As bad as British Airways are, at least their check-in works. Unlike American. Embarrassing.

Nearly 2am. I'm creating images in ChatGPT and seeing how easy it is to foil AI detectors. I need healthier sleep patterns.

I've just fixed an issue in the lab that has bugged me for twelve months. I am in equal parts elated and narked at the ease at which I solved it.

I could have sworn I've seen this season of Jack Ryan before... #Venezuela

I refuse to do diagrams in PowerPoint. It's Visio, OmniGraffle or GTFO.

I just changed my ChatGPT trait to a brutally honest and challenging one, and now I need to go sit in a dark room and cry. T-1000s are on their way. I know it.

Let's get off on the right foot, shall we @anthropic.com? 😂

Clearly, four months ago, the lab was pi**ing me off 😂

ChatGPT’s a proper flirt 😍

"I'll just catch-up on some VCF stuffs". Opens YouTube link. Hears wife's voice 😂 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvts...

Why is a bottle of Macallan 12 in North Carolina the equivalent of £61, but in Scotland, WHERE THEY MAKE IT, is £84!! Make it make sense :-O

100 bucks to reserve a seat on American Airlines. And I thought British Airways were thieving tykes. Lordy.

$AVGO

So I gotta pay for Amazon Prime Video, and then have to pay for ads on top of that? Are you on crack?

This morning's job is wrestling with partitions on Aria Suite Lifecycle :-(

Interesting article on El Reg with Yves Sandfort about #VMware, but I'll sum up the comments section for you: "He drank the koolaid" "I know lots of customers who are leaving" "I've been tasked with getting off VMware" "Licensing is up 1,000,000%" 😂😂😂 forums.theregister.com/forum/all/20...

I'm seriously missing @VMware Explore this year. The announcements, the tech, the people. It's clearly still number 1 in its field, and despite all the negative talk... it will continue to be so for quite some time.

LinkedIn somehow knows I'm watching #F1...

30 seconds of #YouTube ads before you can see a video is INSANE. I appreciate they want subscriptions but that is a tad much.

My PostgreSQL in Kubernetes is still running like an absolute Beast 🔥 And when I say "Kubernetes", I mean the leading Private Cloud distribution, VKS 😉 #kubernetes #k8s #vks #vmware #broadcom #homelab #IsItReallyAHomelabThough

25 years later and I've still got three Cobalt Qube 2s running NetBSD. A 200MHz processor and 256Mb of RAM. These things will survive the apocalypse with ease. Can't wait to upgrade to 11! www.theregister.com/2025/08/05/n...

RIP Dame Stella Rimmington. The real-life inspiration for "M" and a talented woman who rose above in a man's World. Thank you for your service.

I just saw the price of an NVIDIA H100 GPU.... and now I need to lie down 😳

1am on Monday morning and I'm compiling fresh packages manually using pkgsrc for a new NetBSD 10.1 host. I need to spend some time on this and bring VCF Automation and a pipeline tool into the mix to automate this. This ain't 2004.

airBaltic. Superfast broadband courtesy of #Starlink. For free. Legacy carriers... get your sh** together.

So everyone who trash-talked VMware/Broadcom... do you want your humble pie on a plate or in a bowl? "It's too soon!!! I know 300 gazillion customers migrating away to <insert competitor here> whaaaaaa" Cool story bro. www.theregister.com/2025/06/06/b...

Hurtling towards Warsaw and using the time to catch-up from an expert ;-) #vcf #vmware #vks #lubernetes #k8s

I have a bit of time on my hands, so I’m off to Tallinn, Estonia. From London. By train. But first, a little afternoon tea at Raffles.

Deploying Argo CD as a vSphere Supervisor Service via @mpoore.io #vcf #vks #vmware #broadcom #vExpert #k8s #kubernetes #argocd mpoore.io/posts/2025/d...

Mission Impossible II was the best in the series. Fight me bro!!

Commuting catch-up #kubernetes #k8s #google #podcast

“It’s about time we introduce you to what it is we do here….”

I'm now actively cancelling all products and services that auto-renew. It's a shitty business model and just annoys customers.

The amount of Easter Eggs in #BlackMirror is mind-blowing. #BlackMirrorS7

Anyone in my network an absolute Deity in Spanning Tree on Netgear switches? I've got a pair of 'em that are gaslighting me and are about to get dragged out of a colo and burned alive!!! #netgear #switches #colo #homelab

Dear Folks Who Make SDDC Manager. A few questions if I may: 1. Why can't I edit an unused network pool and add a network? Why must I delete it & recreate it? 2. Why do I need a network type for NFS? It's on my management VLAN and happy. 3. Why is the Terraform provider broken?

"But the other ones are FREE!!" 😭😭😭

Oh no! What should I do about my homelab licenses?!?! #vmware #vcf #broadcom #homelab

Here. We. Go. #vmware #broadcom #vcf #homelab #IsItReallyAHomelabThough

The downside of moving every application to Kubernetes is that there's no easy way to migrate them when you're rebuilding your private cloud. So I've Terraformed a new temporary Kubernetes cluster in Linode and about to break out Kasten. #k8s #kubernetes #kasten #homelab

A bottle of Margeaux, a cigar, John Wick... and evacuating my current management cluster for a new VCF 5.2.1.1 build-out. Friday's are busy in #HobbitCloud! #vmware #broadcom #vcf #homelab #IsItReallyAHomelabThough

In October 2023 I hit a bug registering an Avi Load-Balancer with the NSX Manager, which I've now hit again and can't remember how I fixed it. "That's okay, I blogged it!". Well, turns out I didn't. I started but didn't finish. Still sat in the drafts. Blog it. Every time.

I'm deploying a new Avi (NSX Load-Balancer) in one of my VCF VI Workload Domains and have decided to Terraform it. Getting the details out of an existing installation in another WLD is proving a challenge. Thank goodness for the Swagger API! #vmware #vcf #nsx #avi #terraform

2am on a Friday night and I'm still labbing. Like the good 'ole days! #homelab #hobbitcloud #IsItReallyAHomelabThough

Well well well... #broadcom #vmware #virtzilla www.theregister.com/2025/03/07/b...

These guys really are good value for money…

Prepping for a trip to the @VeloxServ datacentre tomorrow with @mpoore.io. New servers and new networking switches. I can't wait to get more horsepower into Workload Domain 1! #hobbitcloud #homelab #IsItReallyAHomelabThough

Skynet's getting a little too comfortable with nuking things for my liking 🤣 #ai #chatgpt #skynet

I am having trouble issuing certs from @letsencrypt due to the @awscloud DNS challenge in my split-brain environment. The potential workaround? A second cert-manager installation pointing to external DNS servers. Blog post to follow methinks... #k8s #kubernetes #aws

Okay, so call me "late to the party", but today was the first time I used a Windows11 "Cloud PC". What an experience! Smooth, fast, responsive, no lag... everything a cloud-based VDI experience should be. I'm really impressed! #VDI #Microsoft #CloudPC