{"id":299,"date":"2007-10-17T19:29:07","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T18:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=299"},"modified":"2007-10-17T19:29:07","modified_gmt":"2007-10-17T18:29:07","slug":"this-week-i-have-been-mostly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=299","title":{"rendered":"This week I have been mostly&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week I have been mostly doing the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Reading my CCNA books<\/strong>.  They cover a sod of a lot of material.  I&#8217;ve nearly finished reading the first (&#8220;easiest&#8221;) of the two.  A lot of the first half was unfamiliar material and I was beginning to think I might not be able to see it through, but a large middle section emblazened with the note &#8220;This bit&#8217;s really important and there will be a lot about it on the exam&#8221; was about stuff that I basically already knew inside out: IP networking, addressing, subnets, masks, routing&#8230;  I feel slightly less daunted by the whole thing now;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Getting an invitation to the House Of Commons<\/strong>.  Well, OK, not <em>directly<\/em>.  I&#8217;ve been invited to a dinner to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of one of our work IT suppliers and the &#8216;do&#8217; is taking place at the &#8220;Members and Strangers&#8221; bar at the House Of Commons, hosted by some random MP.  Quite what relationship he has to the company in question I have no idea.  Anyway, I probably can&#8217;t go, given that it&#8217;s a Saturday night up in London.  The invitation says &#8220;Dress: Formal.  Gentlemen must wear ties for admittance&#8221;.  I don&#8217;t do ties.  Unless I could persuade them that I&#8217;m not a gentleman, of course&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Winning at ten-pin bowling<\/strong>.  Went bowling with a large group of gents on Monday and, despite opening with a rather poor 98 in the first game (after starting it quite well with two strikes and a spare), things improved somewhat and I managed a 152 in the second round.  This was the top score of the night.  Hurrah!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I have been mostly doing the following: Reading my CCNA books. They cover a sod of a lot of material. I&#8217;ve nearly finished reading the first (&#8220;easiest&#8221;) of the two. A lot of the first half was unfamiliar material and I was beginning to think I might not be able to see it&#8230;&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=299\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}