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Zero Day Stop

by | Mar 7, 2008 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized

Wow. My experience of being “Zero Day Stopped”.

Suddenly at 7pm Utah time everything stopped working. GroupWise, IM, Bugzilla, Innerweb – everything.

I’m now set adrift in the world of no BlackBerry, no email, no IM, no Bugzilla, no testing..

It’s refreshing – but very, very strange.

Apologies to everyone who has been Zero Day Stopped in a less planned way.

My last day at Novell was quite civilised.

I went into the office; dropped off a ton of confidential materials for shredding, dropped off my hardware (laptop, hefty ESX server), wandered around saying goodbye, did my exit interview with HR, went for lunch with my good friend Father Fowles, went back into the office to say goodbye to a few more engineers, handed in my badge, went home.

[Update: My Novell ID is now lost down the memory hole.]

GWIM GroupWise

“We Apologise for the Inconvenience”

by | Mar 2, 2008 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized

Thanks to everyone who mailed me this weekend. Over 150 mails so far – and still coming in.

Sorry for shocking people by leaving Novell – I guess I had the “Red Pill” pretty bad.

Red Pill Hand

No news on “where” yet.

As for the “Goodbye” – I’ll be having a couple of beers in SLC on Friday 14th March. That’s the Friday before BrainShare.

“Normal” weekends

by | Mar 1, 2008 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized

I’ve not been looking at the beta builds of Rawhide this weekend. I don’t think I will.

Instead – listening to music and playing with the kids.

I bought some CDs at HMV at Heathrow:

Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures – Collector’s Edition
Joy Division – Still  – Collector’s Edition
Los Campesinos! – Hold on now, Youngsters

Also listening to Mark Radcliffe via the BBC iPlayer. Spot of old stuff (The Primatives, Stereolab) and new (Ting Tings, Vampire Weekend).

[Edit: I also purchased Control on DVD]

Off out for lunch later.