Updates for my regular readership of two people plus 5000 spambots:
- I stayed away from the blog for a long time because I made the mistake of sharing my last post, on HPE/Juniper, on LinkedIn. Imagine the panic when people actually read it, including SVPs at Cisco. I’m fairly open with my thoughts on this blog, and I don’t want to limit my career prospects. In retrospect, I think I should embrace frankness and keep sharing blogs on LinkedIn.
- I changed the WordPress theme for this blog. I think this new theme is a bit more readable. Hopefully you all feel the same. The previous theme had a weird issue. When I shared the post on LinkedIn, instead of the title in the auto-generated preview, it said “posts navigation”. That looks cheesy. Rather than try to hack the HTML and figure out why, I switched themes. The new one doesn’t have that problem.
- However, before I did this I attempted to share the latest blog on tech field day. LinkedIn seems to have cached it with “posts navigation” as the title, so I’ll probably republish it with a different permalink, leaving the old one in place for anyone who might have been directed to it. So if you see the article again, I’m not going crazy.
- I hope to get back to doing some technical blogging. I love the perspectives and reflections, but something can’t keep me out of the lab. Look for a few blogs soon. (And I have a great history of promising to do something for this blog and not delivering on it, hope that doesn’t happen.)