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Travel has been an integral part of my life. Always on a journey from the time began working in IT. This has been a topic I have regularly returned to in posts here and elsewhere. Exploring the world developed into a lifelong passion for me. What hasn’t changed has been my pursuit too of my other passion, technology. These passions have become intertwined through the years to where separation may…
Sydney Harbor in leadup to Sydney to Hobart race of 2018 This time last year I wrote of how it will not be smooth sailing for all of us in IT. More specifically, for the Nonstop community, I ended that post by asking how you will respond to one more question; will you be setting a course that is true and away from treacherous currents that can be avoided? What I did reference though was how, for…
It’s time for your weekend read. And so much is happening for the Nonstop community that it’s worth considering how well Nonstop Compute offerings remain active participants in a technology world that is adapting to dramatic changes happening all around it – change never lets up but this year, we bear witness to much more than we have seen previously. Last year, Margo and I moved home. Not once…
It may surprise many to read that as a teenager growing up on Sydney’s North Shore, I was already into cars. I made models of Formula One cars – back then it was a Ferrari “sharknose” and a Porsche (yes, Porsche were an F1 constructor for a number of years) – and I built slot-car circuits. My favorite configuration was the Warwick Farm race track; a circuit in Sydney’s western suburbs that, today,…
Children play in the puddles at Bradfield Park in 1958. Credit: Bruce Adams Attending the HPE Nonstop Technology & Business Conference 2025 (Nonstop TBC25) had me doing a deep look back into the history of Connect and before then, to ITUG. This took me back so many years to Nice, France, in 1992 and to Orlando, Florida in 1993. My entire life within the Nonstop Community seems to have played out,…
Having served seafood from this house since 1889, Old Key Lime House; considered the oldest waterfront restaurant in Florida. Our travels in and around Florida continue. This week, our travels took us to Boca Raton via Tampa and for many in the Nonstop community, familiar sites came into view. Who can forget how many times SunTUG held events in the Marriott Tampa Westshore, near to some pretty…
One of my most treasured photos – Jimmy and me, at a not that long ago N2TUG gathering. Following my first attempts at blogging, back in August of 2007 – yes, some 18 years ago – around the time of the European ITUG Summit in Brighton, UK, it was a good friend of mine and former ITUG board member, Sam, who came up to me and said, “Slow down with the posts; you write faster than I can read!” Not a…
For those who have been reading my blog posts through the years perhaps a small celebration is due as this is post #650. Yes, at an average of 1500 words, it represents 975,000 words. Almost a million and if you tried to print it all out it would come to roughly 3250 pages. But enough of this. It may get more interesting of course if you add the number of posts to our social media,…
When this saying of Mark Twain popped up in my LinkedIn feed, I took it as a sign that this month’s post should feature commentary on the journey I took this month. It involved many miles, a conference, and opportunities to talk to well-placed industry experts. Time on the road is also an opportunity to escape routine and in so doing, provides ample time to simply observe what transpires around us…
Enjoying lunch in our new community, the lifestyle afforded by being in Florida and living alongside the Emerald Coast’s intracoastal waterway certainly has its upside. Having only recently taken up full time residence – yes, Margo and I are now in possession of our Florida driver’s licenses – we are beginning to come to terms with a lifestyle balanced equally between a vacation-like atmosphere…
On a sunny and oftentimes breezy Boxing Day in Sydney a gathered fleet of yachts makes a dash to the headlands of Sydney Harbor where, with just the right conditions (and from this photo and the set of the sails, that looks to be the situation), they will turn south and for as long as they can, these yachts will be on a reach, the wind coming from the north east. Navigators will be pouring over…
A long time ago, walking around the campus of Tandem Computers we would watch Lockheed P-3 Orion aircrafts returning from their mission of surveillance over the Pacific. One of our colleagues with a military background would explain all this and tested us with a question from time to time as another Orion flew past “and what is its mission?” Around that time, I was attending a Meta (now Gartner)…
