Author: Scott Moonen

Minecraft

At Christmas the kids caught the Minecraft bug from their cousins. They pooled their birthday and chore money and bought it. They’ve been enjoying tinkering around with it, together with the help of some books we reserved at the library. Today I installed Ubuntu on the old Windows XP laptop, and voila! We have a dedicated Minecraft computer now.

Defect

defect

Root cause: powdery snow
Resolution: usage error

Concerning intermittent things, I am still tickled by the old Microsoft Word tip of the day, “Things that go away by themselves can come back by themselves.”

Concerning intermitten things, it seems prudent to assume that things that go away at great speed can come back at great speed.

Work

I was amused to find this in my fortune cookie last night.

For most of the last thirteen years, I have worked on IBM’s z/OS Communications Server mainframe networking product. Over the last two years I have still reported to Comm Server management but have been on loan to other IBM product areas as part of helping to lend our networking, security and high-availability expertise. I’ve only had three managers in the last thirteen years, which I think is fairly unusual.

But now I’m making the move to the IBM PureApplication System organization, where I have been working for the past year. You can think of it as “cloud in a box” (although this is both a little inapt and also oversimplified).

I’ll miss working with all of the wonderful folks in Comm Server. But I’m looking forward to wrestling with a new challenge.