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		<title>And suddenly&#8230;(redux)</title>
		<link>http://blog.50micron.com/2011/05/06/and-suddenly-redux/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.50micron.com/2011/05/06/and-suddenly-redux/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 May 2011 01:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consulting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Employement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gripe]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.50micron.com/?p=733</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[**ALERT** I&#8217;ve had to&#8230;modify this post so it won&#8217;t offend someone who doesn&#8217;t realize that the storage community is very small and that word will get out regardless&#8230; I&#8217;m unemployed. Unexpectedly too.  Unexpected because right up until the day they told me to go home because I wasn&#8217;t getting paid, everyone assured me that the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Engineering&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.50micron.com/2010/09/14/engineering/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.50micron.com/2010/09/14/engineering/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 07:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gripe]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.50micron.com/?p=659</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have seen the future of data storage and I weep for it. A few random rants at 2am after a data migration didn&#8217;t go because I&#8217;m not willing to kill a backup process that has a hold of my mount-point. &#8212;- Engineering seems to be a thing of the past.  We&#8217;ve graduated to the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Consulting vs. Contracting&#8230;.  A primer&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://blog.50micron.com/2009/11/04/consulting-vs-contracting-a-primer/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.50micron.com/2009/11/04/consulting-vs-contracting-a-primer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Best Practices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gripe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.50micron.com/?p=583</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok, I can say it in a sentence. A contractor is someone you hire to do a job, a consultant is someone you hire to fix a problem. I&#8217;ve done both, but in the last 8 years I&#8217;ve been primarily a &#8220;Consultant.&#8221;  My job is to fix whatever perceived problem. Some companies might have a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Backup Vs. Archive</title>
		<link>http://blog.50micron.com/2009/09/15/backup-vs-archive/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.50micron.com/2009/09/15/backup-vs-archive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:32:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA["Cloud"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Archive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Backup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Best Practices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Centerra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deduplciation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gripe]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.50micron.com/?p=566</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The fundamental difference between BACKUP and ARCHIVE. A backup is there to help you deal with a crisis such as &#8220;My datacenter is a smoking hole in the ground now what do I do?&#8221; or something not quite as dramatic like &#8220;A virus ate my data.&#8221;  You recover from the backup to the last known [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Would you like a sign-on bonus with that sir?</title>
		<link>http://blog.50micron.com/2009/05/12/would-you-like-a-sign-on-bonus-with-that-sir/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.50micron.com/2009/05/12/would-you-like-a-sign-on-bonus-with-that-sir/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 21:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gripe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Job Market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recruiting]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.50micron.com/?p=496</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently put a very terse email together to a recruiter.  These people have been sending me 3-5 emails PER WEEK on a position that is almost completely foreign to &#8220;Data Storage&#8221;  (Well, it does involve data&#8230;but that&#8217;s it about as close as it gets.) Recruiting is another place where supposedly technical work is going [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>I remember the good old days&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://blog.50micron.com/2009/03/17/i-remember-the-good-old-days/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.50micron.com/2009/03/17/i-remember-the-good-old-days/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:29:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Downtime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EMC Failures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gripe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LackOfCustomerService]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SRDF]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Support-Calls]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.50micron.com/?p=478</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When the triage guys @ EMC actually listened to the person calling in the problem and directed the call appropriately. (Just had one I specifically asked for PSE and they routed me to software for some unknown reason, now, three hours later, it&#8217;s been re-routed to PSE) When the support specialist working a call would [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ok, ok.  Not my brightest moment&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.50micron.com/2008/10/07/ok-ok-not-my-brightest-moment/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.50micron.com/2008/10/07/ok-ok-not-my-brightest-moment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:32:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gripe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Non-Storage]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.50micron.com/?p=334</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Not storage, but business related none-the-less: Yes, I&#8217;m sure most of you have seen it, and yes, it&#8217;s me.  I will say that the reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated.  (Spell check says that&#8217;s right, but it doesn&#8217;t look right to me) Where you shop may hit your credit &#8211; MSNBC.COM For those of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Comcast -</title>
		<link>http://blog.50micron.com/2007/04/30/comcast/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.50micron.com/2007/04/30/comcast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 03:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comcast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gripe]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sangod.com/?p=131</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[They&#8217;re getting their last chance.Â  Morons took me down with their last config fix by re-enabling the blocking of port-80 when they uploaded the most recent &#8220;cure-all&#8221; config to the modem. Mental note:Â  If anyone ever tries to hand you an SMC 8013 or SMC8014 cable modem, run, don&#8217;t walk, in the opposite direction.Â  They [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Fake Synchronous SAN</title>
		<link>http://blog.50micron.com/2007/02/06/82/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.50micron.com/2007/02/06/82/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2007 08:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DR/COOP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gripe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Replication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Switches]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sangod.com/?p=82</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In response to this article on &#8220;EnterpriseStorageForum&#8221;: Â SynchronousÂ SAN Sets Fibre Channel Distance Record My Response: True Synchronous transmission works over any distance &#8211; if you can live with the latency.Â Â  The problem is that most hosts operating systems can&#8217;t.Â  So different buffering schemes are cooked up to fool the host into thinking the write is [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Microsoft Bribing Bloggers?</title>
		<link>http://blog.50micron.com/2006/12/29/microsoft-bribing-bloggers/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.50micron.com/2006/12/29/microsoft-bribing-bloggers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Dec 2006 01:44:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gripe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microsuck]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I had posted a few nice words about Vista, but I deleted them when I found out that Microsoft has been bribing Bloggers with Brand new $2,300 Acer Ferrari laptops. Where&#8217;s mine? The article, on E-Week.com says that at least 7 bloggers have confessed that the nice things they&#8217;ve said about vista came after they [...]]]></description>
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