Friends
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
Work
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
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
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 spitting
Projects
I'm a pretty big geek as I'm sure everyone knows by now. So here's the coolest thing I've done lately:
Work
So I brought home some books and have some material here for CCIE studying. I think it's finally time I started since I posted about it a LONG LONG time ago. So hopefully I'll stick to studying for the next few months and you guys won&
Friends
Labor day weekend has been a glorious time so far. It started out with motorcycles, moved on to drinking, and finished up with a slip and slide party. I'm using today as a recovery day. I hurt everywhere from that damn slip and slide. Apparently the ground is
Books
I just finished the 6th book in Frank Herbert's Dune series. A thought came to me. "I am the destroyer of words." When I woke up this morning at 11:30 (I was up until 3 reading) I started reading another book. I want to find
Projects
No looking back! I'm ditching my custom blog application and moving over to Serendipity. It's got all of these cool features that would take me WAY to long to program. You can still catch my old blog at http://bbbburns.com/burnsblog/ but everything going to
Work
Today we had a slow day at work. This was quite possibly the best thing that could ever happen to me. I worked on an escalation, worked on my backlog, and just got to sit there without the phone ringing off the hook. I even got to close a 70
Books
I'm just finishing up the Dune series by Frank Herbert. This was recommended to me by Justin who got me interested in it with his Tattoo of the Litany. Litany Against Fear I'm reading the 6th book now which was the last one written by Frank
Projects
So I'm considering moving all future blog posts to a Serendipity CMS http://bbbburns.com/serendipity. It wasn't too much work to make an RSS feed that dumped ALL of my old entries into the new CMS system.. After that I had some formatting issues that