As we step into 2025, understanding where our industry is heading has never been more crucial. The DPP Leaders' Briefing, now in its 9th year, brought together senior executives from over 30 major media organizations to share their strategic priorities for the year ahead. While I wasn't able to attend personally this year, the insights gathered by my colleagues and detailed in the briefing documents from the DPP themselves reveal fascinating shifts in how our industry approaches technology partnerships and value delivery. Here's what caught my attention...

As a long-time Windows and Linux user transitioning to MacOS on an M3 MacBook Pro, I've found myself repeatedly encountering small but significant differences in workflow. While the M3's performance, stability, and battery life have exceeded expectations, certain familiar functionalities from other operating systems are notably absent. Today, I'm addressing one specific challenge: the missing "New Text File" context menu option in Finder.

Yesterday's webinar on "2024 in Review & 2025 Predictions" brought together industry leaders to discuss the future of media and entertainment technology. As a Solutions Architect at Perifery, I found the insights from both our panelists and audience particularly illuminating, especially regarding the practical implementation of emerging technologies.

Tomorrow marks a significant milestone in my journey as a Solutions Architect at Perifery, as I join an expert panel to discuss the evolving landscape of the media and entertainment industry. The webinar, "2024 in Review & 2025 Predictions," couldn't come at a more interesting time in my career – having transitioned into this role just six months ago, I bring both fresh eyes and decades of technical experience to the conversation.

Where some see power as a force to be seized, others recognize it as a current to be navigated. This poem presents an alternative view to the stark Realpolitik perspective of The Drunken Driver Has The Right of Way. Here, power is explored through the lens of abundance rather than scarcity, patience rather than force, and wisdom rather than might.

In this darkly satirical masterpiece, Ethan Coen presents a stark view of power dynamics in society. Through the central metaphor of a drunken driver, the poem explores how force and recklessness often prevail over careful consideration and right. It's a meditation on power that springs from a perspective of scarcity and confrontation - a world where might makes right and the careful must yield to the careless.

As technology professionals, we often find ourselves facing unexpected challenges, especially when it comes to managing critical systems and data. Recently, I encountered a situation where multiple disk failures within a RAID 6 array threatened the integrity of important data. In this article, I’ll share my experience and the solution I employed using Linux commands dd and ddrescue for disk recovery.