a nice long weekend — Truman Boyes

The lovely state of Victoria enjoyed Labour Day, this Monday the 10th of March. I had the opportunity to spend the beautiful blue sky day walking around Melbourne, taking a tram with Jenny to keep the temperature down, and I also finished reading a book about the story of Lonely Planet. Coincidently, the story of Lonely Planet, publishers of guide books and language books, involves Melboune as this is where the authors decided to build the base of their company and where they decided to live.

I resumed a post that I never really finished because, as it seems, I was far too tired to write with any style:

“just gave a talk on intro to mpls. over in taiwan. very jet lagged. taiwan is exciting and hoping to see more of it this week.”

Well, I did see Taipei as we went up there for APRICOT 2008, where I ended up presenting a talk on MPLS that my colleague was scheduled to present, but he needed to fly out early so I filled in to give the morning talk. I think it went rather well considering that I had little time to prepare for the talk, but I was able to clearly explain the benefits of deploying MPLS and I think it spurred some thought around how the different technologies stack up and form provider provisioned VPNs.

Originally published on truman.net. See the archived copy.