The other day, I posted some thoughts capturing a conversation that happened in the illumos community over the weekend. If you missed it, head over first to http://opusmagnus.wordpress.com/2014/09/28/the-illumos-number-that-bothers-me-and-what-we-…

I just got back late last night from http://surge.omniti.com/2014 and http://surge.omniti.com/2014/illumos-day, which immediately followed Surge the next day. There were some great talks going on, which I’m sure I’ll also be writing about. But the…

“We’re using a modified Kanban process.”

I’d been neglecting opportunities to work in my homelab for awhile so that I might take advantage of a bit of a creative streak and shoot some photography. That’s probably been satisfied, for a little while anyway, so I’ve spent much of this long …

I opened up a preview of the https://opusmagnus.wordpress.com/book-list/ that I’d promised earlier. It’s still super thin, but there are a few solid titles in there.

I’m not dead. :) Though I have been blogging a little for http://eng.bronto.com.

My latest contribution to the Bronto Engineering Blog is about a talk that John Willis delivered to Triangle DevOps on Software Defined Networking.

I’ve not been a generous blogger, and for that I apologize.

I’m blogging for Bronto now. Here’s my first published article for them.

Yesterday was my last day at Red Hat. I wasn’t there for long. It was really very bittersweet to leave. I loved the company, I loved the corporate culture. But I felt the greatest constraint on my success there (and the success of the mission for …

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