Being a programmer by trade, I get thrown into many projects that aren’t always my forte, but I can figure them out and get them working the way that I want.

I’ve been messing with powershell for a while now with VMware, but never really getting into big time scripting with it. Its mainly be something to use to accomplish some various tasks on mutliple hosts. Very little error checking in the scripts since I’m watching them was they run. If I want to put them into a scheduled task or automate them from a web page, more error checking is needed.

Another video about our food supply. Its about choices, awareness, and helping spread the word.

Today marked the official start to the race season for me. I’m not competitive in these things by any means but calling it a race season makes it seem like I know what I’m doing. Signup, run, don’t die. Pretty much in that order. In the end, its all about knocking out one of my goals for 2012.

There were a lot of things different about the Red Flannel Run in 2012 compared to last year. First and foremost, the temps. Last year we were in the mid-30s and I was warm as could be in my gear. This year, I wore pretty much the same thing except the temps were 7 degrees with a -6 windchill. It was cold out there. But with the gear I had on and the running, I warmed up pretty quickly. I just wish I would have had some sort of neck gator on. That would have made a pretty big difference for me. I kept having some breathing issues after the first 1.5 miles and I’m pretty sure it was due to things (mouth, lungs etc) freezing up a bit.

For those looking for the slides from the puppet presentation that I gave last week, here they are.

I’ll be working on getting a screen cast of the demo up in the next week or so. Too many other things distracting me at this moment.

For those that haven’t seen my twitter feed…

I’m going to be doing a presentation in the coming days for the local linux user group (CIALUG) on Puppet from Puppet Labs.

Free pizza and some swag will be thrown around.

The event is 100% free and should hopefully get you acquainted with all the cool stuff you can automate. Signup for your free ticket!