Archive for the ‘General’ Category

Site Rankings

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

My domain's been around quite some time.. Not exactly like this in its current guise, but I've had the domain for a number of years now. As a result, I've also often become quite frustrated by finding my own ramblings/moans/whinges on Google's listings, in the search for solutions. So here's an ...

Classic XKCD

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

For those of you who don't follow XKCD, you really are missing out. It's just genius, and today's comic really did tickle me.. (Click for a larger image!) This really is a true story, and she doesn't know I put it in my comic because her wifi hasn't worked for weeks. Well, ...

Interesting Statistics

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

This isn't quite work-related, but I feel it is relevant to my performance during term-time... I have happened across some statistics collected "for demographic reasons" by my University's Students Union, as a result of their routine swipe of your student card whenever you show up for any paid night at the ...

Whoops.

Friday, December 21st, 2007

Had a slightly embarrassing problem yesterday, although I'm not entirely sure it's my (our) fault... One of our servers, for historical reasons, is actually hosted in the same rack at UKS as four more; all owned by one of our larger customers. We happen to manage all of these servers, too. Anyway, ...

A rescue mission!

Friday, September 14th, 2007

What a day yesterday! One of our customers has had a very similar primary/secondary DRBD/VMWare system to ours, setup for their London HQ operations. This means, one server has the VMs loaded, whist another sits in a warm fail-over mode, courtesy of DRBD mirroring of the VMs. It's a bit of a ...

Note to self

Monday, September 10th, 2007

Do not write an extremely long e-mail, highlighting the ups and downs of our current VoIP system, and send it to the boss. You will receive an even longer reply. :(

Results!

Sunday, July 1st, 2007

Well, thanks to Ben for pointing out that the University grades are now available from the awful 'Myportal' web page - a labyrinth of dreadfully-designed hyperlinks. The long and short of it is though; I now have the results from my 2nd year modules! They're listed below, highest first (all grades ...

Finding the connection

Monday, June 11th, 2007

It's taken a little time, but this Saturday saw the installation of a BT land line in my flat. It's not going to be used for calls though, no, this is purely for Broadband. And that means, the best broadband I can lay my hands on. I had originally anticipated ordering ...

A ‘rather good muse’ already!

Friday, May 25th, 2007

Today I had a quick walk across Birmingham, just to find my commute bearings a little. Thankfully it looks like I'll be able to traverse the city centre (Jewellery Quarter to Digbeth) in around 30-35 minutes! Some good exercise each day, too! Whilst I was there, I had a quick drool ...

Cisco reading

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

I've got a huge amount of reading ahead of me in the next two (and a bit) weeks. My CCNP 1 and CCNP 2 online exams, as well as the University exams for the corresponding modules (the questions being merely a rip from the online Cisco material, of course) command ...