Andrew Hale: IT Talk & Other Topics

IKEA has discontinued the Galant. I know, by now, nearly a year after the new first broke, it's hardly news. I only learned of it's demise recently. My wife has added quilting to her crafting repitoire so to keep her from taking over our living room, I had to relinquish control of my office (which we call the Manitorium) and actually share. Our original idea was to get one huge Galant L-shaped desk and share the big desk but after seeing that it's been discontinued with no successor as configurable, we've made the plans to just get separate desks. I already have a nice Galant desk, which I get to keep, and she wants to get the Kallax shelf unit with the Linnmon desk add-on. The point of this post isn't to talk about how I'm sharing my office with my crafty wife. I wanted to provide some explanation for anybody just coming across the Galant-is-dead news for themselves. IKEA discontinued the Galant desks but not the other office storage add-ons. In case you just...

At my job, at the time of this writing, I'm the backup sysadmin in charge of our virtual infrastructure (Cisco UCS blades + vSphere 5.1). As my boss, who's the primary for these things, is taking on a new role (same company & still my boss), I'm on track to become primary for these things. As a part of that effort I've been playing catch-up to learn more about vSphere, PowerCLI & Powershell among several other things.