Category Archives: Freestyle

200 posts

Started on 11/12/2010, this is my 200th blog post.  I postponed a year-end summary of 2013 as I switched domains and hosts in September, which threw off the stats.  Hi JetPack! In 2013 I averaged 304 views per day, with a … Continue reading

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New domain name – sostechblog.com

I’m in the process of migration off of the free wordpress.com site I use now on to sostechblog.com.  With any luck this will be completely transparent except for wordpress.com followers of the old site. As always, VMware/virtualization/NetApp/storage/computer questions/concerns/blog ideas are always … Continue reading

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Intellectual Property Infringement and takedowns

One of my minor tasks is to occasionally troll around the ‘net looking for people reselling certain Intellectual Property I am responsible for.  I only hit the main sites that resell books and apps as sites the offenders set up … Continue reading

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LinkedIn 200 million members – top 5% viewed

This just popped into my inbox: Congratulations! You have one of the top 5% most viewed LinkedIn profiles for 2012. LinkedIn now has 200 million members. Thanks for playing a unique part in our community! So does this mean my … Continue reading

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Free Photoshop training coming up

Creative Live has a full week of Photoshop training coming up. As will all of CL’s classes, they are free to view live but you have to pay to download or watch the training after the event. “6 Days, 12 … Continue reading

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2012 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 19,000 people fit into the new Barclays Center to see Jay-Z perform. This blog was viewed about 76,000 times in 2012. If it were … Continue reading

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2011 in review (ok a few days late – just in time to celebrate my 19,000th hit)

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 18,000 times in 2011. If it were a … Continue reading

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Best Practices for all Occasions (incl vSphere 5)

VMware has published several “Best Practices” guides for vSphere5 so I thought I’d collect many of them (see below) as well as add my own summary/best practice guide. This has lots of VMware-specific entries but the essence can apply to … Continue reading

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Twitter

I’ve joined the twit revolution – follow me @sostech_wp

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Drafted

Ok this one has nothing directly to do with technology, but I was asked recently to make up a draft notice and was supplied with an jpg image that had been found on the Internet. Here’s the Wiki entry on … Continue reading

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