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I’m now twatting on twitter after being convinced to do so by my good friend Matt Marlor who runs the excellent autechheads.com forum for Australian and New Zealand geeks. You can apparently follow me @lraikhman. I’m not sure what pearls of wisdom I can provide in 140 characters but if you feel up to it, [...]

Hi, Apologies for not maintaining the blog – starting the business has been a long and painful process – its definitely not as easy as one would think. With regards to myself, I’ve just submitted my documentation for the VCDX defense event (I’ve passed the two exams). I’ll try cram in a few articles ASAP, [...]

What seems like a lifetime ago, but is in fact only about 3 years ago, I worked at a small Sydney integrator called ENSTOR. ENSTOR went to the wall but this is neither here nor there – what matters is that I worked with two wholly remarkable an unique women. One is Siobhan Ellis, the [...]

Hi, I’ve just received an email from Dave Henderson from BrightTALK inviting all blog readers to a free virtualization webcast, featuring such experts as: Moshe Bar, Red Hat – “Determining the Real TCO for Virtual Desktop Environments” Mark R. Feverston, Vice President of Microsoft Solutions at Unisys – “Delivering on the Promise of Simplified Mngmt [...]

I’ve been noticing a fair bit of traffic from Russia and I wanted to address this phenomenon. Yes, my native language is indeed Russian. I live in Australia – in Sydney, and have done so since 1991. I was born in Moscow, USSR – my parents have a mixed Russian/Ukranian heritage. My Russian is of [...]

Hi, Just in case you care, I’ve added Google’s Ad-sense as unobtrusively as possible in the sidebar on the right. This is to generate some revenue and to see through clicks, exactly what’s hot in the tech world at the moment. Cheers, Leo

I was just reading hotware and there’s an awesome link to http://www.xenocode.com/browsers/ where you can download single-file executables for the latest and some historical versions of the most popular browsers out there. These single-execution files are virtualized apps – no installation required. Cheers, Leo

I’m the proud owner of my own company now! It’s called Core IT Services And as such, I’m now hosting this blog, on the company website. No more dynamic DNS! Cheers, Leo

That’s right As of today I’m certified in Citrix XenServer, VMware VI3 and I’m now Hyper-V certified. Took the test for the latter this morning – 070-652 – one of the easiest virtualization certification tests I’ve ever done… My CV has been updated accordingly.

A few weeks back I passed my Configuring Windows Vista certification (070-620) and just today I passed the MCSA briding exam (070-648). I’m now an MCITP: Enterprise Administrator Sounds cool.