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Corporate Jargon and Argle Bargle

Read­ing Time: 3 min­utes “I think we invent jar­gon because it saves times talk­ing to one-anoth­er.

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Some Thoughts on Cisco Live Orlando, 2018

Read­ing Time: 4 min­utes Edi­tor’s Note: This is a guest post by my won­der­ful wife, Jen­nifer Bryson

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Uila: Visions of the Future

Read­ing Time: 5 min­utes If it’s true that a pic­ture is worth a thou­sand words, then nascent soft­ware com­pa­ny Uila has writ­ten a nov­el with their break­out soft­ware prod­uct for mon­i­tor­ing, and per­form­ing root cause analy­sis on, vir­tu­al­ized and phys­i­cal net­work infra­struc­ture, bridg­ing the gap between both.

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Living the Command Line Dream with Mutt

Read­ing Time: 6 min­utes It prob­a­bly stems from how long I have been using com­put­ers, and what my first com­put­er inter­faces looked like, but I have been enam­ored of com­mand line inter­faces since, well, for­ev­er.

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Glue Networks Changes the Automation Game

Read­ing Time: 3 min­utes “Sim­plic­i­ty is the ulti­mate sophis­ti­ca­tion.” Clare Boothe Luce

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Cisco Live 2016 Wrap-up

Read­ing Time: 4 min­utes The 2016 Cis­co Live con­ven­tion has just wrapped up, and I felt I should write a post-con­ven­tion arti­cle as my own cathar­tic way of send­ing it out with a bow on top.

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A Wendy’s Cheeseburger, Hepburn on my iPhone, and cancer

Read­ing Time: 9 min­utes “__ In my heart, I will always be the girl with­out the met­al, and you will always be the boy with all his bits.

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Brocade Builds a Team of Visionaries

Read­ing Time: < 1 minute http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/datacenter/brocade-builds-a-team-of-visionaries.html

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Packet Pushers Podcast and Network Field Day 7

Read­ing Time: 2 min­utes “I think of myself as some­thing of a con­nois­seur of pro­cras­ti­na­tion, cre­ative and dogged in my approach to not get­ting things done.

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The Writing Process as Photography

Read­ing Time: < 1 minute I’m cur­rent­ly work­ing on mul­ti­ple writ­ing projects, as well as look­ing for­ward to begin­ning a new, dif­fer­ent gig tomor­row, so my office is a bit messy.

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Choice or the Illusion of Choice

Read­ing Time: < 1 minute I recent­ly wrote an arti­cle for searchS­DN at TechTar­get on the sub­ject of choice in the SDN mar­kets.

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On Buggy Whips and Restlessness

Read­ing Time: 3 min­utes Two roads diverged in a yel­low wood,

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Cisco Modeling Labs (<span class="caps">CML</span>)

Read­ing Time: < 1 minute The prod­uct for­mer­ly known as VIRL has been rebrand­ed and is slat­ed for release in the first half of 2014.

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Network Field Day Calendar

Read­ing Time: < 1 minute For those of you who under­stand what Tech Field Day is, and want to fol­low this week’s events, feel free to use this cal­en­dar to track the events.

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Burnout Redux

Read­ing Time: 3 min­utes Late­ly I have been strug­gling with career burnout.

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<span class="caps">SDN</span> Explained

Read­ing Time: < 1 minute Soft­ware Defined Net­work­ing Explained: type­def struct net­work {

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On Writing

Read­ing Time: 3 min­utes So, you want to be a writer?

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Cisco Live and Social Media Redux

Read­ing Time: < 1 minute A few peo­ple you might rec­og­nize, includ­ing yours tru­ly, are fea­tured here in a video for Cis­co Live.

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The <span class="caps">API</span> Obsession

Read­ing Time: 4 min­utes Edi­tor’s Note: Any resem­blance to per­sons liv­ing or dead, known or unknown, read about, heard about, talked about, dreamt about (just once, don’t ask) not intend­ed.

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<span class="caps">SDN</span> in the Enterprise

Read­ing Time: < 1 minute I recent­ly wrote a mul­ti-part blog series for Cis­co and, as we know, while it may seem like the writ­ing is all of the work, get­ting the word out is at least as hard.

