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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 travel 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 of the software [...]

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 is they’re [...]

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 enough to [...]

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 something for some [...]

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 upwards to [...]

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 something [...]

Still too fat for fit… just

Matt — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:46:26 +0000

Wii Fit that is. On Friday I had acheived one of my major mile stones in this weight loss kick – I had dropped below 150kg so I could get a Wii Fit. Of course when I got the Wii Fit on Saturday and got home I had put some weight on and was over [...]

Two months and a sofa

Matt — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:48:39 +0000

So, I’m now two months into this weght-loss kick, seems to be going ok – I’ve lost 10 kilos, clothes are looser, and the graph is still on a downward trend.

This afternoon I go for an initial consultation at the recreation centre in Bridgend for excercise on referral. My doctor has referred me to them, [...]

New look

Matt — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:55:22 +0000

I was getting a little bored with the old site layout, and was feeling constrained by the single sidebar – the sidebar took up more vertical space than my posts! So I have picked a new theme for the blog.

I’m very happy with the result. It’s a three-column theme so I now have two sidebars [...]