Not too many photos this time, so they are all posted here. Please visit my Flickr Photostream or skip directly to the slideshow for my latest photos. To view larger versions on Flickr, just click an image. As always, these photos are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution, Non-Commercial, Share Alike (BY-NC-SA) license.

Our second Farmers’ Market of the 2012 season, and another great crowd. This time, I got some wonderful photos of the talented Brocal Chords vocal group performing on the street corner. I was also able to capture several couples strolling the market. As always, please visit my Flickr Set for more photos (there are 19 [...]

The 2012 Des Moines Farmers’ Market kicked off with a very large crowd this season, despite the humidity hanging in the air. As always, please feel free to skip to the Photo Set on Flickr, or the Slideshow, or click on any image to go directly to it on Flickr. Also keep in mind that [...]

The Setup A client called in with an interesting problem. They had recently performed a planned outage due to a power issue at their premises, but upon powering everything back up one of their hosts was unable to access the iSCSI SAN volumes. Fortunately, they were able to bring up all of the VMs on [...]

I just got through changing almost all of my 1200+ photos on Flickr from an all rights reserved license (the default) to the CC BY-NC-SA license. That is, Attribution (BY), Non-Commercial (NC), and Share Alike (SA). Breaking that down, this quite simply means: Attribution: If you use my work, you must attribute it to me. [...]

Agenda: 3PM: Check-in, Welcome, Facilities 3:05: VMUG Video 3:15: Fusion-io preso 3:50: Break 3:55 VMware vShield Security preso – Karl Fultz, VMware SE 4:40: Open Discussion 4:55: Drawings 5:00: Break 5:15: Social networking at Buffalo Wild Wings My Notes: VMUG Video VMware Paul Strong, CTO, Global Customer and Field Initiatives, VMware vCloud Community, 8 Certified [...]

The Setup I recently purchased three albums from iTunes. After downloading them, syncing them to my iPod, and listening through them I was happy. While driving the next day, I thought I’d shuffle through the playlist I had created with the new tracks. I quickly discovered that all the tracks on one of the albums [...]

Took a couple of hours to walk around downtown Des Moines, IA this weekend along with some other fellow photographers. Unfortunately, I showed up late and had to leave a little early so I did not get to socialize very much. Also, I must have taken off in a different directly than the bulk of [...]

What Is It? Iometer started life as a utility built by Intel to generate and measure i/o loads. It was released by them under the Intel Open Source License. The date this happened isn’t clear from their Web site, but the project was first registered on SourceForge in November 2001. Get the Software You can [...]