As winter days became shorter, Margo and I found our way deeper into Florida. We drove up and down the Florida peninsula stopping by Orlando and then Ft Lauderdale. The temperatures climbed the further south we drove; this was expected. Overnighting in Orlando gave me an opportunity to capture the mood of central Florida in a series of happy-snaps on my mobile phone. The view from our hotel room…
No sun on the Rockies, not even the light of day I feel that old cabin fever coming on It won't be long before my ship comes in Gonna sail right out of Colorado Songwriters: Clint Patrick Black / James Hayden Nicholas I am a storyteller. As a storyteller, I am also an observer and as an observer I am yet to say that I have seen it all. Quite to the contrary, I am convinced that there is still much…
Off the wind on this heading lie the Marquesas. We got eighty feet of the waterline nicely making wake. A lot of attention is being given to sailing events. There is the solo race around the globe that sees participants now battling each other in the Pacific Ocean. However, for a Sydney boy such as I remain at heart, it is not just about sailing around the world but rather, taking on some serious…
It’s common knowledge within the NonStop community that Margo and I are building a new home. This time, it will not be in Colorado but rather, in Florida. Nothing political to report here as the catalyst for such a change of location has more to do with our health than anything else – heading to sea level is likewise almost as common knowledge as is the move itself. The home we are building in…
Sometimes, timing is everything. At other times, you just cannot rule out luck. Over the past couple of weeks Margo and I have really run up the miles. We drove from the Florida panhandle back to Colorado and then on to Monterey. After which, we drove the reverse route. All up, I seem to recall, we did more than five thousand miles over the course of four weeks or thereabouts. Regular readers will…
A post late last year following NonStop TBC 2023: “Wherever travel takes Margo and me, I often take photos at that location. A reminder of where we have been and a way to start conversations with family and friends.” With the upcoming NonStop Technical Boot Camp 2024 (NonStopTBC24) being a matter of only a few days away, travel continues to dominate the conversations at home. This year, we drove…
Nothing too surprising running across this sign other than thinking more about where it was placed. A pleasant enough location you would think but hiding a secret albeit wrapped in a little humor. Situated close to the Intracoastal Waterway along the Florida panhandle, it fronts a small dock in a marshy estuary tidal known to be frequented by Alligators. Having already overheard locals advising…
The photo may not be as clear as we both hoped. However, it’s still quite readable and serves a purpose. Snapped on the drive between Cedar City and St George in Utah as we continued on our drive down to Las Vegas for HPE Discover, 2024. Where the posted speed limit is 80 mph and where at that speed it is still hard to keep up with the trucks even as they travel just a little above the posted…
Yes, it’s spring time and even the big cats crave shade! However you want to classify it, there is no escaping the arrival of springtime along the front ranges of Colorado’s Rocky Mountains. The transition from deep winter to the delights of spring may happened over the course off just a few short weeks but no matter, the trees alongside our condo are putting on quite a show. They are also…
Contemplating a move to the other side of the country as we look to living by the coast, has given us an opportunity to catch up with what is happening across the home building landscape. In so doing, it’s so easy to gravitate to what’s trending and to ignore the practicality side of things. There is always the question too as to whether this or that trend has legs sufficient enough to overcome…
It was inevitable as it was obvious. An evening walk with my grandfather. He had spent the past fifty years working with technologies and, given as it was 2074, the technology changes he had witnessed could only be described as dramatic. Walking from his office I caught a glimpse of framed emails he had kept as artifacts from his earliest days in IT; a rare sighting by any measure. As a new hire…
If you have followed Margo and myself on LinkedIn or even on Facebook you would know all about our recent travels. And yes, also of travels yet to take place. The NonStop community is keeping us busy of late and it’s proving to be a welcome distraction to what we are in the middle of, as you might say. Moving; none of the glamor and all about the pain. It is not a unique situation we face, but one…
So much has been written about how difficult it is to predict the future. The topic is simply self-explanatory – the future is unpredictable and for many, attempting such a feat is tantamount to a total waste of time and effort. And yet, for as many years as I have been posting to this blog, going all the way back to 2008 and the post My Wish for NS Blades, simply contemplating what might be has…