My past rash of posts have mostly focused on hardware, servers, linux and other related devices and I'm glad to say, I'm heading back into development.  Granted, its VB but its development.  So what have I learned in my nearly 6 month absence?  Quite a few things, some of which will change my approach on a variety of things. More...

Having a wide range of experience like I have, you often find yourself back in a land once long forgotten -- today was one of those days.  I returned to very low level network land to which I haven't been in over 8 years.  We've been having a problem with a port on a switch recently, freaking out and disabling itself.  Not just any switch, a cisco 3600 series.  I hold cisco's in high regard, and layer 3 switches are pretty high on the uber w00t-tastic scale, so just seeing this error was a new experience all in and of itself.More...