Today the guys are continuing to work on the walls.
I see that Ciena are acquiring Nortel's Metro-Ethernet business. I hadn't realised that Ciena has around 2,000 people and so does the Nortel ME business: quite a sizeable bite to digest.
This morning I joined Wells library hoping they would have a good stock of books by Milan Kundera ("The Unbearable Lightness of Being" etc): however there was nothing - (the parochialism of rural life - don't get me started!).
I also asked if they would accept donated books (thinking of my extensive collection of slightly out-of-date volumes on TCP/IP, DNS, NAT, IPsec, etc etc; also endless physics popularisations: Woit, Smolin, Wilczek, Susskind, Greene).
The severe-looking but quite amiable woman looked unenthusiastic: "No more than ten please and we wouldn't accept them if we didn't think they'd be flying off the shelves."
OK, I paraphrase a bit.
