Being a person absolutely committed to continuous grasping of knowledge I began finding it difficult recently to mobilize myself to keep going steady in it.

The reason is simple and designed to black out inevitable laziness to some extent. Everyone who knows me close enough has surely heard the last year was one of the toughest yet one of the most productive years ever. To balance on the cutting edge of technology and be able to pull through all the challenges you have to deal with daily you need to keep grasping knowledge.

In order to become a bit more mobile in grasping the knowledge I’ve purchased a Kindle a year ago. Since then, I purchased and read a number of books and accidentally explored a phenomenon that I would call a ‘refreshment definition’. The Kindle itself proved to be a very concise indicator of how_refreshed_and_ready_to_ roll_do_I_feel. No single person in the entire world (my wife included) is capable of such an analysis.

The output is quite simple yet self-explanatory – what is the primary desire I have while looking at this little chap? When completely down and burned out – the primary desire to vomit and throw it away.

When the brains are refreshed the chap looks quite sexy and intimidating inviting to purchase one more cool book off Amazon and have a good read. I’m so delighted that after this tremendously busy week that contained of numerous meetings, very intensive workshop and a business trip to Moscow the Kindle looks the latter way.

 

 

Since the times I remember myself this day has been awakening a special feeling of understanding the utmost effort of human will, unparalleled suffer and countless lives of fellow countrymen all put on the altar of the Great Victory.
To those men of steel who saved the future.
Lest we forget.

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Hey-hey everyone,

Yet again it’s turning to be awhile between my posts here. Excuses will not do any good but apparently the amount of new things I have to deal with is tremendous.

I can only notice how this Friday is substituted by next Friday, the next Friday passes away at the same full speed and this circle cannot seem to end.

This is not bad actually. These days I’m drifting past the symbolic one month at the new place and it already feels like I’ve been here for years. Not bad too I believe. The processes are being formalized, new services are entering the market, great challenges are being worked on, even the learning still holds its firm position – last  week I passed 70-646 I had been preparing for during my Intermedia times to make my input to company’s effort towards new Microsoft partner program requirements.This finally closed my MCITP Server Administrator track.

What actually holds me in thrall is the fact of how fast everything around you changes. And you need to keep up with that to remain competitive. I expect to see Exchange 2010 share growing this year in Russia and am pretty sure my current company will contribute to it significantly. The other task I’m personally involved in is intensification of partnership with RIM as the BlackBerry market share is subject to a fast pace growth after it was finally set free* to be marketed by governmental security.

Apart from business affairs there is a good deal of awesomeness too. I found myself really missing some of my ex-colleagues (I hope this was kinda mutual but I can’t be certain:)) so that I went ahead and added a recurring monthly appointment for us to get together in a cosy pub, have some beers, share news chatting nicely.

I would love to see this tradition going on as long as it provides that level of excitement I’ve witnessed so far. One more excitement I’d like to share is the special feeling you begin to experience towards certain people when you get not_so_close as you’ve been before. This is one of a kind and it’s something new to me indeed. As a side effect my IM is in a very heavy usage last weeks:)

Take care.

 

Well, once again I did not keep to post deadlines on this blog and postponed MFCMAPI tips series… December was really busy and brought quite a few crucial changes to my life flow.

The month was full with controversy. Many negative things did co-exist with the positive ones and I am happy to say the things seem to have settled by now.

What that basically means? That I’m going to push forward hard with technical insights here and finally make the promises happen.

On the good sides of things is the change in my job role. I have decided to leave Intermedia and accepted the challenging offer from fast paced Russian hosting company Infobox where I will be in charge of cloud services I’ve proved myself to be proficient in  – Exchange 2010, WSS 3/4, OCS/Lync and a couple of other exciting cloud based services that are about to be launched.

I feel pretty excited about new opportunities coming up and expect the cloud to extend its influence over Russia in the next few years so we can strengthen our positions as a leader in this field. I would love to see the businesses growing strong in their perception of cloud as the inevitable and cost effective solution for running their IT infrastructure. The trend is getting underway that colors the future’s weather as ‘overcast’ in the most positive cloud sense.

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