Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Sometimes We Need not Judge Faces

Sometimes people fake the truth, mutilate reality, lie and hide feelings with logic. Sometimes you think that somebody is bad, untrustful. But you discover by yourself that he wants to help and that he's innocent.I'm worried these times about my transition to the new job. It's not about the job itself, but about making peace with my employer. These times I'm discovering people who are willing to give...

Thursday, December 17, 2009

"It's Who You Know". But I'm OK with That

"What's her background? she studied at INSAT? ok, I have a friend at Divona Telecom. I'll suggest her to him and we'll see what happens". This is a pattern I hear a lot.I remember myself, struggling to have a job after I graduated from college. I remember being the Sys Admin of a small company. I remember how I used to go upstairs and downstairs all day long trying to "fix" everything related to...

It's About to Change

I signed a new contract with an emerging bank, the one I talked about in previous posts. The IT infrastucture is still basic: no routing yet, no VLANs, no IP Telephony. work late most days, with an experienced IT team, being one of the few first people who built the network... I'm going to be the network engineer. It sounds so interesting.However, my current employer doesn't want to release me before...

Tough Choice - part IV

In my previous post "Tough Choice - part III" I talked about a job offer that has been presented to me. It was about computer&network security in a large emerging bank.After I declined it, the Network&Security manager called me a few weeks ago to tell me that an equal opportunity rose, in networking now. I was very happy to hear that. Not only the company is building its network from the ground...

Saturday, December 12, 2009

Improving Memory

I got a famous memory improvement book: How to Develop a Perfect Memory, by Dominic O'Brien. I only tried one technique to remember numbers in my BCMSN exam. It works!For example, I want to remember the Bridge Priority that results after spanning-tree vlan x root primary. It's 24576. Here's how I do it:24: is my birthday.5: there are 5 presents on my birthday table7: 7 guests are sitting in the living...