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#<span class="caps">CLUS</span> 2012 Photos

Read­ing Time: < 1 minute Because we are com­ing up so quick­ly on Cis­co Live 2013 in Orlan­do, and because it is a Sun­day evening and I can­not find a sin­gle thing I am moti­vat­ed to write about, I decid­ed to build a pho­to gallery of some of my pho­tos from last year’s Cis­co Live con­fer­ence in San Diego.

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DisneyWorld Discounts for <span class="caps">CLUS</span> Attendees

Read­ing Time: < 1 minute My wife and I were review­ing our post-Cis­co Live plans (hint: we’re Dis­ney junkies) and came across a nifty deal that we were unaware of.

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Cisco Networkers/Live Breaking News

Read­ing Time: < 1 minute Trans­form­ers

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The Burnout — An Engineer Becomes Disillusioned

Read­ing Time: 4 min­utes The Burnout “You don’t burn out from going too fast.

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Open Letter to a Failed Job Applicant

Read­ing Time: 3 min­utes “Life is hard. It’s hard­er if you’re stu­pid.

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The Winter of my Discontent

Read­ing Time: 3 min­utes “If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you can­not learn any oth­er way.

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Email Facts of Life

Read­ing Time: 3 min­utes In light of some recent emails, Face­book and Twit­ter updates, and pan­icked calls from the user com­mu­ni­ty at large, I thought it was about time to res­ur­rect this time-worn–and some­what hackneyed–screed on email.

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Musings on Storage

Read­ing Time: 3 min­utes I know I haven’t exact­ly been fill­ing the blog-space with use­ful tid­bits, ran­dom ram­blings, or mus­ings on clown psy­chol­o­gy late­ly.

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<span class="caps">ADVICE</span> <span class="caps">FOR</span> <span class="caps">THE</span> <span class="caps">NEOPHYTE</span> <span class="caps">IT</span> <span class="caps">ASPIRANT</span>

Read­ing Time: 4 min­utes After 17 years in the indus­try I have decid­ed that it is time to pass down some advice to the new­er entrants in to the field of Infor­ma­tion Tech­nol­o­gy.

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Cisco Live 2010 Photos

Read­ing Time: < 1 minute Just a brief recap of Cis­co Live 2010 in pho­tos:

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Cisco Live!

Read­ing Time: < 1 minute I just want­ed to drop a quick note here to let every­one know that I plan on blog­ging a lit­tle more fre­quent­ly this week, as I’ll be in Las Vegas for the annu­al North Amer­i­can Cis­co con­fer­ence: Cis­co Networkers/Live.

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Nostalgia

Read­ing Time: < 1 minute So, nos­tal­gia about com­put­ers and the “good ole’ days” gets strong with me when­ev­er I turn on my old Apple II, or pull out any old mag­a­zines from the ear­ly 80’s or 90’s.

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Cisco Live 11 Schedule

Read­ing Time: < 1 minute Every­one has been post­ing their sched­ules for Cis­co Live to Twit­ter, Face­book and wher­ev­er else, so I thought I’d bet­ter jump in with the cool kids and pub­lish mine as well.

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<span class="caps">ASA</span> <span class="caps">TU</span> Redux

Read­ing Time: 3 min­utes Edi­tor’s Note: If you haven’t already, check out the first install­ment in this–hopefully not ongoing–series at http://blog.

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Passing the Written

Read­ing Time: 3 min­utes Pass­ing the CCIE R&S Writ­ten (350–001)

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Random Thoughts

Read­ing Time: 4 min­utes Random (and not so deep) Thoughts by Some Clown I haven’t been writ­ing a lot late­ly, most­ly due to a com­bi­na­tion of my work and study sched­ule.

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Vacation is over. Now get y’er ass back to work

Read­ing Time: < 1 minute Well, it’s over. Vaca­tions always seem way too short.

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Shanghai Dreaming…

Read­ing Time: < 1 minute Wow I’ve been busy late­ly. I real­ized this not just from how I feel and by look­ing at my meet­ing cal­en­dar, but also because I just noticed the month that has gone by since my last post­ing.

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