Thank you dougal for pointing out this great post. My previous post came from del.icio.us, and I think with my aside type hack on my theme it looks cool; granted the actual post needs some customization, but I’ll just let the brains that power del.icio.us sort that out 
It’s a shame it’s not an important exam, but the satisfaction remains the same. I’m planning to make this year quite exam heavy so I don’t suppose I’ll see this again so excuse me as I revel in my own smugness !
I’ve been thinking hard (i.e. before I posted this), and really don’t think I’ve received 100% in a formal exam before; the results in the screen shot are for Cisco’s IOS Discovery Assessment, ok yeah there was only 13 questions but hey, 100% is 100% 
By Philip Zimmermann
Secure Voice over IP: Zfone
14 Mar 2006 – I’ve just released Zfone, a new product that takes a new approach to make a secure telephone for the Internet.
I think it’s better than the other approaches to secure VoIP, because it achieves security without reliance on a PKI, key certification, trust models, certificate authorities, or key management complexity that bedevils the email encryption world. It also does not rely on SIP signaling for the key management, and in fact does not rely on any servers at all.
This looks like it might be quite cool, shame I’m not using linux at work any more, I’ll have to wait ’til this eve to have a play
I link to google all the time (e-mails, web pages etc), one of the annoying things is that the URL is getting longer and longer…
This is what I mean: Your friends looking for foobar, you know there’s loads on google, so you search for foorbar, you then forward the link which looks like this….
http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2005-09,GGGL:en&q=foobar
nice… NOT ! (Look, it doesn’t even fit on the page properly !)
So here’s the same thing but shorter…
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=foobar
aah much nicer
I guess this post is mainly for me to remember, but hopefully it’ll brighten up someone else’s day to !
For years, people have said, this year, the next best thing will be VOIP ! Hummm, with these too big players taking an interest may be 2006 will be year of the VOIP !
Ok, so I’ve moved jobs, the first thing that’s massively different is that I can’t use Linux :’( – the new place has load of custom fat client windows apps (help-desk & crm) so I can’t dump windows.
Now this post isn’t a Linux vs windows rant, more, a note about how it’s effecting me. To start with, I’ve been using evolution for so long that I’ve actually forgotten how to use outlook !!!!!! Other stuff is IM & RSS readers, I’m using thunderbird because I can’t find a suitable replacement for lifera , and MSN it’s got adverts all over it, back to gaim I think !
What’s most noticeable about going back to windows is that I’m working more, using Linux at work seemed to distract me, because I have my web development stuff on my machine, and RSS feed me with cool Linux things to check out I was never ‘bored‘…. notice how nothings changed on this site for a while ?
At least I can find solitude at home, fedora core 5 is out in a month, and I’m really looking forward to putting my new amd64 thru’ it’s paces, and for the time being the dell laptop work have given me can stay windows; although thinking aloud I might have enough RAM to run vmware player so I could move the windows stuff to that, although if I end up using the vmWindows more it’s kind a pointless running Linux.
Ho-hum, one good thing of using windows is that I can compare google desktop to beagle !
del.icio.us is probably my most used online service (other than mail – of course )
I’ve just changed jobs, it’s going to be interesting to see how this effect’s my blog, it’s already held up the release of a new theme I’ve done (because I haven’t been able to finish the testing)… anyway it’s important to me to keep saving interesting stuff online, hence I mention del.icio.us !
I’ve moved to a cisco partner, type company thing, so you’ll definitely notice my tags including more & more cisco !
I hope some of the links are useful for someone else !
