What are you going to Differently on Monday? It's holiday, I am not going to work!

Hanging with some data center folks, they said there was a session at Uptime for closing asking the question, “What are you going to Differently on Monday?”  

It’s a holiday and I am not going to work!  What about you?  Take a break.  Spend time with your family and friends,  Don’t check e-mail.  Don’t think about Data Centers!

Keynote

What Are You Going to Do Differently on Monday?

Pitt Turner, Uptime Institute Executive Director Emeritus (Moderator)

Sudhir Kalra, Executive Director in Enterprise Infrastructure, Morgan Stanley

Chris Crosby, CEO, Compass Datacenters

Fred Dickerman, Vice President, Data Center Operations, DataSpace

This keynote panel provides a platform for some of our most distinguished guests to share what they thought were the takeaways from the week's event. How might the information gleaned at Uptime Institute Symposium impact their companies and careers going forward?The idea, started by Pitt Turner at one of the first Symposia, was to ask, "What are you going to do differently on Monday?" This is a key session to reinforce new ideas and new thinking, and to make sure the event has an impact beyond the three days we share in Santa Clara.

General Session I

Facebook Employee, A Data Center Skill Test?

Most of you work in a data center. Can you do this?

This photo came from a Facebook presentation, and is of an employee who posts on her Headstands, including in a Facebook data center.

Here are three images that show range that Abby goes to show her headstands.

Do You Have A Data Center Expert? Watch This Video and LOL

Have you got a data center expert on your team?  Do you have business requirements that require a data center expert?

Have you had experiences like in this video.  Warning this video is popular it is has had over 6.6 mil views.

I found this video on this post by http://themultidisciplinarian.com 

What's your Favorite Typeface (humor)

People who have a focus on design at some point have the question asked “What’s your favorite Typeface?"

Here is a comedian’s answer.

Happy St Patrick's Day

St Patrick’s Day is a day to celebrate for the Irish, and Google even changes for today.

So many people have thought I am Irish, and my name is spelled like in this family crest.

I always spell my name - Dave Ohara, but people will sneak an apostrophe in.  Recently I was visiting AT&T and an admin escorted me to a meeting.  I told her, I bet you thought I was an Irishman.  (embarrassingly) Yes.  How’d you know?  Because when you came down you talked to the security guard and she pointed at me.  You were looking for a red haired Irishman and couldn’t find me in the lobby..  I then told her various stories of how others thought I was Irish.  The best is when I worked at Apple and a tooling engineer was in Japan visiting Mitsubishi, and he was telling them a new person joined the team, Dave O’Hara.  The Japanese were telling him that Dave Ohara is a Japanese person.  No, O’Hara is a popular Irish name and I was Irish.

Maybe if people could read this  小原 which is Ohara in Kanji (Japanese Writing) they would think I was Japanese.

Doesn’t really bother me that people think I am Irish.  I had some Irish Stew for lunch and a Guinness is in fridge.  

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!