Twitter: @thatfleminggent

  • Really should use a templating engine for Meisha's website.. 21 hrs ago
  • Flicking some DNS zones around. #powerdns gsqlite3 backend really doesn't like apostrophes in TXT RRs :-P 1 day ago
  • "Firefox: It Won't Make Your Missus Puke" should be the next Mozilla slogan :-) 2 days ago
  • Questions With Obvious Answers Number 65535: Asking a sysadmin on a Friday afternoon if he wants a beer. 2 days ago
  • I hope rebirth really exists so my network administrator spends the next several lifetimes as a telemarketer. Thatll teach him. 2 days ago
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Michael Fleming

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A Poutpourri and the GFC.

It’s felt like a long week so far but I must admit I’m faring better than some - I’m looking over resumes for friends at the moment ( I think I’ve seen more skill matrices than shell prompts today!) who’ve lost work over the past few weeks due to the GFC - redundancies and in [...]

Where to from here?

I seem to have found myself at a crossroads. Not a personal one (well, not really) but hobby / professional. Make of that what you will.
Firstly, I’ve been doing IT support and systems administration for a living for nigh on nine years now. I’d been a Linux tinkerer well before then (I got into mail [...]

Unfortunate circumstances…

Thought I’d post a quick update seeing that’s it’s been a while.
Firstly, I am again looking for work. I’m not going to go into detail other than to say I’m extremely disappointed and will be very careful who I work for in the future. If anyone in Brisbane (or doesn’t mind a telecommuter) needs a [...]

Updates..

Work: Is going well. Security and fixup work at the moment, a nice mailserver build (learning a bit about I/O kernel elevators) and miscellanea.
Life: My love is back from interstate with all of her needed gear. Catching up with old friends from school via Facebook of all places. Another old wound crossed off The List [...]

Ups and downs.

Heh, a month between posts? I must be getting slack.
Things have mostly improved. I am again gainfully employed in a systems architecture / infrastructure development type role with Dedicated Servers / Hosting Shop here in Brisbane. It means less systems admin work (and the downsides like insane hours and being tied to a pager / [...]

Much is happening (not much of it good…)

Well - what can I say?
I’ve suddenly have some free time on my hands, however not the way I’d intended (some holidays). My employer decided - very suddenly I might add, over a coffee @4pm last Tuesday afternoon - to make me redundant as of the 13th of May.
I wasn’t given any warning and frankly [...]