OK, I’m in a very contemplative mood here and NO I’m not about to give away all my possessions but sometimes it’s important to put material gain into perspective.
People always talk about reputations…
I’ll further Socrates point by saying that one way to preserve a good reputation is not to engage in any activity where you perceive that your reputation may be damaged regardless of your performance. In IT this is critical as there is often a huge mismatch between the expectations of customers/clients and developers.
Yesterday, R & I went to see the tall ships race in Waterford harbour in South east of Ireland, where I live. One of our competitors created the website for the waterford leg of the race and credit where credit’s due, it’s very nice indeed. I used my phone to grab the shot below from the crow’s nest of the indonesian ship. There was a surreal party atmosphere on board this boat and I can strongly recommend anybody attending to competition to check out their easy mix of live song and dance, indonesian beer. In our litigious age it was great fun to be allowed to climb up the rigging with R. A word of warning however. The crewmen were dimunitive in stature and my size 13s found it a little bit difficult to find footholds in the rigging. This led to a few hairy moments 60 foot over the River Suir.
I’ve just gotten NTL broadband at home, signing up for the 3Mbps offering which is very nice indeed. So far I’m seeing download speeds of around 70 kbps which is a bit slow to be honest but I understand that the service isn’t quite working to maximum capacity yet. I’m willing to wait. It’s worth it after 3 successive wireless broadband providers failed to hook me up citing the usual reasons of
Anyway, the NTL cable modem is neat and tasty and hooks nicely up to my linksys wireless router. However, a word of warning. If you want to retrofit a wireless router to your installation you may have to MAC spoof as the DHCP lease for your location is obviously based on MAC. My linksys router supports this via “cloning”. NTL installation staff aren’t exactly clueful on this front so you’ll have a lot of messing around to do if don’t pick up the problem straight away. Other than that’s it’s a straight “obtain IP automatically” installation. A word of warning about the Linksys WRT54G router though. The firmware upgrade to v 3.1 is essential for security reasons and its interoperability with NETGEAR 54g cards is less than sensational for anything less than basic WEP. (it doesn’t work)So kids my router is mac restricted, much good it will do me