Nerhood Weblog

NetApp could really learn something from Cisco. Cisco offers all of its product manuals and documentation to everyone. In order to get access to NetApp’s documentation, you have to apply to their NOW (NetApp On the Web) site. In order get the necessary level of access you need to supply a serial number.
We are trying [...]

Ellie finally had her first haircut on Tuesday. After 5 1/2 years, she decided that she wanted to get it cut. Because her hair is so curly it’s really hard to tell how long it was without it being wet. She wanted it to be cut up to her shoulders, but it ended up being [...]

Way back in February we had a Datalink “an information storage architect … [who] analyzes, designs, implements, and supports information storage infrastructures that store, protect, and provide continuous access to information” come out to our site to perform a Storage Assessment. During that process they looked not only at the systems we currently have in [...]

My good friend Tom and his wife Amy have started a new blog called Thoughts from the Couch. This is a follow on to Tom’s original blog called Bald Man Losing where he was chronicling his weight loss. In this new one both he and Amy are writing about what they are doing.

They have this [...]

What is the best way to remove Revlon’s ColorStay Lipstick? After Sarah found her way into Fern’s purse, got ahold of her favorite lipcolor, and decided that she needed a makeover, we needed to find the best way to remove lipstick from a baby. We tried using diaper wipes, but that hardly made a difference. [...]

I recently finished listening to all three books in The Legends of Dune, a prequel to the Dune series. It actually took a long time to listen to these books (almost 4 months). Not only are they exceeding long, but they are extremely heavy. By that I mean, that the prose is thick, the stories [...]

I ran across this hilarious video today while surfing. It has a lot of dance steps spanning the 70s, 80s, and 90s. It is performend by Judson Laipply as the finale on his “Inspirational Comedy” speaking engagements. It has been called by some “the funniest 6 minutes you’ll ever see.” While I never was much [...]

I’ve been writing about how Dell’s PowerVault 220s are junk for quite awhile now. We experienced our 3rd major crash for the year this week. We had everything restored and back in operation 23 hours later.
In the meantime we brought in a data storage consultant to analyze our storage infrastructure. They presented a detailed report [...]

That is the flavor of the amoxicillin that we picked up last night for Ellie’s case of strep throat. So needless to say there is a lot of hand washing going on at the Nerhood house today.