One day left- then the exam.
I must say – the workload and effort for this course is a lot more than for the ITIL v2 Managers cert; there is a lot more reading, homework, mock-exam question taking and general research needed. Also piling on is the ‘body of knowledge’ that is assumed from the v2 Manager exam.
I’m in Brisbane – at the end of day one of my ITIL v3 Managers bridge course.
Phew. I’m tired. Just like the training for the v2 Managers Certificate last year (here, the exam here and results just before new year.)
The training and exam are for the ITIL v3 Managers Certificate. That gives me the ‘ITIL Expert’
The ‘ITIL Expert’ is the new description for the ITIL v3 Diploma; also an update on the Intermediate modules for the direct route – they are slowly being rolled out later this year and into 2009. I wouldn’t expect to see the Managing across Lifecycle until maybe March 2009.
The other interesting point is that the ‘Advanced Level’ in the diagram doesn’t exist yet.
I travelled wearing my black Ximian staff shirt; then I got stopped in the airport by a Gnome fanboy who told me that the Ximian Desktop rocked!
I got on my plane in San Francisco on Friday night – watching the last of the fireworks.
It’s now Sunday morning and I’m sitting in the domestic terminal in Sydney waiting for my flight to Brisbane.
That’s the worst part of the travel west and crossing the dateline – there’s a day lost from my life.
Testing WordPress 2.6 beta 1 on the this blog.
Upgrade worked well; no major issues so far.
One point to note – publishing via XML-RPC (i.e using a blogging client such as Windows Live Writer) is disabled by default. You have to turn it on.
If you don’t then WLW throws an error:
Server Error –32601 Occurred server error. requested method blogger.getUsersBlogs does not exist
I’m taking the Connector bus again to work. An earlier start to set up for todays meetings; but it’s still a lot easier than the commute.
On another green note – composting starts today in my building. All of the cups, plates etc are moving to compostable paper from polystyrene. Good news.
Urg.
I’m getting pestered with recruiters leaving me voicemail spam.
I’ve just started using Topo Explorer – and to be honest it’s one of the most bug-ridden pieces of code I’ve seen in a long time.
It looks evident that a ‘date for ship’ was set; product out of the door regardless of quality, feature completeness or usability.
I’ve been logging issues in the forum; issues include high CPU and RAM utilisation; corrupted profiles; IE errors – and lots and lots of half-finished usability features.
More concerning is that the username and password for the Topo web service are stored in clear text in an xml doc in the local profile. This user name and password are tied to the users email address, contact details and most importantly credits and purchase history for the Topo Super Quad maps. Very poor.
More blogs on TechNet – mainly around the new Configuration Manager Service Pack 1 and the start of my introductions to the System Center Alliance.
I’m in the same position now as when blogging at Novell – which blog gets the updates…
I’m probably going to post work specific at the TechNet site and bring an extract into this blog. Any thoughts on that?
I’ve still got a lot of blogs in the hopper. Here’s the top of the list so far:
That will probably keep me busy in the next six weeks!
Last weekend it was really wet and windy – urg. We had quite a few inches of rain over a few days, the garden was very wet.
The wind was blowing the trees around the house a lot; the neighbours continue to be worried about the risk of a tree coming down and damaging the house.
Saturday we had four or five very short power outages – ranging between power dips to about 30 seconds without power. The UPS systems coped really well with the load. Now the Vonage and DSL are all under the UPS coverage we didn’t lose a single system.
I also added the Tivo and Media Center server in the home theatre to the UPS coverage with a smaller, non-rackable unit.
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