The LTB.log

For those less interested in itinerary management, but who are interested in the social networking / travel coordinating component of TripIt, a self-described luddite friend later directed me to Dopplr, another web resource that ignores the finer details of your itinerary and instead focuses simply on where you’ll be, when, and who you know that might also be there. … In point of fact, it’s time for me to run upstairs and pack for my trip to Fort Lauderdale this week (you can find details at Tripit, Dopplr, and WMLive if you also plan to be in the area), so I hope you found at least one of the above resources to be interesting if not useful, and maybe I’ll see you in one of the myriad destinations I have planned for this year and next!

Traveling a lot generally means eating out a lot, and I’ve managed to hone a few techniques to both reduce my dining expenditures and generate occasional rewards. … The kicker here is that there are several restaurants within major cities that are members of both RewardsNetwork and OpenTable , which means you can get as much as %20 cash back for dining, plus as many as 1,000 points for making a reservation, which essentially translates into %20 of your total bill plus $10 towards future meal purchases.

Believe that a power greater than yourself exists and is necessary to identify and eliminate malware, botnets, and the Windows hosts that contain them…. Seek through prayer, meditation and continuing malware research to improve your understanding of the growing malware threat as we know it.

Incredibly cool; I’m incredibly jealous.

While I’ve long debated the real value of professional certifications in the IT industry, it would be ignorant to refute the hard data that demonstrates the perceived value of certification, and the resulting remuneration benefits.

I’m off to Anchorage, Alaska tomorrow to teach a VMware VI3 class, and am actually quite giddy about it. Alaska remains one of the few place in the US that I haven’t yet visited and still want to.

Ubuntu instead of, and in addition to, Mac OS X on a MacBook ProWhen I first bought my MacBook Pro, I bought it with the intention of dual-booting into Ubuntu to run VMware Server so that I could run VMware ESX inside of a virtual Machine. Shortly thereafter, VMware Fusion was released, rendering my original intent academic.

On Saturday, September 15, 2007, Beth and I had to make a decision to euthanize our beloved dog, Cain, whose cancer had finally taken the wag from her tail.

Beginning next week KnowThreat will be offering VMware VI3 Training, on behalf of VMware, Inc. To celebrate the announcement, I thought I’d post this quick walkthrough detailing my process for building an installing a full VMware Virtual Infrastructure environment using ESX 3 and VC 2 within virtual machines in VMware Fusion Beta on Mac OS X 10.4.10…. Further, with VMware Fusion’s new “Unity” feature, I can run the VI Client alongside all of my other OS X applications as if it were natively built for the Mac!

Seems I spaced out, somehow thinking Roger Waters was tomorrow night. An urgent txt message from Beth set me straight. I am absolutely elated about going to this show. Saw Floyd (w/o Waters) in ‘94 and then caught Roger Waters at Lakewood in ‘99. Both were excellent shows, though I think Waters’s voice has withstood [...]