Having passed the CCNA last Tuesday in order to drop down to Cork Institute of Technology to do the Cisco Fundamentals of Wireless LANs course, I’m no longer sure that doing either was a good idea. The Skills assesment and Final Exam are now both immenent, all the joking and laughing in the room as stopped, as everyone realises that we have to both. Heres hoping!

On Monday, I arrived in Oporto Airport en route to Aveiro for a meeting of the TORRENT project. Suitably enough, rain was bucketing down when I arrived. The purpose of the meeting is for all of the partners to agree on what we present to the Auditors for the final demonstration and Audit at the end of February. So far things seem to be going ok. That said, we have a lot of work to do before the audit.

Aveiro itself is quite a nice place, with some nice, and very reasonable, resteraunts.

Today we woke up to a sunny morning, and everyone is a bit more cheerful, it looks like it will be a nice day. Hopefully todays meeting will keep everyone in the same good mood!

Just returned from Paris. I was attending the SEINIT EU FP6 Kick off meeting on behalf of TSSG. After the meeting I have the feeling that these guys really mean business.

It looks like I will be spending much of my time on the project doing performance evaluation of IPsec on various hardware platforms and other security related protocols. I’m looking forward to it as i’ve not been getting my hands dirty for a good while. Also when one is working with people of the caliber of Peter Kirstein, somehow one is motivated to perform.