US Death Toll Continues to Rise Car accidents are one of the leading causes of death in the US, causing over 100 fatalities daily. In 2007 alone more than 43,100 deaths resulted from 10.6 million traffic accidents. For every 100 licensed teenagers between the ages of 16 and 19, there will be 21 traffic accidents, […]
Read more "Get Your Head Out of Your App"August 27, 2016, NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured stunning images of Jupiter’s north pole. According to NASA, the images were taken from 2,500 miles above Jupiter’s clouds, during the first of 36 flybys Juno will make around the planet. “First glimpse of Jupiter’s north pole, and it looks like nothing we have seen or imagined before,” said Scott Bolton, principal […]
Read more "Juno Spacecraft Captures Stunning Image of Jupiter’s North Pole"Better Integration with existing Technology With rumors about the Apple iPhone 7 spreading, Apple is said to announce on September 7, the new iPhone will be ditching the head phone jack (Eadicicco, 2016). As long as they continue to produce phones with the lightning jack that’ fine by me. However, the iPhone is not the best […]
Read more "Why the iPhone is Not the Best SmartPhone"It was January of 2009, and I was looking for a job. My sister worked for this particular company and could help me get an interview for an entry-level position in the billing department at a Revenue Cycle Management company. Luckily, it paid off, and I interviewed with the EVP of Billing Operations. This person […]
Read more "The Early Days: Part III"My company just purchased an 8-pack On Demand port activation for two Cisco MDS 9124 SAN Fiber channel switches. We are currently adding additional VMware hosts with dual-port HBAs. Each host will be single connected to each fiber channel switch. In the future we might add additional HBAs so that each host is dual connected […]
Read more "Cisco On Demand Port Activation License Fiber Channel Switch MDS 9124"The government took down Napster, but there were still BitTorrents like Kazaa. Man, that site was my best friend. Not literally, but it was the first time I downloaded a Muse song. This was in like 2002 or early 2003. Download speeds were like 1.5 Mbps, and it would still take like 5 minutes to […]
Read more "The Early Days: Part II"The Beginning The story of how Brian the IT guy (as I’m known around the office because, still to this day, no one really knows what I do) is probably not unlike most beginning stories of people who work in most IT departments. I really liked computers as a kid because I was around them […]
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All Systems (Are) Go. 