{"id":9217,"date":"2020-06-19T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T02:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/?p=9217"},"modified":"2020-06-19T11:43:04","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T01:43:04","slug":"random-short-take-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/random-short-take-39\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Short Take #39"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Random Short Take #39. Not a huge amount of players have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/friv\/numbers.fcgi?number=39\">worn 39 in the NBA<\/a>, and I&#8217;m not going to pretend I&#8217;m any real fan of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/h\/howardw01.html\">The Dwightmare<\/a>. But things are tough all around, so let&#8217;s remain optimistic and push through to number 40. Anyway let\u2019s get random.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.veeam.com\/veeamon\/agenda\">VeeamON 2020<\/a> was online this week, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anthonyspiteri\">Anthony Spiteri<\/a> has done a great job of summarising the major technical session announcements <a href=\"https:\/\/anthonyspiteri.net\/veeamon-2020-technical-session-recap\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve known <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/deepstoragenet\">Howard Marks<\/a> for a while now, and always relish the opportunity to speak with him when I can. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deepstorage.net\/NEW\/tech-adventures-with-the-fbi-part-1\/\">This post<\/a> is pretty hilarious, and I&#8217;m looking forward to reading the followup posts.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/demitasse.co.nz\/2020\/06\/2394\/\">This is a great article<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DemitasseNZ\">Alastair Cooke<\/a> on COVID-19 and what En-Zed has done effectively to stop the spread. It was interesting to hear his thoughts on returning to the US, and I do agree that it&#8217;s going to be some time until I make the trip across the Pacific again.<\/li>\n<li>Sometimes people get crazy ideas about how they might repurpose some old bits of technology. It&#8217;s even better when they write about their experiences in doing so. <a href=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/post\/2020\/05\/automating-my-ipod-hi-fis-volume-control-because-i-can\/\">This article<\/a> on automating an iPod Hi-Fi\u2019s volume control over at <a href=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/\">Six Colors<\/a> was fantastic.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chrismevans\">Chris M. Evans<\/a> put out a typically thought-provoking piece on data migration challenges recently that I think is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.architecting.it\/blog\/managing-data-migration-challenges\/\">worth checking out<\/a>. I&#8217;ve been talking a lot to customers that are facing these challenges on a daily basis, and it&#8217;s interesting to see how, regardless of the industry vertical they operate in, it&#8217;s sometimes just a matter of the depth varying, so to speak.<\/li>\n<li>I frequently bump into <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RayLucchesi\">Ray Lucchesi<\/a>\u00a0at conferences, and he knows a fair bit about what does and doesn&#8217;t work. <a href=\"https:\/\/silvertonconsulting.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/12\/thoughts-on-my-first-virtual-conference\/\">This article<\/a> on his experiences recently with a number of virtual and online conferences is the epitome of constructive criticism.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of online conferences, the Australian VMUG UserCon will be virtual this year and will be held on the 30th July. You can find out more and register <a href=\"https:\/\/vmugvirtualaustraliausercon.vfairs.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, if you&#8217;ve spent any time with me socially, you&#8217;ll know I&#8217;m a basketball nut. And invariably I&#8217;ll tell you that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deftones.com\/\">Deftones<\/a> is may favouritest band ever. So it was great to come across <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theringer.com\/music\/2020\/6\/17\/21293057\/oral-history-deftones-white-pony-20th-anniversary\">this article<\/a> about White Pony on one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theringer.com\/\">my favourite sports (and popular culture) websites<\/a>. If you&#8217;re a fan of Deftones, this is one to check out.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Random Short Take #39. Not a huge amount of players have worn 39 in the NBA, and I&#8217;m not going to pretend I&#8217;m any real fan of The Dwightmare. But things are tough all around, so let&#8217;s remain optimistic and push through to number 40. Anyway let\u2019s get random. VeeamON 2020 was online [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,135,25,1293,1150,16,5,1138,596,4],"tags":[801,598,1288,232,1282,1309,1308,1151,395,848,787,963,1307],"class_list":["post-9217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-computers","category-dataprotection","category-datadobi","category-komprise","category-music","category-storage","category-veeam","category-vmug","category-vmware","tag-apple","tag-conference","tag-covid-19","tag-data-migration","tag-datadobi","tag-deftones","tag-ipod","tag-komprise","tag-migration","tag-random","tag-storage","tag-veeam","tag-veeamon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9217"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9219,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9217\/revisions\/9219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}