On Friday Joel came to visit us in Belfast, because there was a convention to take place from the 7th to the 8th June of 2014. He arrived around 17pm here, and after a quiet Friday evening where we cooked some pasta and looked some films we (Nick, Eric, Martin, Joel and me) got up at about 10 pm in the morning to get ready for the event. After having a nice breakfast we took a cab to the Kings Hall which led us trough some nice neighbourhoods around Belfast which I‘ haven’t seen before. Around the Lisburn Road there is a big mansion district where a lot of really impressive houses are located. While we we’re driving to the venue the weather already started to getting worse. There was a huge load of rain coming to the earth and it didn’t seem to clear up so soon. As we arrived we we’re shocked about how many people lined up to get into the Comic Con. It was a queue which was about 300 meters long and we first had to walk to the end of it. As expected the weather seemed to side against us, so instead of getting better the rain steadily hold on while we were waiting to get in. We were curious about how long it would take to reach the entry and already got used to the idea that it could easily take 2 hours to get in, but as the people were moving in batches it happened to be slightly earlier. After about a hour we finally where in the batch that was getting access to the area.
The entry fee was 8 pounds which is okay in my opinion for a big event. After we’ve passed the gates a huge wave of humid heat was streaming towards us, which was at first really heavy but after spending a few minutes in the building you got used to it. It also had the advantage that the clothing was drying  fast which was completely sodden after the rainfall. The convention itself wasn’t what like I’ve expected it to be. On each stand there was a lot of merchandise for sell, mostly more expensive then you can buy it elsewhere but anyway a lot of stuff huddled up. Me as I’ve never been a fan of animes and mangas and most comics at all (probably because I’ve never been interested enough yet to get deeper into it) was a bit disappointed, but anyway I’ve bought a few souveniers which aren’t related to comics in particular. Eric explained me afterwards that there’s a difference between a convention and a fair where more stuff is free available and new products are announced, while conventions usually are for selling stuff and meeting up like-minded persons. I now can say that I wouldn’t visit it anymore, but for more interested persons, it’s a nice thing for sure and it was an experience on its own that had to be made.

My work week was as usual a mixture of moving equipment around and reassembling PCs. On Monday we had to move Thin-Clients from one branch to another but because the cables were needed elsewhere we couldn’t get them to work at all. Eric, Max and me are moving more and more between the 3 buildings, so we often need to walk around the city ourselves, which is great because Belfast is at least in the inner city an interesting place to be during the work hours. For example we’ve seen a few Google Street View cars on the roads or in front of the court there were interviews taken with the local news reporters which were broadcasted to BBC. There are quite a lot of ways to go to the Riverhouse building and we usually take the one which is going along a small pedestrian area where a lot of Cafés and restaurants are located, including the big Victoria Square Shopping Centre which is a nice place for having lunch. On Wednesday Mr. Bavar, Mrs. Neumann and Mrs. Teichmann came along our firm to talk to us about the work experience and the internship in general. They were accompanied by Ruth from Intern Europe and Mrs. Brady from Concentrix whom had a nice talk with them. After exchanging a few words and taking some pictures they had to go again because of the tight shedule they had for the day. On that day the CCNA NetRiders also took place, where some of us had participated. On Thursday and Friday we had to assemble fans for the buildings and fix up office chairs. We we’re around in different contractor areas which gave us again an impression who the things are working there in the company. All in all it was quite a nice week and I’m looking forward for the remaining time in Belfast.

Hello everyone,

at this weekend Eric, Joel, Nick, Tim and me visited the Comic Con in Belfast.
The Comic Con was in the King`s Hall in Belfast and there were a lot of people and we had to wait over an hour to buy our ticket.
Eric, Joel and Nick are very excited but Tim and me found it not very well.
I think that we doesn’t watch enough comic and mangas but it was a expericiene.
The best thing what I found was the car from the movie Back to the Future.

Eric, Joel and Nick want to spend more time at the Comic Con but Tim and me wanted to leave.

Hi there!

This weekend a Comic Con took place here in Belfast. And of course, we were there to check out this event and to make pictures of some hand made cosplay costumes. Actually it was a quite small hall, but we still had to wait over an hour in the line to get into. After we finally made it into we walked around a bit to see everything. I was looking for some mangas the whole time, but unfortunately I couldn’t find even one booth which sells some. But I guess at least it was a success for Eric, because he found a lot of Bronie stuff and met some supporters of the Bronie cult. After that we took a taxi to the city center, where we visited the Forbidden Planet another comic and merchandise store, where I got a fabric banner of Shizuo, a character of the anime Durarara!!, which will get a second season soon. Back at home we made burgers for dinner again and let the evening fade away in a relaxing atmosphere with watching some movies and stuff.

Hello everyone,

on Wednesday I added a Hyper-V Cluster to the DPM at work, but it didn’t run at the first try. I had to fix some configurations (firewall, permission), but now they are are added and the replication is in progress and on Monday I have to test it for functioning. But for this I had to create a virtual machine so I can put in the backup, because it’s not recommend in a life enviroment.
In my last article I’ve spoken about the new contract in the cafeteria and they changed the breakfast on Friday, so they canceled the best meal of the week.

This weekend is the Comic Con in Belfast and I will post what happens there on my next article.

at work