How fast is yours...?

Check out this broadband speed-testing site :

Floor it!

Really bad quality short video of me accelerating up the M5 in the Cerbera - watch out - it flips to one side part way through (not the car!) as I turned the phone round! You'll just have to crane your neck!

Don't forget to turn the sound up...

As good today as it's always been...

I just spent the entire day (virtually) listening to Saxon (http://www.saxon747.com)

For those of you who are not familiar with their work, Saxon were a heavy metal band who burst on to the rock scene in 1980. I went to see them live at the Odeon in Taunton in that year (I was 16 or 17) and they were amazing.

Listening to the albums 'Strong Arm of The Law' and 'Wheels of Steel' today brought it all back. The speed, the power and the unbridled energy in each track still does the business 27 years later! Only AC/DC tops it (in my humble opinion). And the lyrics? Well, only Biff Byford could belt out the line: "on a blue sea of denim" in the track 'Heavy Metal Thunder' and make it sound brilliant.

It seems they have a new album out - cool.

If you remember them (or even if you don't) I suggest you do yourself a favour and download the tracks immediately.

Saxon - as good today as it's always been.

Jealous yet?

I've moved into my last (and finest) hotel: Cidade de Goa (http://www.cidadedegoa.com/)

It's hot and sunny, peaceful and relaxed.

and, somewhere nearby, under a tree,
there's a hammock with my name on it...

as they say here,
"the path to enlightenment often lies in the midst of chaos"

Quest Update: Cisco CCNA: Fail :-(

Ok, so the run of exam passes has ended right on the last one!

What a pig of an exam that was. Pass mark is 85% (I got 796). I completely flunked one of the simulations and then panicked a bit as I was running out of time.

Oh well, I'm not going to be beaten by it - I will retake in a couple of weeks.
So that's it, all courses exams have been completed. I'm cream-crackered. Off to 5* hotel now.

Now where's that sunbed...

And today's lesson is...

Any ideas what this is all about? Go on have a guess!
My brain has now melted and is dripping out of my left ear.

Quest Update: MCSE: Messaging 2003 !!

Just took and passed the final exam on my MCSE Messaging 2003 track - Designing a Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Organization (exam 70-285) . Scored 850 (pass mark 700).

It was one of those irritating exams with huge long-winded scenarios that provide too much information to try to confuse you. I don't like those much so was happy to get through it.

So that's secondary objective achieved. I am now an MCSE Messaging 2003. Cool!
That was my 10th exam. I start the CCNA course tomorrow so just one more exam to take next Tuesday...