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!
Busy
I’ve not been posting much of late, been very busy work wise. I did manage to head for the hills for a bit of excercise and we headed up galtymor for the IRTS 144Mhz (2M) Counties Contest.
For some reason, my dad came with us the first time as I told him it would just be a walk, albeit a long one. When I mentioned we would be going up galtymor for the counties contest he invited himself along, as he had never been up Galtymor before. Here is the proof.
Where is my job gone?
The Reg takes a humorous look (depending on your point of view) on the outsourcing of jobs.
Torrent
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!
IPv6 In Europe
I’m in Brussels for the Global IPv6 Launch on behalf of the TSSG. Yesterday I attended the IPv6 Cluster meeting. I though the following observations as to Barriers for IPv6 deployment most interesting.
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GPS V
Last friday night Roy, Junior and myself headed for Kelso in Scotland. Junior and I left Tramore at 19:00 Friday night, headed to Dublin, collected Roy and the Van, headed to Belfast, got the ferry, drove to Kelso, had brekkie, loaded the van and headed back. We got back to Tramore 22:00 Saturday night. I brought my Garmin GPS V along with the maps for Ireland and the parts of the UK we would be travelling through.
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PCsat
Maurice and Stephen rang to wish me happy new year from oz this afternoon, Happy new year to you as well. Seeing as they were drunk and seemed to be enjoying themselves, I rapidly lost interest in writing up notes for the class I’m teaching. Now what? Looking around the room I was wondering what to do, and, seeing as I have a radio experimenters license, I thought I would do some radio experimenting.
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GPS V
I finally got a bit of a play with it the last few days, its a pretty cool piece of kit, the basemap alone is impressive. I’ll be heading to Scotland with Roy after christmas to collect a few bits and pieces belonging to his Car, so we will check it out a bit more thoroughly on that trip.
Couzins, I’ll not be making it to Dublin Sunday night as I’m working monday, also its looking like I’ll be spending most of christmas working, so I can’t say I’m looking forward to the holidays, oh well.
Santa
Ok, I’m weak. Mark bought a Garmin GPS V a few months back, so earlier on (while herself was watching corrie), I went and ordered myself a brand new fudgie. Between that and the Wellbrook Loop antenna should keep me out of the pub for a bit over Christmas. Hopefully I’ll get the outside of the house sorted over the holidays as well. I still haven’t drilled holes for the overflow pipes, next weekend……
SEINIT
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.