I have settled into a somewhat sedentary lifestyle. My partner tries valiantly to get me involved in her personal training sessions, but I have a lot of inertia. I know that I need to do something about being more active and increasing my fitness level, but have struggled to find a motivator. While in Europe … Continue reading I lost my Fitbit… and found it
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Like most international travellers in the Internet age, during our recent travel through Europe I was confronted by the ridiculous situation that exists for mobile data access. By ridiculous I mean ridiculously expensive. Look, don't get me wrong: the technology that allows GSM/UMTS global roaming is pretty magical[1]. But it's not exactly new! It's not … Continue reading On global roaming for data
Back when I last posted here, I would never have imagined that within twelve months I would be in a new relationship, travelling overseas on holiday, and generally happy with my life. And yet, that's exactly where I am. I write this from a hotel room in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, having recently returned … Continue reading A long time away
Partly for R U OK? Day, but also because the time has come to stop hiding from it, I've decided to disclose the change in my life that occurred in February 2012.
Unless you've been living in a geekness Faraday cage for at least the last twenty years, you will have some idea who Wil Wheaton is. To many, he's Wesley Crusher from Star Trek: The Next Generation, to others he plays himself (or an evil version of himself) on Big Bang Theory, to yet others he's … Continue reading Wil Wheaton on depression
From time to time, I've run z/OS on the System z machines I have access to. Originally this was by obtaining the ADCD distribution (which I think stands for Application Development Customised Distribution, and there's a hyphen or a slash in the name somewhere...
As I write this, I'm sitting in the Qantas Club lounge in Sydney Airport. For the last week I've been working with a customer installing a new IBM zEnterprise 114. It was a great week, full of learning and new experiences for both my colleague from the customer and me. But as the highs of … Continue reading Update on my illness
Ever since work issued me a Lenovo T61 and I installed Fedora on it, I have lamented the loss of something that X afficionados referred to as "Zaphod mode". By gluing together a few different software and hardware components I managed to get close to the old Zaphod mode days -- but first some background... … Continue reading DisplayLink and x2x brings back Zaphod mode
This is perhaps the hardest thing I've ever had to write. There is a lot of emotion behind the words I write here, and I'm trying to keep that out. If you were expecting the latest snippet of technical insight from me, I'm sorry. Maybe next time. This post is about me. In the first … Continue reading Hi, I’m Vic… and I have depression
As I type this, 2011 draws to a close (in this timezone at least) -- in fact if I keep going long enough it'll be my first post to span two years. I would like to have blogged a bit more in 2011. It's not like I had any shortage of things to write about, … Continue reading Another year over…
Crossed Wires 