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I've decided to give twitter a try. My only problem is that I don't know of anyone besides Brendan who uses the thing. Help out my testing by signing up here. View my twitter page here.
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Good Fortune?
Last week I had Chinese food with a small group of friends. Besides the food, my favorite part is the fortune cookies. I like the taste and you never know what fortune you'll get. I had an awesome one that day: "Your greatest wish will come true.
Friends
Houses - Life- Stuff
Ever since the first one of my friends said "I'm buying a house" I've had a strange sinking feeling. A vague unease that I haven't been able to describe. I haven't been able to express my displeasure with the concept,
Projects
Number 16, I will miss you
I had my Top Left Wisdom Tooth pulled today. Tooth #16. The dentist did a good job. It was a pretty big effort judging by how sore my skull is right now, but I was in and out of the office in 45 minutes. Pretty good time. I learned a
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Vista PC
I bought a new PC and am rocking the Vista on it. I've also installed WoW, Team Fortress 2, and Portal. I play all of these on high cranked up to 1680x1050. It looks so smooth and awesome. Dual GeForce 8800 GTS 512s in SLI will do that.
Work
CCIE Attempt #2 - FAIL
Took a while to update this one. I failed my most recent round of CCIE testing. I did better than the first time, but not good enough to pass. I knew all of the answers, but I was not calm, cool, or collected enough to correctly apply this information in
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CCIE Attempt #2
I looked back and read my first post on my first CCIE attempt. All of those things apply again. I was more nervous than I should have been and made stupid mistakes because of it int ser 1/0:23 shut left unchecked for several hours.. then me doing my
Music
1 - Click Ordering, The Evolution
I was pleasantly surprised the other day at Amazon.com by 1 - Click ordering. I was buying some MP3s (I know.. I could have just downloaded them for free.. but I feel better about myself and I'm not hurting for cash) and I just clicked buy. All of
Friends
Christmas and New Years
It's taken me a while to get around to posting, but the holidays around here were a pretty good time. There was some celebrating, and a lot of relaxing. Mostly relaxing. But I do have pictures of the celebrating part. Let me give you some of the high
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CCIE Attempt #1 - FAIL
I got my CCIE Voice Lab score report this morning. I failed. Time to sign up for the test again and give it another try. I would say that I was close.. but I don't know that for sure. In fact I even got 0% in some of
Books
CCIE Attempt #1
We'll call this post CCIE attempt number 1. I've completed my first attempt at the CCIE. I'm not sure how high in number these posts will get. I sat down, read through the test.. and then said WTF on about 4 or 5 of
Work
Error messages and serviceabilty
Justin had some interesting comments on serviceability and error messages: http://tinfoilsoldier.com/blog/2007/11/02/net-helpmsg/ I run into this crap CONSTANTLY day after day trying to figure out what a certain error message means. Turns out it all depends on who programmed the lines of code