Memories of Cisco Live II – Berlin 2016
Getting a session at Cisco Live is not a given, even for a Principal TME. I started at Cisco in...
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Memories of Cisco Live
The last Cisco Live I attended was in Barcelona in January 2020. As I was in the airport heading home, I was reading news of a new virus emerging from China. I looked with bemusement at a troop of high-school-age girls who all...
Read MoreHow not to do Internet Connectivity
My first IT job was at a small company in Novato, California, that designed and built museum exhibits. At the time most companies either designed the exhibits or built them, but ours was the only one that did both. You could...
Read MoreNetstalgia: Bad Timing
After I left TAC I worked for two years at a Gold Partner in San Francisco. One of my first customers there was one of my most difficult, and it all came down to timing. I was dispatched to perform a network assessment of a...
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Why I don’t wear Airpods
I have written more than once (here and here, for example) about my belief that technological...
Read MoreStay away from OOP
I’ve been revising my Cisco Live session on IOS XE programmability, and it’s made me think about programming in general, and a particular idea I’ve been embarrassed to admit I loathe: Object Oriented...
Read MoreTAC Tales #20: Crash, burn, and exit
I’ve mentioned before that, despite being on the Routing Protocols team, I spent a lot of time handling crash cases in TAC. At the time, my queue was just a dumping ground for cases that didn’t fit into any other...
Read MoreThe tech industry and the worship of the new
“Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.” – Ogden Nash The book The Innovator’s Dilemma appears on the desk of a lot of Silicon Valley executives. Its author, Clayton...
Read MoreBefore the Internet: The Bulletin Board System II
In my last post, I discussed the BBS and how it worked. (It would be helpful to review, to understand the terminology.) In this post, I have resurrected, in part, the BBS I used to run from 1988-1990. It was called “The...
Read MoreVintage DDoS
With Coronavirus spreading, events shut down, the Dow crashing, and all the other bad news, how about a little distraction? Time for some NetStalgia. Back in the mid 1990’s, I worked at a computer consulting firm called...
Read MoreCleared for nothing
I was working at Juniper when the CIO asked me to apply for a government security clearance. There were a number of hacking attempts on our network, and a security clearance would make me eligible for briefings from the...
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