A simple matter of…

Well today my nice new shiny toys arrived from Has Bean (I have to say, Steve has been very helpful keeping me informed and being patient whilst I sorted out the order for the three of us who have ordered one).
My first coffee was very nice, I’m sure I’ll get much better as I start [...]

Well that was a fun weekend! FOSDEM 2008 photos uploaded.
A big “thank you” to the FOSDEM crew, all the groups who organised talks and those who presented talks. Generally the presentation quality was very good. The timekeeping was _far_ better than the previous two times I’ve attended (2005,2006) - only one talk was [...]

(As Tony would say)
Well this weekend I’m off to the wonderful land of FOSDEM in Brussels, Belgium. This is the biggest Open Source conference in Europe and is always well worth attending. As they say, “200 talks, 4000 geeks”. I won’t mention the beer. As usual we’ll be staying in the [...]

The explanation was “it’s a team building thing - we are going to have a pointless meeting each month”. “Only rule is no work, no kids (that’s _your_ fault)”
You may have seen that I’m currently seeking an Espresso machine. Well there are few coffee fanatics at a customer and so obviously I’ve [...]

An engineer would (I hope) have spotted the problem.
If you link three gears like this, they cannot turn.

Sun has now bought Innotek. Another company goes down the tube then. I’m sorry but I have very, very little faith in Sun. If I was an enterprise customer I’d just worry like crazy - they seem to have no real roadmap - other than one consisting of huge amounts of hype [...]

I struggled most of Friday and for a few more hours tonight (and probably more time last week I can’t recall) on setting up GFS for work. GFS is a cluster filesystem - where more than one box share the filesystem amongst themselves - useful for HA (High Availability) clustering.
Now an additional complexity here [...]

Had a lovely time at Andy and Vicky’s up in Oxford this weekend helping out with some of the DIY jobs to do before they add a new member to their family. I’ve uploaded a few photos to my album - including some of the fabulous nursery. Fun jobs included:

running phone cables and some [...]

My gallery uses a plugin to display EXIF information about the photo (technical details as well as useful stuff like the date the photo was taken). Some friends have said that they find this a bit obtrusive so I’ve hacked in a 2 second delay before it displays the information. If you also use [...]

Today I finally remembered to take my camera along to one of our customers. Since I’m only there a few days a week I don’t have a proper desk, however the desk I do have is right against the window - I only have to look up (or down since it’s on the 7th [...]