Different styles of life as we wear it!

During my twenty <something> years of life I have gone trough quite a few styles in clothes, but then again I guess most of us have. We all had that lunatic phase somewhere in your teens (pictures from that era are banned from all social networks and coupled with promises of certain death if shown in public).

Well, to get back on track… right now I’m in a transition phase where my normal week includes three styles. Regular jeans and some hoodie for pure office days, some comfortable sportspants and t-shirt during private life and then the business outfit for meetings and social life.

Being somewhere in the start of my professional career I see it fit to try out what kind of clothing person I want to become in the future. Right now I’m leaning somewhat towards the business outfit for most occasions as I very much enjoy being well dressed.

This might come as a shocker to some of my colleagues but hopefully they will like me anyways (they better, or else). Anywho.. Being anything close to a geek, nerd or genius actually gives you a lot of choices in the clothing department.

My reasoning here is that you will make great money in whatever clothes you are wearing as long as you can convince the right people that you are the only man for their project (and for that we have phones, e-mail and a heap of other technologies that does not feature visuals of the person on the other side).

So, what do the general public have to say about the clothing of a business man still in his twenties? Should he be wearing a suit, a hoodie or a coat similar to the one on the right? Well, that remains to be seen. I promise to give you an update on how my little experiment is going sometime soon.

Until then…

Regards,

LG

Last but not least!

During this last weeks of travelling I picked up a few pictures I would like to share with you! I thought I had three but the one with “AMEL was here” carved into a piece of wood in the smokers lounge at Arlanda airport seems to have been lost in transition!

I knew that “PAF” (Patrik Fältström) was an allstar globetrotter but that he got himself his own vine (and an expensive one to say the least, the price tag is in CHF) was news to me!

In today’s enlightened society I thought that we all would agree on that *BSD is king of the hill.. Well, it seems that Mr. Shane Kerr of ISC thinks otherwise.. Linux penguin with an Amsterdam twist will hurt to remove when he comes to his senses!

Frankfurt

A few days after returning from Zürich I got another request for a presentation regarding the marketing advantages of DNSSEC as a registrar. This time around it was DENIC, the registry for .de.

Still, doing presentations, meeting new people and networking is somewhat my style so with no further a due I confirmed my interest and started planning the trip.

With all the feedback from my latest run trough the presentation I had to give it some tender lovin’n'care but aside from that they got the same shebang! (Thanks Francesco for the last minute suggestions).

Arriving to Frankfurt I was surprised to see that they actually have skyscrapers! In Europe! Did not think that existed at all. Well, with the city having the nickname “Mainhattan” I was foolish not to figure it out earlier!

The event started with a dinner during the evening before the actual meeting at a restaurant called Vinum. They served the regional speciality Äpfelwine (almost like a dry apple cider) and some typical German food. During the dinner I sat down besides some of the people I know from the RIPE-meetings and the discussion was on! No flavours of DNSSEC was left untouched!

Due to the fact that the almost entire (very technical) meeting was done in German I was glad to find that Shane Kerr from ISC was scheduled to speak about BIND10 (in english). As Bind is my personal name server of choice I was of coarse very glad to hear some of the goodies that the new version will bring!

I was surprised to see that my presentation actually stirred up a lot of questions from the otherwise quite calm crowd. I hope that was a good sign! As always when giving a presentation I hope that someone learned something new about DNSSEC that will make them more eager to start working with the essential DNS extension!

If you want to know what I was actually saying during the presentation then grab the slides!

Regards,

LG

Internetdagarna

After that .SE hosted IETF75 this summer there seems to be some kind of residual conference hunger in Sweden. Wherever I turn there is some kind of event being planned. The next one up for me is Internetdagarna. Translated into English the name  means something like “The Internet days”.

The conference is split up into several tracks covering just about everything that is happening on the Internet of today. The track I will be most active in is of course the domain name track. I will have no less then three appearances, all one the same day.

One as the moderator of the session right before lunch, one as a speaker during the afternoon session and one as a participant of the last session of the day, the panel discussion. All being a part of  the DNSSEC workshop Thursday at Internetdagarna (man, im gonna be tired)!

If you want to participate in this event then sign up for it now by following the linkage below! Btw, if your native language is anything other then Swedish then don’t worry. All of the DNSSEC discussions are held in English.

Registration for internetdagarna!

Regards,

LG

Zürich

A few weeks ago I got an invitation to visit Switch, the Swiss registry (.ch and .li), to have a talk at their seminar regarding the marketing aspects of DNSSEC. As this is one of my favourite subjects I gladly accepted the offer. The seminar was scheduled for the seventh of October and as it started quite early in the morning I left on the eve of the sixth.

At the airport I met up with Anne-Marie Löwinder (AMEL), the quality and security manager of .SE (the internet infrastructure foundation). She had been asked to have her own talk about the registry aspects of DNSSEC at the same seminar. When we arrived in Zürich Marco and Samuel from Switch was there to greet us with a nice dinner at one of the many resturants serving Swiss specialities.

The seminar went great and I got a lot of positive feedback from the audience along with a box of Swiss truffles for my troubles. Its always nice with some appreciation. Later on that evening Switch had arranged a dinner for all of the participants from the seminar. It gave me a nice opportunity to talk with the crowd and the evening was very nice overall.

The morning after was just a bit less exiting including getting up a lot earlier the usual and going to the airport to catch a fight home to Sweden. All and all, the trip was really nice and while being mostly about work it gave me a nice breather from the office air.

I would like to recommend all of you to take the time to visit Zürich once in you life, preferably during the warm season. It has some wonderful canals to walk along and the lake is beautiful with the surrounding mountains.

Regards,

LG