Current Addictions

Networks and Printing. :)

To the extent of running wireshark on my wireless network at home, learning all the weird protocols and their extent of usage and trying to determine how to make the network better. considering this has encroached upon most of my time and efforts at office these days, its no surprise. finding viruses on the wire, locating machines and unplugging from the network is a tough task if you dont have a NMS setup already. Tools like Wireshark, Snoop and ntop (brilliant find) helped. Also, its a great learning exp because i used to maintain distance from networks all these days. Networks are addicting and hard to debug keeping the business impact in view. Its like a Chess game. you make a move and the network gives one back.

Printing... Got a free printer with my internet connection after a deal with the ISP. And all i can think abt is what i can print! a LOT of paper is going to get wasted soon. :) Only sad part is, the printer is a Canon make. :( tried hard to get a HP one. am willing to give this one off to a friend or cousin if it really gets to me sometime down the line.

Apart from this, the wish-list of 'must do' things is growing... and i am finding less and less time to rest or exercise. Thats showing up in the form of dreams. Phew, scary ones!