Well it's official now -- or at least, my current boss announced it to the team, so that more-or-less makes it official. 🙂 I will be starting a new job in about a month's time -- still at the same shop, but no longer in Services. I'll be with the team that does technical pre-sales … Continue reading New job
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I know I'm going to cop a beating on the Planet for this post, but here goes... For a long time I ran a desktop system built on Gentoo Linux. A while back I tried Ubuntu, and I've been running that as my desktop ever since. Every now and then, though, I feel an inclination … Continue reading Thinking of a Gentoo desktop
Our not-so-little guy turned four today! He had a McDonalds party on Saturday, with a few of his best mates from day-care in attendance. Today he took a cake to day-care for everyone to share (and he had great fun taking it around the playground to show everyone when he arrived!). The only low point … Continue reading Happy Birthday Nicholas!
"Once upon a time, in a land far from here, there was a clothing factory. One part of this clothing factory made uniforms. The uniforms came in many shapes and sizes: some were sporting team outfits, some were "corporate wardrobe", others were emergency services uniforms... but they all looked alike. Few of the people working … Continue reading A Fractured Fable, Part One
I have to say that over the last couple of years I have only had good dealings with Telstra. Ironically though, the most recent example is about the only service I have with them, and they want to take it away. You see ISDN is outdated technology that is holding Telstra back from delivering new … Continue reading Telstra service
It's probably been coined already, and I'm sure it's not a new realisation. Something happened at my employer recently that's made me wonder whether the old benchmark of "enterprise-grade" is really relevant any more.Our internal IM system was closed down for a while this week, and when it was restarted a number of us could … Continue reading Internet-grade
So I was catching up on the RSS feeds I subscribe to, and came across an article on the latest issue of Full Circle (a magazine about goings-on around Ubuntu Linux). In it I found an article on OpenTTD, an open-source clone of the old 90's game Transport Tycoon Deluxe. As one who spent many … Continue reading OpenTTD
Since I have a few Cisco phones around here, I've played with XML apps. I have written a timezone calculator, an LDAP phone directory lookup utility (which hooks into the "external directory" function of the phones), an app that uses Qantas' WAP interface to get flight arrival/departure information, and the obligatory RSS reader. They work, … Continue reading Cisco XML apps: things made of fail
Since I watch Planet KDE it was easy to get caught up in the excitement around the launch of the new version of KDE (the announcement is here). I was unable to resist giving it a try on the laptop! So this post is coming from Konqueror 4.0.0.I tried an early Beta of the KDE … Continue reading KDE 4.0: be free.
In part one I mentioned how I was considering using Google Talk as my main chat ID. As it turns out, I talked myself out of it pretty quickly after I delved into using Google Talk to connect to MSN and other services as I do now with my own Jabber server. While there are … Continue reading Jabber and Google: part two
Crossed Wires 