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CCNP Ent/Security, DEVASC, AWS CCP, JNCIA-DC, and JNCIP-SP, I am on a journey to achieve CCIE SP. Runner and bonsai enthusiast.

www.plumbingtheinternet.ie
From today walk #stannspark
October 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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In celebration of Joanne Molinaro's appearance on the pod, I'm giving away five signed copies of her new cookbook “The Korean Vegan: Homemade."

To enter, subscribe to my Substack: richroll.com/book-giveaway

Winners announced on or around October 31st.
October 16, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Last Sunday trailrun
July 30, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Please do support your local bookshops. They are esential for independent publishers and have been the patron saints of my writing career through their word-of-mouth support.
July 27, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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The programmer was running on fumes when he accomplished what may soon become impossible.
Exhausted man defeats AI model in world coding championship
“Humanity has prevailed (for now!),” writes winner after 10-hour coding marathon against OpenAI.
arstechnica.com
July 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Leadership coach Gilles Varette explains why undervaluing over-60s in the workplace is a big mistake for business growth.
Still in the game: How professionals over 60 can drive innovation
Leadership coach Gilles Varette explains why undervaluing over-60s in the workplace is a big mistake for business growth.
www.siliconrepublic.com
July 15, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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On May 20th 2025 a BGP message was propagated that triggered some surprisingly disruptive behaviours with two major BGP implementations make up a lot of the internet.

In a new blog post, I will dissect what that message was, and my thoughts on how it happened:

blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/bgp-att...
BGP handling bug causes widespread internet routing instability
blog.benjojo.co.uk
May 27, 2025 at 11:03 AM
#bonsai in training. Fount it last year in nursery thats a first repot, hopefully will survive
May 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Celebrate #CiscoCommunity 25th anniversary all year long! Congratulations our January-April winners 🎉🎉🎉

Learn how to WIN the monthly prizes:
🥂 http://cs.co/633292U5vT
#CiscoCommunity25
April 29, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Failed SPCOR again!
March 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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When Meta started developing its flagship AI model, employees faced an ethical question, Alex Reisner writes. The program would need to be trained on a huge amount of high-quality writing to be competitive with products such as ChatGPT. Should they just pirate it?

Read more: theatln.tc/1P6gPreS
March 22, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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While this year’s #bm100 is over, you can relive last year’s race with two documentaries: The Finisher: Jasmin Paris and the Barkley Marathons is at youtu.be/PgTEsybXw-4
https://youtu.be/PgTEsybXw-4
March 21, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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After a brief memorial, laz lit the cigarette at 11:37. The 2025 Barkley Marathons has begun. #bm100
March 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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🎨 Every week, the world's political cartoonists draw their take on the stories that have people talking around the globe.⁠ ⁠

And every week, we round up the best one 👇
World’s cartoonists on this week’s events
Drawing the top stories around the globe.
www.politico.eu
March 15, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Strava has banned a user from the platform...because they went for a run in North Korea. They also did the same for a user who did a virtual treadmill run that showed up as North Korea. Welcome to day's rabbit hole: www.dcrainmaker.com/2025/03/stra...
March 12, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Oh my, this is brilliant - someone edited an orchestra to make it sound like they’re doing a live performance of a dial-up connection. If the comments are to be trusted, it's accurate! youtu.be/wuN-bW_zS0Q?...
Ode to Internet - V.90 56k dialup modem handshake for orchestra
YouTube video by staybeam
youtu.be
March 8, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Little cherry bonsai in my garden
March 7, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Reviewing LFA, P space, Q space or PQ space is wrecking my head…
March 7, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Sunday trail
March 2, 2025 at 6:06 PM
In the meantime in London
March 2, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.
January 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Some stormy time away, study and work break #StormBert
November 23, 2024 at 5:28 PM
Slowly going back to fells #newrunners #trailrunning #fellrunning
November 9, 2024 at 3:52 PM
great read with examples for my SPCOR prep on MPLS QoS approaches: zartmann.dk/mpls-qos/
MPLS QoS | zartmann.dk
zartmann.dk
October 31, 2024 at 7:10 AM
Failed SPCOR today… i don’t like this exam but will try again
August 24, 2024 at 4:48 PM