by ezs | Jan 12, 2006 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
It’s Thursday – today I am on Wall Street to see a large financial services customer.
I took the train in from Philadelphia – that was fascinating. Amtrak looks starved of investment. Grand old stations like Philadelphia 30th Street – look magnificent in the main hall; once on the platform it is dark, unkempt and pretty dirty. The new Acela “high speed train” looks good; with a striking similarity to the French TGV or Eurostar. The similarity ends with looks. Turns out that the original plan for the Acela was a fast TGV-like corridor between Washington, New York and Boston. The reality is the investment in new track, dedicated running and then compromises and beaurocratic meddling made the train slower, heavier and unreliable.
On the positive side – the transportation was pretty well integrated. Train to 30th St Station, Acela to Newark, PATH to the World Trade Center site. Pretty good.
by ezs | Jan 11, 2006 | blogging, Evangelism, evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
I’m kinda sneaking this out early – but several ZENworks people from across Novell are going to start blogging on Novell Cool Solutions.
It’s called ‘Cool Blogs’.
Any requests for a first post?
by ezs | Jan 10, 2006 | evilzenscientist, fun stuff, Uncategorized
I’m in Philadelphia for a couple of days visiting customers; currently in my hotel room IMing with Jose and talking about Apple.
The new MacBook Pro looks sweet.
I’m watching a DVD of New Order music videos – NEW order A COLLECTION. It’s stunning. Music videos that are almost twenty years old for Bizarre Love Triangle, True Faith and Round&Round look really fresh.
There is also an interesting – and half completed – web site http://www.kinoteca.net from Michael Shamberg which describes a lot of the background to his music videos for New Order.
by ezs | Jan 10, 2006 | blogging, evilzenscientist, Linux, Uncategorized
It’s live. I updated this blog to WordPress 2.0.
So far so good. The new WYSIWYG editor looks pretty sweet too 🙂
by ezs | Jan 10, 2006 | evilzenscientist, fun stuff, Uncategorized
Normally you can’t go swimming with your iPod. (Pedants will point out that you could – it’s just a one time thing.)
Grania swims a lot during the summer (when the bubble roof comes off the pool) – and last year we saw some cool headphones and a small MP3 player that worked under water. We thought this would be good if you could use your existing iPod.
I just found this:
It’s a soft neoprene cover for your iPod. It caught my eye because they support all sizes of iPod – even the new Nano; also they have partnered to offer ‘flood insurance’ for the iPod itself.
Now that’s cool.
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