I have been blogging here for about a week and am already moving.

That's right, moving! The new address is http://itkaos.blogspot.com.

The blogger system just seems to be more flexible and a geared a bit more towards customization.

I have moved all of the content over so take a look.

I will not be posting here any longer, all of the new stuff will be on the new blog.

Well I am listening to the tech chat from Saturday as I type. My first impression, 'Do I really sound like that?' I suppose that is the normal reaction to the first time you listening to yourself in a manner like this.

Beyond that I think that the Chat was really great. I got a lot out of it. After hearing form the others I think  that they did as well.

I need to get a lot more information from these guys about how they are using the batch files that they have developed. Seems like a great way to get things done. I am sure that I can find some ways to use these outside of SMS.

I am also working on some other ideas for future tech chats (as well as blog posts) that I think could be very helpful to others and could be interesting to talk about.

These type of things, as well as blogs, I think will turn out to be very helpful to me. I can make Peer contacts, learn a lot, vent some of my issues, and hopefully teach others something.

Tonight (at around 9:00 PM EST) I will be participating in a tech chat with Kevin Devin, Mike McBride, and Eric Maynard. We will be talking about prepping systems, standardized machines, supporting dis-similar machines, etc.

If you would like to listen, go to http://www.kevindevin.com sometime next week.

Let me know what you think.

Having children is wonderful, most of the time. Yesterday was one of those days that was very difficult.

I had to work late and missed dinner. My son had been a real pain ALL day (including at school). When I finally did get home my son was in the bath. My wife and I were chatting in his playroom and cleaning some things up. I walk into the bathroom to check on him and what do I find. EVERY surface if the enitre bathroom is soaked. The floor, the walls, the door, the mirror, EVERYTHING!

Now this is not the first time. We have had episodes when he has splashed around and gotten the floor wet, but this went WAY past that. This was entirely on purpose. Entirely to test my wife and I.

Now I know that he is just being 4, but this is crazy. He is at that point where he just refuses to listen to anything. I really hope it is just a phase. But perhaps it is the Only Child syndrome.

Just had to vent.

After years of deailing with this piece of Crap, tomorrow I will finally be getting rid of the last NT server that is in my company. This one last server will be taken off line and replaced with a new machine running 2K3. Man that will be nice.

My environment will now be Win 2K and 2K3 servers and 1 Red Hat box.

I took over this position about 1 1/2 years ago and have been struggling with the network layout ever since. With this final move I will be able to resolve some of the final issues that are out there. It is very nice to have a system that is almost ALL me. Its like another child. I know every inch of this system and have even more great plans for it.

I will keep you informed as we go.

I work for a good sized real estate firm as their IT Manager. As I fondly tell new agents, I am responsible for everything that plugs into the wall, computers, phones, printers, electric staplers, etc. I have one person that reports to me. So 2 people to take care of a total of 500 people (not 500 machines).

Well as such I tend to rely on a consulting company to do some research, help out in a pinch and assist in some larger projects. A month or so ago they came to me with a new service that they wree providing, a CTO analysis and report. I thought, Great, this will help me find issues I am overlooking, give me some suggestions on taking care of some issues and give ma little ammunition with the higher ups.

Well after several hours of meetings, tours and the like I finally got the report. WHAT A LOAD OF CRAP. It was just 10 pages of restatement of all the issues I told them about. There was nothing new in there, no legitimate recommendations, nothing!

I talked to them about it and it is being re-written to include more detail and recommendations, but I should not have had to go thru that.

Moral of the story, get a very clear understanding, AHEAD OF TIME, of exactly what is expected from both parties when using a consultant.  I am sure that there are a lot of people that aready know this, I thought it was worth restating it.

Well, here is the obligatory first post.

I hope to post here often and share some insight into me, my work, my family, etc.