The Setup So there I was, setting up my “command centre” for the 15 hour flight from Sydney to San Jose via San Francisco. I had my Macbook and my iPad fully charged, as well as ye olde print book ready just in case. I idly flipped through the inflight entertainment guide to see what...

Im not sure how many of you follow my wife, @MrsJanitor, on Twitter but we met 7 years ago today. When I asked about our plans for today she surprised me with some information. Ever the romantic I decided to publicly share my love, and thus I present you: And to show just how much she...

Well, now that we’re into February, I guess I should probably do a post about the new website layout I worked on over the Christmas break. Hopefully if your viewing this from my website, as opposed to via an RSS feed, you notice my new theme as well as the amazing new logo provided by...

I have a bee in my bonnet. After my last post full of love and bromance, this one is full of hate and vitriol – and I don’t apologise! We have all seen many presentations on each vendors latest and greatest “fabric” technologies over the past 18 months. It doesn’t matter which vendor, whether the...

Yesterday was possibly one of the proudest days in my professional life. My very good friend Anthony Burke sent me a text message just after 9am to tell me that he had passed his JNCIA-Junos exam. This is a close tie with when he earned his place as a delegate to Network Field Day 4 back...

I don’t know about you, but I am regularly told “You worry too much” or “You don’t need to worry about that”. Sometimes its “What are the chances of that ever happening?”. These are things that Ive heard from many people over the years and the best I can come up with is: “That’s what...

As many of you know, I had the honour and good fortune of being able to take part in beta testing the JNCIE-ENT lab in August of 2011. The day completely wiped me out and I was walking around in a daze for the remainder of that week. While I knew the technologies I was...

Well it appears that I am well on my way to holding onto the title for two years running, and once again, I haven’t posted anything for a couple of months. There have been a lot of changes going on around here in the past few months which have really taken me away from my...

Hey All, I know I have kind of been MIA for the past 3 months. Ivan reminded me recently that I haven’t actually published a single post since September, so I wanted to give a brief “status update”. The last couple of months have included the following: Network Field Day Meeting some of my “Industry...

  Hey everyone, this is just a short blog post to let you know that my good friend, Nick Ryce (@NetDonkey) has moved his blog over to taildrop.net. He has recently featured as a guest blogger with Juniper EMEA where he has written a post on his certification path towards his JNCIE-ENT. Nick was my...