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Why I didn’t buy Shakeology for so long The funny thing is I have been a Beachbody customer for years.  I’ve done P90X so many times I can almost recite the DVD’s from memory.  I’ve also been part of the Team Beachbody community for almost as long.  A few times …

I rarely talk politics on my blog, and I will never tell anyone how I voted in this election.  In fact one of my friends actually accused me of being a communist simply because I don’t vote based on a given party.  I vote for the lesser of the two possible evil’s …

One of the cool things I get to do is blog about any news related to everything VMware.  Yes recently I have been the vCloud guy, and now Nicira dude, but I also follow some of the other spaces VMware is in.  Specifically Socialcast since we use it a lot …

Duncan Epping and I were both asked by Simon Mijolovic a colleague here at VMware to help promote some new useful KB articles.  Since the release of vSphere 5.0 and 5.1 Simon has been working with many others on documenting the processes to update and use proper signed CA certificates within your vSphere environment.  I …

I cannot take credit for this, but I had to repost on my blog.  My wife did a great job summarizing our feelings after 4 Political calls in a row at 10:00 on a Saturday Morning. I don’t know if any of my friends volunteer their time to make calls for their favorite political …

Okay I know the title sounds a little bit like, “Why on earth would you need to do that?”.  Well as with everything this odd situation happened to me as I was rebuilding a lab kit in the Cambridge office.  Here is the situation that resulted in the need to …

For 7 years now I have been stuck with TDS Telecom for my phone and internet access.  TDS Telecom is a giant company outside of New Hampshire but for some reason they own a small piece of the pie from Lyndeborough, NH to Hollis and some areas north of us. …

I thought it would be useful to people to understand the actual components that go into a Nicira NVP deployment.  This is just meant to be a rundown of the various parts that are needed to deploy the Nicira NVP infrastructure.  In doing a few VMware SE knowledge transfer sessions it …