Month: June 2016

Categories
Computing Networks

Whip is cracked – round 2

I took the same step again for my ICND2 and booked a date for the exam to whip me towards the CCNA, fair play my wife was the one who started cracking the whip to get this done, its made a bit worse for this one as the clock is ticking until they retire the examination announced about a month after I sat ICND1, so I have a window of three months before it effectively retires the exam and I have to start from scratch on the new material, so a crack couple of months study ahead.

I have a bit of a better help this time around, because of the switch of jobs I now have the opportunity to actually access and use Cisco switching in my day to day role, its something thats no longer locked off from my usage in my current job which was the frustrating case previously, so I am getting real first hand experiences finally of setting up VLANs on a network and CLI practice.

Hopefully it will help me pull into shape and get it sorted out in time.

Categories
Films Gaming World of Warcraft

Warcraft Movie – Genuinely underwhelming

As an ex-player, I looked forward to seeing the rich lore behind the game making the jump to the big screen, potentially it makes for some truly epic filmography if done right.

Release date came and went and I finally see the film, I came out thinking that I can’t say I really enjoyed the film all that much, which is a genuine shame and disappointment, the premise is there for greatness within the games universe, but overall I felt at best it was very rushed to get released and seemingly lacking in any decent character development and backstory or covering the gaps in the history for the characters in front of us.

Guldan had a long backstory that was missing and the titan’s and their servants were missing.

It was very jumpy in places playing a little hard and fast with the lore from its universe changing the canon for some key points that happened, its easy for me to criticise being probably targeted as a rabid fanboy here, though I would argue differently because it lost the flow of the story telling, also some characters engineered in made very little impact – the addition of Lothar’s son was one such character who was a little pointless.

One final criticism for me, despite the fact I come from a WoW background and I am extensively up on the lore, it didn’t take any time to explain anything though to people from the non-gaming backgrounds.

Overall I would say about 4 or 5 out of 10 at best, which is deeply disappointing for my expectations here.