Getting back on track

It is now week 7 of SSK12, I’ve submitted my first assignment and I am struggling to get back into a solid study routine following the aftermath of a narrowly avoided disaster at work.

Crappy Birthday to Me!

Well it was my birthday more than two weeks ago but I had to give my family birthday lunch a miss because something major came up at work. Our bloody supplier had been playing silly buggers for a couple of days, and ended up going into liquidation. So we had to switch all the customers […]

A serious disruption

Well, the crap hit the fan at work a few days ago. Our wholesale carrier network had a major outage, no-one could tell us exactly what was going on and customers were offline for over 48 hours. The rumours have been flying thick and fast, particularly on the Whirlpool broadband discussion site. More recently there […]

More time would be great..

I feel I’ve wasted so much time in this unit, the first couple of weeks I was trying to get my head around what I was doing. I’d love to have that time back! Now in week 4 and I have just skimmed through the last of week 2/3.. I have completed five of the […]

Stopping Fake Forum Registrations

Fake forum registrations – why would anyone do it? Most fake registrations include a website link in their profile, which is then published in the forum memberlist when their registration is submitted. Spammers take advantage of this to help improve their search engine ranking (Google is an important search engine which uses ‘relevancy’ to rank […]

Study Chick

A full day of study on Wednesday, lots of reading and thinking about where this study unit is taking me. I was surprised at how well I was absorbing the information, it is exciting to be learning something for the hell of it and feel my brain shifting into gear! Then yesterday I worked. It […]