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K-12 Superintendent, reformed IT guy, educator, 1:1 evangelist, life long learner, father, husband, geek, ex self-propelled field artillery turret mechanic, GCT, CCTO, INFP

Month: August 2013

  • Post Power Outage Reflection

    Power went out at the District Office (DO) today at around 5:30pm. The outage affected a large area of our community. With only 25 minutes of backup battery time on our servers, we only had a few minutes to shutdown everything. At least we had that time. No, we don’t have automated shutdown scripts in…

  • High Availability (HA) Big Iron Of My Very Own

    Found this today while I was doing some folder clean up. To think I used to be responsible for all this big iron, with a duplicate setup for development and staging too. These were the first SQL Clusters, SANs, Load Balancers and PIX firewalls of my very own. Oh, the good old days…

  • I Love Google Hangouts

    Have I said this before? Hangouts make hanging out so easy and the ability to record conversations for posterity is awesome! Mike Vollmert and I had a great rambling discussion about the elephant in the room – the need the change Professional Development to meet the changing instructional paradigms in a 1:1 world. We also…