Category: Personal

Cisco Live

Went to Cisco Live last week. One of the best conferences I have been to. So much information that can directly apply to many of the challenges we have at work that I have to take some time to mull it over. I will be posting some interesting findings I have soon.

  • Nexus 5k/2k hardware is quite intriguing and if you change the way you think of a traditional simple deployment can be quite useful
  • Nexus 7k has a fabric that is ridiculously fast and wide (fabric is in the hundreds of TBps not GBps)
  • How to squeeze more out of your MARS
  • ASA Firewall design considerations
  • How to get rid of Spanning-Tree and all its problems

Anyways I need to get back to work…

Goals and Growth

Starting this year I was planning on participating in a few online projects regarding blog posting and photography. I was hoping to try and force some normalcy into my life via these projects, basically pursue some hobbies. As you may have noticed that hasn’t happened as of yet. I still want to post more blogs and take more photos. But recovering mentally from having a single mindset for almost a full year has been harder than I expected.

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New year, New Endeavors

Greetings everyone,

As it has been a busy and productive first day of the year I am just now getting to my first of the year blog post. I have a few goals to be completed this year and some projects that I would like to participate in.

Project 52

For the past year I have been less that consistent with blog posts. In hopes of learning to be more communicative with the world and to increase my ability to talk clearly I thought it would be helpful to write more. Now as I am an Systems & Network Administrator 99% of my posts will be around my industry and the things that I am studying. But I will try to breathe some life into my posts and not make the soo technical.

Project 365

I have realized that over the past year I have experienced my first year of marriage and I dont really remember much of it. I have been nose down in work and have not really been able to embrace and enjoy the first year. By enjoy I mean I dont remember much of it without my wife reminding me. So I thought I would try out this project 365 to document something that happens to be me everyday so that at the end of the year I can remember the smaller joys of life and not just the big things. I am using Flickr for this so look me up there (I also have a picasa album, I might keep some larger libraries here.

Lastly I thought I would throw in some things I want to do this year

New Years Resolutions:

1) Go to Tahoe for Vacation

2) Go to Iowa and visit friends out in Ames

3) Get my High Blood Pressure under control

4) Chart my productivity and health

5) Take some Photography classes

6) Start completing my degree (Its not going to be completed in a year but I want to start soon)

7) Go hiking and camping at least twice this year.

8) Not have to make up another resolution just so that I have an even number of resolutions….

Thats about it, I shall talk to ya soon.

Movie Review: Moon

So I have been having trouble lately finding things to blog about that aren’t mundane and boring. I also cant spend all day writing about the things I do at work, not enough time to write the posts… So I saw this great movie recently, Moon and I am going to write about that.

Moon
Moon

The movie revolves around the life of an Astronaut Sam Bell working on a Lunar mining facility. He signed a contract for a 3 year stint working mining H3 (Tritium/Hydrogen 3). This is the new fuel source of the future which powers the Fusion plants of the US and abroad. The movie spends all but the last 5-10 minutes centralized around 2 characters, Sam and the automated System GERTY (Kin of the HAL 9000 from 2001: space Odyssey). The glory of this movie is in its simplicity. There is no alien or supernatural phenomenon, the director is leading us through the last 2 weeks of Sam’s contract as he is introduced to a very awkward and perplexing situation.

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Quick Post – DataCenter Pics

We have been working on building/migrating to a new DC for the past few months and this week the work has really started. I dont have pics of the latest systems I have racked, but the below photos are from earlier this month. I will be posting more photos as the building goes on. Currently I am only able to use the camera on my phone, so you are stuck with so-so quality.

Enjoy,

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