By Jim Pilgrim This old War Horse doesn’t tweet. I never thought I would write a blog either and I was certain no one would read it if I did. After some persistent coaxing from my boss, I started…
By Tom Warren Back in 1997 when I graduated from college, I started working at a company called CSP which was a little cable assembly house in Plymouth, MN. It was right down the street from another…
By Jim Pilgrim One of the things I most look forward to when I travel south out of Minnesota is Chic-fil-A. They have the best chicken sandwich I have ever tasted and with the waffle fries and a…
By Jim Pilgrim I have very few, none of them professional athletes. Not one on TV or radio. Each one has a characteristic I admire and strive to emulate. Here are 5 individuals that inspire me every…
By Jim Pilgrim Back in the early 1990s, I was a CO Supervisor at US West. I had a crew of 12 Technicians, 10 on the day shift, 1 on evenings and 1 on nights. Together we covered the Minneapolis…
By Jim Pilgrim In telecom, 5-9s is defined as the average uptime in any given 365 day period – 99.999%. (Count them, 5 – 9s) That’s 364.99635 days up and roughly 5 minutes, 15 seconds downtime in a…
