What Is Vendor Lock-in?

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After weeks of searching, you finally found it .. the killer application that adapts to your business perfectly and requires a minimal initial investment in the form of a license fee. You can’t wait to seal the deal, your job is about to become infinitely easier because support will be handled by the vendor. The [...]

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How To Get Out Of Talking

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It happens to all of us. Sooner or later, you will be forced to compose audible grunts into meaningful sequences and transmit them over the slower than snail speed of sound. Additionally, you must block until receiving an ACK over the same medium, often requesting even more transformation of thoughts into similar mutually understood grunts. [...]

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Crap. I’m Growing Man Boobs!

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McDonalds: its been real, its been fun, but I think we need to see other people. I “lightly” pulled a muscle in my chest today while averting a fall due to not watching where I was going. A little while ago, I was rubbing the sore spot and noticed something I had not noticed before [...]

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I’ll Leave The Clouds To The Birds

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Today marks the third time in one year that I’ve been bitten by someone else’s mistake. I’ve tried several `accounting as a service’ providers and should have learned my lesson after the first bad experience. I appreciate dynamic infrastructure as a service as much as the next person. I love using tools like Xen to [...]

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Broken Towels

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I try to be tolerant, patient and understanding. I try, very very hard to not let trivial and mundane set backs influence the quality of my over all mood. Today, I have failed. When you purchase something, you have a reasonable expectation that the item will work as advertised. This gets a little sketchy when [...]

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‘Crumby’ Engineering Shuts Down The LHC (Again)

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The truth is, indeed, stranger than fiction. In case you did not know, the LHC was shut down again, this time due to a passing bird dropping a bread crumb into some of its external (exposed) machinery. Insert your favorite AHEM.. here. This caused a spike that produced so much heat that the collider’s fail [...]

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Self Realization

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I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates who said .. “I DRANK WHAT??!!” +1 If you can tell me what movie that was from. The wiki link is provided as a public service for the terminally uncultured (or miscultured, depending on if you consider that a word).

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Salmonella

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I have finally recovered from a really, really bad case of salmonella food poisioning. I can truthfully say, the experience was by far the worst experience of my life. I had lunch with my wife in what seemed to be a very nice Italian restaraunt. I had a steak with some kind of mushroom cream [...]

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