It's been a long time since I wrote here. The earlier content you see here actually came from my previous blogs at veejoe-dot-com-dot-au and later viccross-dot-com, both of which for various reasons are... no longer available. So why relaunch? Well, mostly because I still have things to say! I have not decided exactly what yet, … Continue reading Relaunching… again
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My Linux-based Large-Scale Cloning Grid experiment, which I've implemented four times now (don't ask, unless you are ready for a few looooooong stories), has three main components to it. The first, which provides the magic by which the experiment can even exist, is the z Systems hypervisor z/VM. The second is the grist on the … Continue reading Programming decisions
This is a fictionalised retelling of a dream I had in the wee hours of this morning. It flows basically the same as the action from the dream, but some of the thinking and interpretation occurred in the couple of hours after I woke up and still had the dream in my head. I also … Continue reading Good Luck: a dream
The last couple of weeks have seen a radically positive shift in my state of mind, ironically triggered by finding out that my ex-wife has her boyfriend moving in. I've realised that life is too short to live in the past (even though I wasn't conscious of doing so) and that looking forward is the … Continue reading Beginning Again
It's easy to treat a silly slogan on a coffee mug as little more than just a few words designed to evoke a wry grin from a slightly antisocial co-worker. Sometimes it can take on a deeper meaning, if you let it.
Some folks might be a bit affronted at the "compare and contrast" of z Systems and a fast food drive-through, but it's just an analogy...
This post may come across as self-serving, semi-advertorial, promotional, or just plain crappy (or all of the above). I don't apologise, it's my blog and I'll write what I want to. However, because it's the Internet and it's almost guaranteed that someone reading this will think I should have warned them... consider yourself warned, fair … Continue reading Analogy can be found anywhere
I had an unexpectedly emotional departure from Brisbane last week. It was supposed to be a standard flight to Sydney, but became something a lot more. When I first started travelling by air, flights to Melbourne were on 737s and to Sydney were 767s. I guess you knew you were going to the "big smoke" … Continue reading The last time
A week or so ago I succumbed to the hype (and the nagging from my devices) and installed iOS 8 on a second iPad. As far as updates go it was smooth although the post-install setup wizard crashed before it could ask me about things like iCloud Drive, which made me wonder whether I might … Continue reading iOS8 and OS X Yosemite
So I messed up. I let the domain name registration for veejoe-dot-net expire, which was bad enough, but it turns out that even a low-visibility low-traffic domain like mine can still end up getting heisted by domain squatters. Which is why it lives in Czechoslovakia now. The other thing that I had been trying to find … Continue reading I’m back
Crossed Wires 