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.

My new company website (www.glenscomputers.com)

Those of you who know me will already be aware of my various money making ‘ventures’ or schemes as I like to call them. Given my interest in computers, a few years back I decided to begin providing computer sales/consultancy in my local area.

A few years later now and the business is looking pretty decent for something that I just run alongside my uni studies. I must say for anybody thinking about taking the plunge and going solo, its definitly a fairly relaxing way to live.

Over the past few weeks I have been working on the company website which you can find at www.glenscomputers.com or .co.uk. Although I am moving away soon, I recently used the company as part of a group project at uni. The basic outline of the project was to startup and run a company providing some sort of service to the public – the lesson to be learned is obviously how difficult it is to run a business.

The project was handed in today and I think should raise a few eyes with the kind of money earned for the small number of hours involved. For the few hours of work I do a week I end up making a considerable amount more than my friends doing part-time work in local shops, plus who knows what might happen in the future, as the constant success of the company means the size jobs are getting bigger and bigger.