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when it rains … it pours

I’m a network geek by trade. I build networks.

Two years back I decided to take on a bit of extra work by teaching. I’ve been teaching for the last two school years – the subject being computer architecture. I’ve also taught PC maintenance and introductions to computing. Teaching is fun, sometimes it really stretches the mind.

Well….the term is coming to a close and I’ve been asked by entirely another source to do some training over the summer – not teaching – training. Turns out that this company is meant to be providing Mac OS X training and they don’t know anyone who knows enough about the system to actually do the training. That’s where I come in.

Oh…and I have to give a 1 hour lecture at the local university about IT Strategy.

Makes me think that if I was at a loss I could probably make the readies in teaching, training and lecturing….

Toys for the boys

I’m looking at buying a new palmtop. My Newton was retired about a year or so ago and I’ve been using a PalmVx since then and frankly I’m not that impressed. It does the job but whwre’s the fun. I remember having lots of fun with the Newton.

Anyway…it’ll either be a Casio E125 or an ipaq H36xx. Not sure and it’ll be a couple of months before I can afford the bugger but that’s the plan anyway…

diablo…oni…work…training

The training course was great – the Passport 8000 really is a neat piece of kit. Beats the knickers off anything else out there.

Off work tomorrow…dentists appointment…ewww…

Oni….ack…i’m going to have to mail order this…I’ve waited enough…

Diablo II….’er indoors is whacking ehr way through it. With the speakers attached to the iMac it makes some pretty sounds…

Anyway…just starting to cook. Better go stick the turkey on…

tired

Just spent four days in Maidenhead. Without a ‘net connection.

Over four hundred emails awaited for me.

Just. Finished. Reading. Them.

Sheesh…

never miss it til it’s gone

My ISDN is down….

*insert long belaboured sigh*

Which means that, for the time being, I’m stuck with a little modem router with a 56K modem and refuses to connect at anything faster than 33K. I know it’s not the quality of the lines – it’s the ISP.

Last night I was at a friends house (I mentioned him, Paul) and he has a Cable modem runnign at a spritely 512Kbits. Compared to my ISDN that’s depressing (a massive 128Kbits) but compared to modem hell I’m feeling certainly hard done by.

Course, I should count myself lucky. I live in a church, in a field. I should feel lucky I have a phone at all. Better check NTLBroadband (uh..nope) BTOpenWorld again…

Holy ****

Jinks! It says yes! Holy ****