Elph and I went out to Corman Farms today to talk to Mark and check out some possible spots for a webcam.  Elph took photos form the potential posts; I took notes and petted the Shetlands.  You can see all of today’s photos in our gallery.

Craig and I had a good meeting with our new rep from our network security vendor. We’ve had a relationship with the vendor for over 6 years and occasionally get a new rep who we bring up to speed. It’s always a two-way learning. Our new rep has a solid background in the field with [...]

This morning from 3:30 to 6:15 our firewall decided to play hide-and-seek with Tom and I. It hid pretty well – blocking all incoming and outgoing traffic. It was a sense of deja-vu from our NYC trip but a different piece of equipment this time. I’ve never felt great about our brand of firewall but [...]

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The house finally moved today! At around 10:30am, the cable people started mobilizing to take down the wires, and Brian and I proceeded to shut down the servers and workstations. Then we went outside. It was a thrilling sight. We (Craig and Roan were there too) stood at the corner of Detroit and Fifth and [...]

Sunday. A historic house is planned to be moved down 5th, right by our building and we’ve been informed the power will go out for a ’short duration’ between 7am to 10pm. We were unable to verify whether that included the Deli or just ATS and we have no way to learn whether it will [...]

No, not a halloween party. I received a call from Allen at 4 pm on Saturday saying the power was down at Mail Order and judging from the signals out at the intersection it was an entire area outage. I was at home getting ready for a halloween party – popped open my laptop, verified [...]

4/Onsite
Each IT staff member commits to spending at least 4 hours at a Zingerman’s business. We rotate every week among five locations – Deli & Catering, ATS & ZHouse (ZingTrain, ZingNet, DSE), Roadhouse, Bakehouse & Creamery, Mail Order & Coffee. While out there we make ourselves available, we attend huddles, inspect and clean the [...]

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