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Bang! Bam!

Matt — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 17:08:20 +0000

Bit of a day today, had some good, had some bad.

I’ll start with the good because I like life that way. I took a Juniper JNCIA-SSL (Juniper Networks Certified Internet Associate – SSL) exam and passed it.

I say I “passed it”, I kinda blew it apart by getting 100% on it, in [...]

The post I’ve been procrastinating over

Matt — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:45:01 +0000

Yes, this is that post, the one that’s been due for about the last year, the one that I keep on putting off because posting this makes it official and I’ll have to actually do it.

I intend to study, attempt, and hopefully gain a CCIE Security certification.

That statement won’t mean anything to [...]

Still here?

Matt — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 14:17:03 +0000

Hello, I haven’t completely neglected this blog, I just have very little going on in life right now so I don’t have anything to write.

While I work out what’s goign to happen with the blog, here’s a picture of a chimp that was on the back of a bottle of Innocent orange juice.

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CCNP – Done

Matt — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 06:24:33 +0000

What a week.

Someone asked me recently why I always take exams when I have time off work. The truth is that I take time off work to do exams, that’s how I roll baby! The only real time I can make for myself to study is on days when I don’t have to [...]

642-845 (ONT) Done

Matt — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:49:40 +0000

Did an ONT exam today, and passed it.

I didn’t enjoy that exam one bit, the preparation material i had which was the Ciscopress ONT official exam certification guide was quite light on some of the areas that the exam covered, some of the software in the exam was based on older versions [...]

CCNP Update Panic

Matt — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:44:48 +0000

I had a bit of a panic today when I spotted an email sent to me a few days ago by Cisco about an update to the CCNP programme. It is quite a significant change, going from four exams to three, and changing all the exam names and wotnot.

What they’re doing [...]

Not a New Years Resolution

Matt — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:24:12 +0000

So, I’m thinking that maybe I should get back to the gym and weight loss stuff. I lost around 3 stone last year, then got bored and lost motivation and put 1 of those back on. So now I need to stop that rot and get back to it.

It ought to be easy [...]

Two down, halfway there

Matt — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:21:04 +0000

Well, without wanting to break the cycle of neglect and despondency, I thought an update was in order to the effect that I passed the exam I had booked for today.

The passing mark was 790 out of 1000, I got 946. However you get 300 just for turning up, which possibly says [...]

Not quite dead (but nearly)

Matt — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:06:58 +0000

It’s been months since I last posted, and you’d be forgiven for thinking that I’d killed the blog off, not really I just haven’t had a lot to say.

I’m busy studying for another exam, ISCW this time, part of the CCNP train. I’m thinking I’ll do the CCNP and then move on, maybe [...]

CCSE

Matt — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:29:37 +0000

On the 22nd May I took and passed the Check Point Certified Security Expert exam. That was one that had been hanging around my neck for about 18 months and I kept putting it off because I wasn’t looking forward to doing it and I preferred to do Cisco exams because they are worth [...]