In a recent post, I walked through setting up a Netgear LTE cellular modem with Google Fi. Might seem random - but I had a plan for this! In trying to ensure I keep a stable internet connection for work, I eventually led myself down the path of buying a…
This week at Twitter, there was a security incident that allowed access to a number of high profile accounts. The end result was a Bitcoin scam, with every account promising to "double any BTC sent" to them. Twitter has come out fairly quickly to say that the incident…
It's been a crazy couple of months recently. With what began as a temporary lockdown & mandatory work-from-home has now become a question of "Will we ever return to the office"? Luckily I have a decent home office setup, as my job is already primarily work from home.…
Hey there! First thing’s first – Hope all is well with everyone. The past few months have seen all sorts of craziness going on in the world. I’ve been lucky in the sense that my current job role was already well set up to make an…
Things That Helped One of the big things that helped me was just the experience I had prior to starting on the CCIE. My experience going into the studying likely gave me a huge step up compared to if I tried the exam earlier in my career. If I tried…
In the weeks leading up to the lab exam – I felt very unsure of where I was at. On one side, I felt like I was doing pretty well at most of the practice labs I was working on. But on the other side, I felt like I didn’…
Written Exam Finally in early 2019 I gave up on trying to gauge where I was at – and figured it was time to just give the exam a shot. I had already been studying for almost a year and a half, and I was craving some definitive way of…
Now that we’re firmly into 2020 – I finally decided it was about time to get this posted. I actually wrote most of this shortly after passing the exam, but it just sat unedited and collecting dust since them. In about a month, most of the exams will…