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Welcome to CallamMcMillan.com. Delivering Boom since 2007! This is a series of blogs written by Callam McMillan and friends on a range of topics from the technical (Networking, Cisco, Web Development and "How To" guides), to the funny (Idiots hurting themselves on camera), via everything in between.
So what is Boom, and how does this CallamMcMillan.com deliver it? Boom started as a shorthand way amongst the people I work with of announcing we had made a personal impact. I have extended it a step further, so if something you read makes you think, makes you laugh, makes you leave a comment or show your friends, even if it makes you scream out how much you disagree with me, then it's Boom... Delivered*!
(* Please note CallamMcMillan.com is not responsible for any smashed keyboards as a result of our Boom! Sorry about that.)
Picture this, you've completed 3 years of university delivering a dissertation, a team project and some compulsory management modules, by now you and everyone in your team should surely know how to manage effectively right? Nope. I've just completed a team project so badly managed that I actually dreamt about having a new manager coming in and saving us all, here's how it happened.
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As I promised when I launched this site, I would get guest writers to help me out. Today I would like to introduce the self-proclaimed professional trouble-maker Mitul Patel. Mitul is a few weeks away from completing his masters in Computer Science at Loughborough University where he is completing his thesis project titled "Simulating mobile nodes in ad-hoc systems."
Outside of university Mitul is studying for his CCNA and is looking to become a full time network engineer. Mitul also enjoys lock picking, white-hat security and interesting TV. Mitul's computer setup includes an overclocked Sandy Bridge i7, five monitors, a Cisco 2821 router and a Cisco 1252 Aironet.
In a little over seven months CallamMcMillan.com has published 50 articles on a wide range of topics, ranging from the technical - Cisco discussions and the like, to the bizarre, such as the terminally stupid, via everything in between. Unlike some of the articles which made the previous version of my website, I have tried to make these more considered and more on a single topic! So for the 50th article I thought I'd do a summary of my latest changes and take a look at where the site will go next.
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I would love to be a fly on the wall in a meeting between Martin Whitmarsh, Ron Dennis and Lewis Hamilton. I can't imagine it would be a very pleasant meeting after the latest cock-up. Anybody that knows me knows that I am a Lewis Hamilton fan, I like his driving style and as I have written previously I think he has approached this season with a really good attitude which at the start led to a series of consistent podiums. Conversely, this is the third race in which he has been penalised by issues beyond his control.
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If anybody deserved to be removed from the gene pool for services to stupidity, then here they are. James Magee, a 37 year old musician. James who was two and a half times the legal drink-drive limit decided to cycle along an unlit section of the southbound A10 with no lights and no reflectors. Surely the only thing that could have made it any worse is if he was cycling the wrong way!
Unsurprisingly James next experience would have been that of bouncing off the windscreen of a Mini before departing this earth in a puff of stupidity.