northlandboy

You haven’t heard much from me recently for a very good reason. I have had no life. None whatsoever. No biking, no going out, no watching TV, nothing. All my spare time has revolved around one thing: CCIE study. This year I set myself a challenge, of becoming a CCIE (Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert). This [...]

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Recently I started a new job, in some ways coming back full circle to how I started out. As a fresh graduate, I started work for HP as an IT Consultant. My main focus was network management systems. Rakesh Patel started work at HP at the same time. Coincidentally, we both left HP around the same [...]

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Anna decided that we had too much spare time on our hands, and not enough stress, so she decided that in addition to studying for her exams, planning and wedding, my studying for the CCIE lab, and my changing to a new job (more on that in another post), we should look for a new [...]

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Back in 2005, when I was working in Scotland, New Zealand put together a superb bid for the Rugby World Cup, doing everything they could. We were competing against the likes of South Africa and Japan, and we just don’t have the money or resources to compete against the big boys. So we got all [...]

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A few weeks back we went mountain biking, taking our dog with us. It’s a bit hard taking him in summer, as he’s a long haired dog, built for living in the snow. He still wants to come, but he has to get told No, you’re not coming today. He doesn’t understand, so just looks [...]

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