For the love of wiring

We’ve moved into a wireless world, which is too bad for me because I love, more than anything, wiring.  I miss the days of good old Cat 3 cable, T1 lines, and ISDN BRIs.  I miss 66 blocks, punch down tools, cross-connect wire, and tone/probe kits.  And butt sets.  Especially butt sets.  Now I just […]

Painted into a corner

I’ve written before about my years at the San Francisco Chronicle, my first job which was exclusively network engineering.  It was an interesting environment, as this was back in the years before the Internet totally displaced newspapers.  We had printing plants to support, active newsrooms with reporters and photographers, and a massive circulation operation. When […]

Theme Changes

I started this blog in February 2013.  Amazingly, I’m closing in on ten years.  It’s certainly turned out differently than I expected, and I haven’t written as much as I’d liked. In 2016, I hired a company to update the blog and design a new theme.  Maintaining your own WordPress blog is a lot of […]

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 October 2015, and I certainly didn’t expect to present at, or even go to, Cisco Live Berlin in January 2016.  Normally, there are three ways to secure a session at CL: Submit an idea during […]