WTF?

Where’d the name MiguelitoNet come from?

A friend of the family has called me miguelito for as long as I can remember… for a couple reasons.

  • Michael in spanish is Miguel.
  • Miguelito can mean both Mike in a familiar way, and literally ‘little Mikey’.

Since I’ve always been large, the 2nd meaning is kind of like a reverse meaning nickname.

When it came time to get my own domain a few years ago, I needed a name for one, and miguelito came to mind. .com and .net were already gone, so I got the .org one. When filling out the forms to register the domain, it asked for a organization name, so I just typed in MiguelitoNet… I’ve been using that as the site name

Who am I?

My name is Mike Marion. I’m a Unix System Administrator for Qualcomm Inc. or, to be in more precise, I work in the Qualcomm CDMA Technologies business unit… that’s the group that designs and makes the chips that power a good chunk of the wireless world.
Note: The usual disclaimer that my opinions are my own and not those of my employer apply on my entire site.

Over the last 4 years at Qualcomm, I’ve worked primarily on Sun Solaris based system, but lately have worked more and more on x86 Linux systems.

Update 2/5/2008:
Seriously overdue update… Hit my 10(!) year anniversary at Qualcomm last October. I’m the primary linux systems architect (aka I’m a Linux sysadmin) for the QCT division these days. Barely touch Solaris anymore…

I went to Mesa College for 3 years (Fall 91-Spring 94) and earned an AA, then went to SDSU for 4 years (Fall 94- Spring 98) and earned a BS in Computer Science. Yeah, so I took 7 years to finish college… bite me. It was while working on the BS at SDSU that I realized I didn’t like programming much at all (and I’m not good at OOP at all), and that I really enjoyed systems administration… and had a talent for it as well. It was also during a class on SysAdmin (CS470 with Dr. John Carroll) that I worked on a lab team with two guys that later were hired at Qualcomm, and brought me in when needed.

Going way back… I went to High School at USDHS, and grade school at St. Columba. Yep… catholic school. Uniforms in grade school sucked, but I think we (my sister went to both schools too) got a much better education then we would’ve had our parents left us in public school.

If you want more personal info, write me.