Lori MacVittie

Options, Options. A Geek Kid Has Them. Fair warning, my Friday posts are lighter, and will continue to be as long as I think I’m funny. If you’re here for work, move along, nothing to see here. When you’re a child of a geek family, if you show signs of interest in technology the jokes start going around about job offers. Lori and I’s mothers both programmed – mine with punch cards, hers in COBOL – we are both programmer/network/gaming geeks, so of course our kids get “job offers”. At 12, Korey was mastering Visual Basic, and we were meeting with Novell. Someone from Novell... posted @ Thursday, March 05, 2009 10:41 PM | Feedback (3)

F5 Paparazzi Today, Lori was arrested for the March of Dimes Jail-and-Bail, and I, acting as your friendly local Paparazzi, followed along to get some surprise pictures. The first problem was that they came in a white unmarked car. This confused me, couldn't they at least find a Black Maria (common KGB vehicle) to pick her up? This is the point at which I realized that this was big news, our Lori going to Jail! So I packed up the baby and followed them in.   And can you believe it, she even used the child as an excuse... posted @ Thursday, October 02, 2008 5:49 PM | Feedback (0)

What's in a Cloud Anyway? There's a lot of talk about Cloud Computing, how The Cloud is different than The Grid, and what the risk assessment for The Cloud is. What people aren't talking about is something that all AppDev folks need to know... How does it impact them. Frankly, if my app must be developed differently to take advantage of The Cloud, then frankly, Cloud Computing has already failed. That's why there's not a Grid in every enterprise. But Teh Cloud is new and kewl, Teh Grid is full of fail, right? The other thing that architects have to care about is "who has... posted @ Monday, September 29, 2008 1:06 PM | Feedback (2)