The title on my Position Description (PD) is Associate Information
Processing Consultant. That's what my business cards say. I call
myself Systems Administrator. I handle pretty much everything computer
related for about 85 machines (which includes a 50 seat computer lab)
and 8 staff members. The workstations and desktops are all Windows
based (2k at the time of this writing). The servers are a collection
of win2k server, w2k3 server, and Redhat Enterprise Linux derivatives
(Tao and Whitebox at the moment).
This blog will hopefully become; a collection of interesting tricks,
lessons learned, results of research into products or problems, and
other technical tidbits from my life as a sysadmin. Hopefully it will
be useful to others.
So I'm starting a blog. I could write my own software. This wouldn't
unreasonable as the rest of my site is maintained with custom perl code
using Mason. But seeing as how I
have enough projects on my plate (at both work and home), adding another
seemed like a bad idea.
A bunch of my friends (seemingly all of them actually) have blogs of
some sort. Most of them use a hosted blogging package (like LiveJournal or Blogger. This wasn't an option as I
wanted it hosted on my own site. Of self-hosted blogging packages WordPress and MovableType are both used
by a couple of my friends. Some research was required.
