Random Phobias

Eleven random phobias (number 6 is my favourite):

11. Ornithotakuphobia - Fear of having a bird fly into your house and take a crap on your Anime figurines and toys.

10. Hypnojediphobia - Fear of being victim of Jedi Mind Tricks.

9. Rectoriaaphobia - Fear of being financially ruined by an file-sharing lawsuit.

8. Seplopizzaphobia - Fear that the year-old pizza that’s decaying in the corner will become sentient.

7. Chrometoramophbia - Fear of spending too much money on RAM.

6. Megaduophobia - The fear of any number other than 0 or 1.

5. Codexplodaphobia - Fear that the one line of code you changed will completely screw up the program or entire application.

4. Wipadiskaphobia - The fear of erasing your holiday photos from the camera before you copied them to PC.

3. Scrudbywinnaphobia - The fear of Windows crashing before get a chance to save.

2. Russophobophobia - In Soviet Russia, phobias fear you!

1. Botanophagophobia - Fear of eating vegetables or plants, unless they’ve been deep-fried beforehand.

My compliments to http://www.intelliot.com/blog/archives/2004/10/24/geek-phobias/

Thank you wordpress.org

So finally wordpress.org realised that nobody wants their blog to be hosted at yourblogname.wordpress.org so they finally have added a feature allowing me to redirect my markmckillop.com domain to the wordpress one (it seemed they put a lot of effort into preventing any workarounds from doing the same thing).

Anyway, given its a new year im going to try and start as I hope to proceed - first join the gym and secondly to keep blogging (its quite therapeutic), although im not sure how interesting a narration of my life really is?!?

So in the past few months I have been training with Cisco in Amsterdam. Since August im sure ive sat through more training than a lot of people do in their working career, and we haven’t reached the halfway point yet. In the past few months i’ve taken the new Cisco CCNP track as well as having passed CCDA and CCDP.

It’s going to be an interesting year, with a lot of travel involved so im looking forward to seeing a bit of the world. In January ive been given the opportunity to help out at the Cisco Networkers event in Cannes, France (http://www.cisco.com/global/EMEA/networkers/2007/index.shtml). Following this I will be working with Cisco in the UK for 3 weeks in February/March and again in May time.

In the summer time I will be spending a few days in Vegas before hopefully moving up the coast to San Francisco for a few days. Who knows this year might be the year I finally get to stand on the slopes of L’Alpe D’Heuz and watch the Tour De France (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHJErrp4eOw). I’ve been dying to try this climb for so many years but currently I think I could possibly die as the fitness levels are pretty low.