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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
Work
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
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
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&
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
Problem Description: Need beer and money. Action Plan: Get my CCNA before the end of July and pull in 750 bucks. So work is offering an incentive to get your CCNA.. I hadn't really considered this because it's the lowest level cert you can get.. and
Friends
I'm a bit behind on posts as always. A week or so back my roommate Khalil started a job for Cisco up in NYC. This is great for a number of reasons. 1. Khalil gets a pimp job in NYC. 2. I get an awesome master bedroom. In
Friends
I bought a new Canon SD700is so there should be more photo updates. I started out with my cube Then since the weekend rolled around I moved to taking pictures of drunken friends
Friends
It's about that time for a monthly update. I know how sad you all would be if I let the entire month of April pass without an update. Let's see what's new: Heather moved in to the house. Now we're pretty full
I am now a full time employee of Cisco Systems, Inc. This has sort of been a dream of mine for the past few years now, and it finally came true. I was working at Lulu for a while, and I really enjoyed the job, the people, and the business