Matt-J.co.uk : Ramblings

Evening all,

Over a month since my last post, and a lot has happened; however, There is a simple reason why I have not posted for so long;

This was always meant to be a technical blog, covering cool stuff I have been working with or pondering, or a place to write down reminders of how to config something, more of a random splattering of technical know-how more than anything. I don’t want it to become an oh-so common blurb of personal life crap, where I am, why I am there, what I ate for breakfast, with little or no juicy tech.

I don’t have time to be keeping that kind of blog and so, If I have nothing particularly blog worthy, I won’t just be posting for the hell of it to keep my post count up.
There will always be a couple of life related posts that slip through, and so I will be tagging all past and future posts with (at least) ‘tech’ or ‘life’ to allow readers to filter out what they do not want :)

So now, to a very short update to bring us into the present.

Well, I have left Sun Microsystems, my placement ended and I moved out of our amazing house and back to the more livley north :) Once again a big thanks to everyone at Sun, truly amazing people to work with and I have gained so much hands on experience with more cool equipment than you could shake a reasonable sized datacenter at.

I spent two weeks back living back home with my parents, catching up was nice (so was not cooking my own meals every night or doing all my washing :) ). Saw a few freinds from home and enjoyed a few visits to the pub.

Then another move, this time to my new house share in salford, for the final year of my degree. So after two house moves in two weeks, I have now been in my new uni house for a week, finally got everything unpacked, set up and the house is looking pretty good. I’m living with Martin Dave and Sam from uni, so it will be good to chill out with those guys again over a good few beers.

This year promises much more technical bloggery I feel, you should see the house networking config already!

Anyway, so right now, I’m in my new house, and currently trying to find a new job for the year, if anyone know’s of an ISP that needs someone to play with BGP4+ for a year (for a decent wage ;P) let me know ;)

Thanks for still reading after such a drought of input ;P

//Matt