noise from a dad & operations wrangler
Last Wednesday, July 31, I left Mozilla as a full time paid-staff. Seven years at Mozilla has fundamentally changed how I operate. It’s redefined my values and helped define my personal mission & purpose. The impact I had on Mozilla and on the Mozilla Project extended far outside Mozilla IT…
Continue reading →Four months ago was a very tough time in Operations. We suffered a catastrophic disk array failure on Mozilla’s mail server (I blogged about it too). A series of mistakes kept email offline for two days. This was the worst I’ve ever felt, both professionally and personally. Fast forward to…
Continue reading →If I could do this week over I would. Too bad I can’t. Email today is vital. Not having it makes your heart palpitate. Monday morning, during a swap of a failed hard drive (something we’ve done countless times) the storage array we use for email went offline. The whole…
Continue reading →Last week, for eight days, I was able to step outside my normal role managing Operations and wear an entirely different hat. I had an amazing opportunity to interact with the vibrant Mozilla and Open Source community; I got to interact with those who I help from the shadows every…
Continue reading →My son has a vague concept of what I do at work. He knows I work at “Firefox”, knows the dino and knows I “fix computers”. He knows that if he wants to get online he has to double-click on the Firefox icon and then on the Kidzui icon: He…
Continue reading →NSID 2008 had to come to an early close for me today. I leave Monday for my sister’s wedding in Chicagoland and while I would have loved to hold out till the end of the month or even a few more days, that just wasn’t realistic (something about looking presentable).…
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