I know this blog is all about my technical career in IT, with System Center and Microsoft products and so on and so on. But I also have a secondary life which is very important to me and a lot more. In fact I am somewhat of a shy person and so is my wife. We do not ask for favors much, but do like to give them. I am talking about our dog and animal sanctuary in Thailand. Currently my wife and our staff Oarn are mainly taking care of about 60 dogs in 3 locations. Also some of our family members like the Mother and sister of my wife in one location and her father in another are doing their best to help out. We have to do all of this out of our own pocket and I can tell you it is not possible to do this alone. Also we have some huge set backs in the past few months. We are in the process of emergency relocation and are in a big stress to find funding to be able to buy a new small plot of land in a less expensive province where we can relocate to, build fencing, build a roof, build a 1 room shelter for staff and relocate most of the dogs to that location. Of course this is next to our ongoing push for health (sterilization, anti-tick program, helping sick and wounded, vaccinations, vitamins and trace elements and iron in their food somehow to get them healthier).
Two days ago I did a webinar with my good friend Cameron Fuller for our friends at Jalasoft. The webinar was of course SCOM and monitoring related. Read about the webinar and also some of the things which Cameron said about the dog sanctuary which I would not have said myself and humbles us:
http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/cfuller/archive/2015/04/16/what-is-new-and-coming-soon-to-the-microsoft-monitoring-world-and-helping-a-good-cause-opinsights-scom-opsmgr-sysctr.aspx
We all donated the proceedings of this webinar to the good cause. Lek’s House Of Tails.
More information can be found at following locations:
A website with some background information (see the tabs near the top below the picture) and information on how to donate (there are other methods, feel free to get in touch if you want to know how):
http://www.houseoftails.org/support-us
The facebook page of the sanctuary:
https://www.facebook.com/StHouseOfTails
My personal Facebook Page (have lots of pictures from several years of the dog sanctuary):
https://www.facebook.com/bob.cornelissen.5
Feel free to contact us!
Also if you want to help out by whatever means (on location help in Thailand, financial, words of advice, toys, sharing our pages and posts, liking a post or whatever you can think of it is very much appreciated!
These dogs we have known for years, we have known their grandparents and all. They got deserted by people. They were in dire need. We try to help them have a life, eat food, have a roof for the rain, have a blanket to sleep on, have a bowl to eat from, be safe from getting hit by people or cars or getting poisonned or caught for some terrible plight. We just want to keep them safe, fed, healthy. They deserve a chance and all of them are really sweet and kind.
Due to bad circumstances we had to relocate to a temporary place and will soon move to our new place, which is a piece of empty land with nothing on it and start all over.
Now to get back to the webinar at Jalasoft. We have done this webinar and I feel it went great :p We want to thank Jalasoft for giving us this opportunity. I want to thank again my co-presenter Cameron Fuller, don’t even know how to say how thankful we are mate.
Also a big thank you to several community members out of the technical community and MVP’s who have helped in several ways in the past year.
During the webinar we had a surprise for the great folks and team at Jalasoft and that was that we named one of the pups without a name after their product range: Xian.
See below for a picture of Xian (on the left, with his brothers), it is a very smart and active dog and we thought it is a perfect fit 😀
One more thing: The webinar we did was recorded and I am sure Jalasoft will publish it soon. Of course you can Always send a message to [email protected] to get access to the webinar recording or the slides and of course to get more information on one or more of their great products. Of course in the near future I will be writing about several products and monitoring and System Center.
Thank you all so much for your patience and help and shares on behalf of me, my wife, our families and 60 sets of teeth from our dogs!
Bob Cornelissen
