I don't generally talk about work on this blog, but since this is kinda big news, I'll talk about work just this once.
Today, I'm leaving EMC|SMARTS, after just over 3 and a half years of working here. I started with SMARTS as a Sales Engineer, and after two years of that, moved into Professional Services (consulting) just about the time EMC Corp bought SMARTS. That acquisition didn't really affect me at all, job-wise. I was happy at EMC|SMARTS thru my whole tenure there. The idiot-quotient was relatively low even.
The new job is with a company called RealOps. It is not in the network management space, where I've spent the last 10 years of my career, but being automation, is still within the larger "enterprise management" space.
I'm looking forward to the change, and hope it is good for me. EMC was not overly offensive as large companies go, but I am looking forward to working in a smaller company again.
So of course, the new monitor had to be an Apple HD 30" Cinema Display. It could not be anything else, really.
I got it today, on my way home from my last day at EMC. I've been planning on buying one anyway, so this isn't a impulse buy. The big decision was to get it tonight, and have to get it home somehow, or get it tomorrow and have planned the getting it home thing out a little more.
So of course, I got it tonight, and carried it home on the subway. The new Apple Store on 5th Avenue is a block away from the N and W train, and I live 2 blocks from the station at the Queens end of the trip. It was a little heavy, but the box is not as huge as you might suspect, and it was just a chore, not hell or anything.
So I pretty much just pushed everything else off my desk, and plugged it in. I left the old 22" Cinema Display plugged in, next to the new one.....
And what a difference it makes. The new monitor is bright. The colors are clear and even. I didn't even realize how crappy my old monitor looked, and made my photos look, until just now. It is nearly night and day.
For now, I have the old monitor still plugged in, and have the mail and instant messenger applications on that monitor. It is at least (sorta) still good for that.