Bitterjug’s blog

Didn’t see the lunar eclipse, but caught this nice snap of the moon in the trees.

A mothy midnight snack Yum!
In case you can’t work it out, this is the under-side of a geko who was parked on my kitchen window one evening while I prepared my supper and he ate his.

This is the trout tree restaurant, where Christine took Penny, Jonny and i for lunch when we visited her.

What a fantastic place: its the biggest tree house, erm, tree restaurant I’ve ever seen. There are many different levels and floors with tables on and they are connected by walkways and stair cases with canvas roofs. […]

Or more accurately, table tennis without a table.

I told you this Cisco training is turning us into a bunch of cabbages.

While on the subject of ping and pong, I sshed to bitterjug.com the other day and pinged back to the firewall here at college. The average round-trip time for packets from Tala, Kenya to Haight […]

Turns out we’re not the only people who have been driven completelyl bonkers by Cisco router configuration: check this out!

Like Spike Milligan’s Silly Old Baboon, I put on a spurt last week, and got to the end of semester three of the CCNA stuff. Then I broke loose from college and went traveling with Penny and Jonny. We visited Christine in Nanyuki, which was fab, and then to lake Naivasha and Hell’s Gate National […]

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This week has been the first week ro, rather, a kind of pre-week, of Cisco CCNA training for me and the other IT teachers at Holy Rosary College. The trainers can’t come until next monday but if our training lasts two weeks from then, we will still […]

setlogo(”dr.bjlogo.png” Once upon a time, domestic entertainment systems that received broadcast audio programmes were called wirelesses. At that time the word radio had a technical connotation and was used for experimental things done by boffins.
Later, the word radio came to be associated with the consumer gadget (I suspect this came with the development […]

setlogo(”dr.bjlogo.png” OK, I’ve waited long enough for this. Nothing official from the University of London yet, but as of today I have had confirmation from the internal examiner that he has approved for them to make the award with no further examination. Since I now believe I will not have to make any […]