Like a lot people I regularly have the problem at the end of a workday or even a workweek answering the question, “What did I do?” let alone what “What did I accomplish?” To find an answer for these questions I have started to keep a daily journal using both an automated report and a manual entry. Between these two entries I tend to have a good idea of what occurred during my workday and work week.

Lately I’ve been very interested in academic side of computers. Complex systems, Theoretical Computing, and Control Theory are two of my focuses right now. This has come about because I’m getting more interested in how the systems work and how ti measure them, more then how to implement them. My career has been very focus on the implementation then how systems work and can be measured. I’ve never had any sort of formal Computer Science education, making a lot of this new territory to me.

This past month I attended Cisco Live in Orlando, FL with 20,000(?) of my fellow Network/Collaboration/Service Provider/Data Center engineers from all around the world. This was my first time attending, and I had a blast! There are a few themes I won’t talk much about in this post that were big topics at Cisco Live one of which is the Internet of Everything (IoE) as that is well covered, and well is really just Market-ecture-tastic.

I think it makes sense to kick off this blog with a how did I get to where I’m at today. This post covers about 16 or so years (as of posting) of working in IT and Computers and well many years before them as a well….hobbyist. My first introduction to communications, I guess you could say networking, was calling BBSs and eventually installing and playing with BBS software. I learned a lot about modems and dialup communications.