some ways, we find we still have much to be thankful for. One thing we’re thankful for is this wonderful…
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Start Your DevOps Journey by Looking at the Value You Add
Starting with DevOps can be hard. Often, it's not entirely clear why you're getting on the DevOps train. Sometimes, it's simply because it's the new trendy thing to do. For some, it's to minimize the friction between the traditional IT department (“Ops”) and developers building custom applications (“Dev”). Hopefully, it…