Monday, November 29, 2004

I can't help but think and wonder how I got anything done just five years ago.  Yes we had communication tools but I really don't think that broadband was really here as of yet and if it was I didn't have it yet, I can't remember anyway but the point I going to make tonight is that this is really the best of times for the work that we do.  I am not talking about end user software or XP or Linux or Netware or anything else of that sort.  What I am talking about is our ability to monitor and manipulate systems from anywhere at anytime.  Right this minute I am in three different systems.  "Washing" files in one, running backups in another, and running a system wide virus scan in another.  Alll three different systems being manipulated by me, remotely, and accomplishing multiple tasks at the same time.  Did someone say simultaneity?  Am I master of my domain, no I am master of four domains right now, the least bit being CIS.  I looked at event viewers tonight, read email, read virus alerts, move files from one spot to another to protect them from someone, backed up files to tape and to a storage array then took those files and sent the most important ones across the country to a holding bank so that someone else could look at them tommorrow and let me know if they found any problems.  Meanwhile all this time I am blogging just a bit as well.  How cool is all this.  No matter how I progressed in the business world or whatever becomes of my "educational career" I will always remain a geek at heart.  I have lost some of the sharpness I used to posess but for the most part, after I catch up on my quartely reading, I still understand most of the new and more complex ideas.  This is a great time to be a machine nut.  While software and operating systems will always lag behind, since software is hard and hardware is easy, the real fun in in making it all work.  I am getting a bit bored with my day to day of meetings and placation adventures.  I am growing tired of making sure that everyone gets thanked even when then haven't had a thing to do with anything that mattered.  I know it hits me every few years or so but I can't help it.  Maybe after the holidays are over I can get back into the swing of things.  Lets hope so.  Till next post. 8:04:08 PM    comment []

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