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Because we are coming up so quickly on Cisco Live 2013 in Orlando, and because it is a Sunday evening and I cannot find a single thing I am motivated to write about, I decided to build a photo gallery of some of my photos from last year’s Cisco Live confe…

My wife and I were reviewing our post-Cisco Live plans (hint: we’re Disney junkies) and came across a nifty deal that we were unaware of.

_ “Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

(A “Transformers” promotional image originally appeared here but was lost in a previous site migration.

“In theory there is no difference between theory and practice.

We’re adding a little something to this month’s sales contest.

“There is always a well-known solution to every human problem–neat, plausible, and wrong.

I just received this from one of my Linked-in groups and thought I’d share it:

The Burnout “You don’t burn out from going too fast.

“Life is hard.

“If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

One of the things that I am called upon to do fairly often in my current role is to configure remote access VPN devices for some site or another.

In light of some recent emails, Facebook and Twitter updates, and panicked calls from the user community at large, I thought it was about time to resurrect this time-worn–and somewhat hackneyed–screed on email.

The current state of IPv6 support in many vendors products makes me want to donkey-kick someone right in the… well, let’s just say it upsets me.

Everyone–My schedule (as it stands currently) for Cisco Live in San Diego this year is below.

One of the projects that I began early last year is an IPv6 rollout across our entire worldwide network.

I know I haven’t exactly been filling the blog-space with useful tidbits, random ramblings, or musings on clown psychology lately.

After 17 years in the industry I have decided that it is time to pass down some advice to the newer entrants in to the field of Information Technology.

As a lot of readers already know, from comments and discussions on other forums, I recently made the switch from PC to Mac for my main personal computer.

(A photo gallery that originally appeared here was lost in a previous site migration.

This post is late in coming, considering that I’ve been back from Cisco Live for a good couple of weeks now.

Just a brief recap of Cisco Live 2010 in photos:

I just wanted to drop a quick note here to let everyone know that I plan on blogging a little more frequently this week, as I’ll be in Las Vegas for the annual North American Cisco conference: Cisco Networkers/Live.

So, nostalgia about computers and the “good ole’ days” gets strong with me whenever I turn on my old Apple II, or pull out any old magazines from the early 80’s or 90’s.

This post will be a short one, and mostly just comes from a discussion I had the other day with another engineer.

So, a lot of people who are working towards their CCIE certifications end up building home labs for studying.

Everyone has been posting their schedules for Cisco Live to Twitter, Facebook and wherever else, so I thought I’d better jump in with the cool kids and publish mine as well.

“If you hold a cat by the tail, you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

Editor’s Note: Google Chrome seems to dislike my site theme and is hyphenating absolutely everything.

As is typical in the world of IT, problems have a way of sneaking up on you when you least expect it, then viciously attacking you with a Billy-club.

Editor’s Note: If you haven’t already, check out the first installment in this–hopefully not ongoing–series at https://packetqueue.

Why Bonjour Hates my Wireless Network Many of you know my struggle as of late to integrate all of my recently acquired Apple devices into my existing network.

Passing the CCIE R&S Written (350–001) I am proud to say that I have completed the first step on my journey to the CCIE Routing and Switching certification: namely, I passed the written qualification exam.

Random (and not so deep) Thoughts by Some Clown I haven’t been writing a lot lately, mostly due to a combination of my work and study schedule.

iTunes Home Sharing A decent into the hell of Bonjour and black turtle-necks

Things I Hate, Episode 1 Brought to you by the Impediment-to-Sales Sales department

Well, it’s over.

Back from China After roughly one week in Shanghai, China to set up a new site on our corporate network, it is painfully apparent that I need to get back into this writing business.

Wow I’ve been busy lately.

One of the nice things about working with Cisco equipment, as opposed to many other brands, is that you truly do get a smorgasbord of features and capabilities.

For all of you paying any attention at all, I owe you an apology on the complete lack of writing the last week or so.

Most of you are probably familiar with the IEEE 802.1x specification, at least in general terms, but are more than likely used to seeing it applied in the context of wireless networks and services.

Last Thursday afternoon, at approximately 2:25pm, there was a loud sucking sound that can only be heard by network engineers conditioned to expect bad, ugly things to happen at inopportune times, and all upstream connectivity to our corporate office died.

Just noticing some differences in this 2960‑S model switch; things I haven’t seen before in this product line.

When I think of all of the tools I use on a regular basis to do my job more effectively, there are a handful that stand out as being the most useful of all.

You ever have one of those weeks where everything that can go wrong, does?