Off-Hook

Now I have earned my 3rd IT/Telecom certification and am on my way towards testing for some of the harder, more highly sought after certs (RHCE, MCSA, JNCIA, CCNA). Basically, I’m using this certification path as a means to fill in gaps in my basic understanding of networking, as well as increase my value in the industry. It’s not enough today to simply know what you’re doing– You must now have proof up front, and the industry standard for that is certifications.

The Network+ exam was actually much more tricky than I thought it’d be. It’s as if it sensed I had a weakness in the area of Apple networks and protocols, so it stuck me with about 4 or 5 complex Apple networking questions. It was also less intense on the OSI model than I was lead to believe it would be. Furthermore, my experience with Unix and Linux came in much more handy than the study material predicted. Overall, I found the test challenging, realistic in its network problem scenarios, and valuable towards making me want to revisit and review what I already know. I’m looking forward to more.

Now, thanx to my buddy bec, I have a new blog toy (well, new to me)…
The very cool audio plugin from 1 Pixel Out. Check it out:

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(one of my favorite little tunes)

Well some of you may have noticed that the tagboard is gone from my sidebar. The depraved, soulless, bottom-dwelling reprobates that fill their abundance of free time with finding new ways to spread spam on my blog finally won out. It occurred to me that I was getting approximately one spam message every other day since I updated the tag board, while actual human users hadn’t left a message on it since 2006. It is obvious that it was good for nothing else BUT spam, so I simply disposed of it.

This is of little importance, of course, but it seemed worthy of mentioning since I had it for so long. Perhaps it would have been more useful on someone else’s blog. If you’re interested in it, feel free to leave a reply and I’ll tell you where I got it and how easy it was to insert the code and style to suit my template. It looked great and really worked, but for my needs became little more than an outlet for sleazeball spammers. Good riddance!

Now you, too, can own that yellow submarine you used to sing about!

Are these cool or what? A little pricey, though… The AP News video I watched price the one-seat mini sub at around $82k and the two-seater around $124k. Still… that’s fairly “affordable” for your very own sub! Check out their site (many more pics and details)!