Letter From An Occupant

What the last ten minutes have taught me:

Bet the hand that your money's on

"Letter From An Occupant", The New Pornographers

Attended my first BOF last night on wikis for sysadmin documentation -- amazingly fun and informative. I even managed to contribute to the conversation. And when I told the war story about recovering my wiki from spammers (that's right! because PHPWiki sucks!) I got a gratifying look of sympathy from the audience.

Today's talk was "Habits of Highly Effective Sysadmins". It was aimed at folks like me who've been mostly self-taught, and I thought they hit the mark extremely well. (I've heard lots of people here say that they'll go see anything put on by Lee Damon or Mike Ciavarella just on principal (principle?).) Very, very informative and great teachers, too.

I found out today that Tom Limoncelli's name is pronounced "li-mon-sell-ee", not "li-mon-chell-ee". W/luck, this will save me embarassment later.

Tonight the BOFs start in earnest, including the one that offers free beer and ice cream. Sadly, I will be attending the one on pet counting instead. I will die a little bit inside.