Recently, the boys that run The Pirate Bay, the most infamous of the bit torrent trackers out there, were found guilty of copyright infringement. It is possible they will be spending some time in jail and paying a fine of around three million. I'm sure the RIAA and the MPAA and whomever else thinks this is a major victory but it really isn't and I will give you my personal reason why.

It appears that the end is near for Windows XP. Next week Microsoft is ending its support of the most popular of its operating systems. April 14th marks the end of its mainstream support. I think this is a very bad move.

Virtualization in the datacenter is all the rage. Everyone is doing it and for a variety of reasons; ease of management, cost, better server utilization, the list goes on. I am no different. I have been pushing virtualization since I started working here. It just makes sense.

Of course with virtualization you have to look at all of the solutions out there and there are quite a few. You have VMWare, which is the most well known of the bunch, Microsoft and Citrix. Those are the top three as far as I am concerned if there are more please tell me about them.

Yep, that is right. Tomorrow I will be 33. Not that any of you who stop by here really cares except maybe for my family but I thought I would share anyway.

For my dad.

I keep banging my head
and I still feel the past
The enemy is coming
and coming fast
I trust in them
to make it go away
Pulling me down into
the pain of yesterday
Lost within myself
I see nothing but fear
Everything so close
I can feel it so near
But further I am pulled
deeper into the hole
Taken away from me
is my very soul
So in a blaze of glory
I will make them see
what they have done,
what has become of me
I will be the reminder
we cannot be forgotten
and left to suffer
when the training's gone rotten