VLAN configuration can easily become a black art, requiring the classic combination of guru, wizard, and hacker (guru knows “the way”, wizard knows the incantation, hacker knows how to make it all work).
I believe we can do the guru part now, we’ll need to consult with the wizard when he returns.

and now i can get my american citizenship!!

uma

Uma was given the Iowa tests of basic skills in April 2008. At the time of testing she was in second grade at the B academy.
Uma earned a composite grade equivalent of 5.4 on the level 8 test. This means that her test performance was approximately the same as that of a typical student in the fifth grade at the end of the fourth month. Uma's Composite national percentile rank of 99 means that she scored higher than 99 percent of the second grade students nationally. Her overall achievement appears to be high for second grade.

how did I get to be this lucky?

Excellence

that's what is is about.. not competence, not winning, not accolades. Not about seeing adulation in the eyes of the admirers, not about acceptance, not about fame and power.. it is about the satisfaction of pushing yourself farther and farther -- and learning and growing and being better than the best you could be ..
i should never forget this...

oh Mimi!

Mimi -- better known as Mariah Carey, this month broke Elvis Presley's record for the most Billboard No. 1 hits by a solo artist ...

http://www.slate.com/id/2190184/


Here's to the scrappy girl, with a cloud of curly hair, who sang vision of love and who, all of us fell in love with...

The IPL --

...

It has been a busy year -- but suddenly i feel restless-- and if I know myself-- it can never be good, this restlessness-- it always leads to trouble-- dissatisfaction- the where am I headed, question. Major upheavals in life have resulted from this. I feel trapped -- trapped in what, I don't know. All the chains are of my own making and all of them readily worn... I have shed entanglements to stay this way.. but a new chain is wearing me down.. part of me tells me this is what it is to be grown up -- but somehow-- it irks me.
commitment phobia was alien to me -- I committed, with joy and it scratched my soul to bits -- I must have been seeking something, I tell myself. The tattered soul convinced me that whatever I needed was mine to give-- mine to allow-- and then I stopped.
this latest act of commitment seems unnatural -- it is weighing me down --
there is a fight within -- will i stay or will i leave?
time will tell i guess.

Loathe , actually

This article made my day ---

It is the middle of the week and the work is up to its frenzied pace, as if to make up for all those easy days of snow and holiday cheer.
When this --
http://movies.msn.com/new-on-dvd/feature-article/?news=298765

I was tickled at her utter hatred of all things fuzzy and cute. Her list includes-
Pretty Woman, Sleepless in Seattle, The Way We Were, Four Weddings and a Funeral and My big fat Greek Wedding--
Today, I agreed with her --her misanthropic attitude in the month of pink and red hearts made me strangely cheerful.
Its triage on my calendar next --- there will be bloodshed!

"it is a malaise with us Indians,

we have far more opinions than information"

-Shabana Azmi