So it’s been a few weeks since I’ve updated the site. I was finally able to crawl out from under this economy and find some work. First of all, a big thank you to a friend of mine that hooked me up with some consulting work. I really thought this was going to get me through a couple more months of job searching. But then, I got a full time job offer. And then, I got another consulting gig. And THEN, I got ANOTHER consulting gig! Needles to say, I’m quite busty.

In addition to that, I’m still trying to find the time to work on the yard, and study for my CCNA. In fact I just purchased my first Cisco router! It’s a SOHO 817W with Advanced IP Services. Basically this thing does just about every single thing the big boys do, just on a smaller scale.

It’s got:

• Switching with VLANs
• WLAN 802.11b/g
• Stateful Inspection Firewall
• IPSec VPNs
• Intrusion Prevention
•  RIP, OSPF, etc…
• Spanning Tree

And the list just goes on and on…  Basically everything I need to study for the CCNA!

Check it out yourself!

 So anyways, hopefully I’ll get caught up and can work on some more tutorial videos.  In fact, I actually have several things I’d like to share.  Maybe I’ll make a few videos setting up the 871W  :)

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A new version of my resume is now online.  I just got back from passing exam 70-501 Microsoft Certrified Technology Specialist: Windows Server 2003 Hosted Environments, Configuring, and Managing.  I really enjoyed the test.  The questions covered a wide variety of topics from not only IIS, but also to include Database servers.  Since the two really go hand in hand, it makes a lot of sense.  Other topics include Network Load Balancing, and both Database and Content Server failover.  Again, completly makes sense.  The only questions I found to be out of scope (in my opinion, it’s listed right on the exam objectives as valid topics) were the questions about automated server deployment services, and SharePoint.

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For added nostalgia I’m going to make my first post the traditional “Hello World“.

Hello World