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Don @ November 27, 2007 # No Comment Yet

Trying to determine the point in my life where I came to the fork, disliked my options, then made my own path. I’m very happy with my life; I do miss some of my friends however. Some more than others. I wish I got to spend more time with my parents over [...]

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Cricket at SoCoSA

Don @ November 19, 2007 # No Comment Yet

I gave my first presentation at the Sonoma County System Administrators this last month.  I think it went quite well.  I gave a short slide presentation, then did a live demo install/configure followed by a questions and answers section.
Cricket is a high performance, extremely flexible system for monitoring trends in time-series data. In other words: [...]

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Sonic’s email users

Don @ November 18, 2007 # No Comment Yet

So after sifting through our newsgroups, I came across an interesting post by one of our loyal customers.  Apparently, we have children as young as 2 years of age with email accounts!  I don’t know what to think about this.  :-/

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Trip to Oregon for Thanksgiving

Don @ November 15, 2007 # No Comment Yet

I’m going up to Oregon Monday after work for Thanksgiving week.  I am very much looking forward to finally spending time with my family and friends while not being so rushed.  I love life here, I enjoy the fast paced lifestyle, it keeps me quick on my feet; however I am very much looking forward [...]

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Paying TAX on $20,000

Don @ November 14, 2007 # No Comment Yet

So, I’m not in too great of a mood and I would recommend keeping your distance. Why? Because I’m an honest citizen who just seems to get the shaft for being so. I could have not registered my car here, left registration in Oregon and kept doing so until I couldn’t; however I [...]

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