Came back from France and going back again Wednesday. I seriously doubt many other people are here two months already filling out travel expenses forms. Yes! Note the plural!
I am working now for two months!
Also the twitter tool on the sidebar is not updating. I should really fix that. And speaking of blog related things, I tried move over to MovableType but while trying to test it out I had endless problems with the cgi part of it. So I’m sticking with Wordpress for the time being. However I am fed up with updating it so I will move to some other platform but I just haven’t decided which one yet.
I can’t stop listening to this, it is just so awesome.
Originally I got my mobile from Vodafone, but unhappy with their policy on credit expiring after 30 days (I always lost lots of credit that way) I switched over to O2. After they fumbled the switchover I should of seen the signs. Although I did manage to get the best part of 120 euros worth of free credit from them because of it
Over the last few days, I’ve become fed up since I’ve started using my phone more and more. Sitting down remaining still talk to someone, only for the call to disconnect. People on Vodafone would tell me when they dial me, they hear out of service and so on. I wouldn’t receive calls at all at times. So adios O2. I’ve switched back to Vodafone (Also take a hint O2, their sim switchover pack is free.)
Yesterday I stepped inside Google’s EU headquarters for a SAGE-IE meeting that David Malone was giving on “Possible Questions to ask when Interviewing Sysadmins”
A very good talk considering I’m now at the stage where I’m going to be sending out CV’s for applying for jobs in the whole networking/sysadmin area. I was pleasantly surprised to find I could answer some of the questions in a decent level of detail (considering my experience) while I could give partial answers (Who knew if UDP was being filtered you can send an ICMP unreachable response back, always believed it was a fire and forget protocol, which it is to an extent) to others.
The only one I found myself stumped at was printing in linux/unix because I’ve never used linux/unix before on the desktop long enough to actually set up printing. At the moment this is my current mindset
Servers = Linux/Unix
Desktops = Windows
Before I anger someone, this is my personal view and each to their own.
So I’ve gone and done it, I’ve blown the last of my bank account balance on a new pc. Why? Because I figure there are some seriously good games coming out this year and its time to get back with things. Last time I did anything major with my pc was over 3 years ago. So I think I’ll hop onto the DirectX10 and Vista bandwagon now.
So my Xbox died there recently and is likely out of warrenty (and this is the replacement that died) I decided to try my luck with Xbox support. Gave them a call and a few mintues later I was speaking to a support person who was asking me what the problem was.
Told him the ring of death when I power up and the power supply light is
green. He asked for the xbox serial number, pulled up my details on file and he said he would send me out a shipping label so it could be sent off for free to Germany for it to be repaired/replaced. Nice.
Spent less then 9 minutes on the phone too.
UPDATE: I’ve checked the tracking number and it was in Germany so it can’t be too much longer until I get it back.
For anyone in the hosting business you should be watching out for what SoftLayer do in the market. My experiences with them have been nothing but fantastic. And I just got a very interesting email from Mary which again proves they have to be one of the most top notch places out there. I can’t say what it is yet but its just such a simple and cool idea.
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