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My server room at work after our cleanup day on August 12, 2006. Hey, is that the floor I see? Who put that there? The cable clutter that still exists is 90% KVM cables, which will be replaced soon by nice, neat, cat5 cabling as we install our new IP-based KVM console.

My server room at work before our cleanup day on August 12, 2006.

I was combing the web for some royalty-free background music to use in a video project, when I found Ghost Notes, the blog of Bill Cushman.  I didn't use his music for the project - I ended up using a track from Freeplay Music instead - but I enjoyed listening to him while I worked on the video.  I highly recommend his work.

Symbolic links are a basic system management tool for *nix systems.  A new version of crucial software will often get installed in parallel with the previous versions so the sysadmin can switch between versions by updating the symbolic link.  Windows systems can be managed the same way, you just have to know the tricks.

$1,489,183.06 USD.  That's how much the Bugatti Veyron costs.