Every one of us experiences life-changing events. Sometimes we're fortunate enough to know about them in advance. One such event will come tomorrow for my wife and I, with the scheduled arrival of our second child! All going well, I'll make an update here with news (and I'm veejoe on Twitter, so look out there … Continue reading Tomorrow is a Big Day
If you can read this, it means that Round 3 of my fight with my ISP is over and my ADSL is back up, which is a good thing because it means that I can tell you about why my ClustrMaps image has so many red dots on it suddenly...Every so often I found that … Continue reading Scourges of the Universe: Blog Spam, and ISPs
I had a failure of my Cacti system over the weekend, entirely caused by bad Gentoo emerges. Two different problems, both caused by bad upgrades of packages brought in from ~amd64 or ~x86, made Cacti colourfully dysfunctional for a couple of days.The first was an update to the spine resource poller, part of the Cacti … Continue reading Sometimes, Gentoo bites
So here I am in the Qantas lounge at Changi Airport after my the last day of my trip to Singapore. The education went well (lots of smiling farewells) and I've forged some links with the locals that I hope will be fruitful for all. I'm trying to get over the silly habit I've developed … Continue reading Heading home from Singapore
This week I'm in Singapore, running a training course on z/VM and Linux on System z. I really enjoy coming here! This is the first time I've done any kind of work here, and I'm enjoying fitting into the daily commute in another city!The weather here is, obviously, hot and humid. It's been far from … Continue reading Short trip to Singapore
I like new things. Many of my friends and colleagues do as well. Some of us are very familiar with "early adopter tax", the high price of paying for a new release product or program in spite of the knowledge that delaying the purchase would save money. I got to thinking about early-adoption a little … Continue reading On being an early-adopter
Or at least the ones bought there do. In my travels to Canberra I've now bought two compact travel umbrellas and lost *both* of them within a week of purchase. Seems like an umbrella bought in Canberra really wants to stay in Canberra -- the last one lost was liberated by someone who sought to … Continue reading Umbrellas like Canberra
I have been in the mobile phone market on-and-off for nearly 12 months. There wasn't really anything wrong with the N70, I guess I was just getting a little fidgety with lots of new "shiny" going around. The trip to the US in May, and seeing an iPhone in person for the first time, probably … Continue reading New gadget: Nokia E71
I've been extremely slack at blogging recently. It's ironic that what has been keeping me from blogging has probably been the very thing that I could be blogging plenty about: the constant travel to Canberra. I'm planning on writing a bit more about my experiences of and in our nation's capital, so for now here … Continue reading Canberra
Thanks to work, I am now the possessor of a rather cool piece of kit: a tablet PC. It's a Mobile Computing LE1700, and I'm quite impressed with how it works. The big question though is of course... Will it run Linux?At the moment it's still running Windows XP Tablet Edition, but that's only because … Continue reading Motion Computing Tablet PC
Crossed Wires 