by ezs | Mar 12, 2006 | evilzenscientist, fun stuff, Novell, Novell BrainShare, Uncategorized, ZENworks
Mark Schouls sent me a link to this Tshirt site; I don’t know whether to be worried by this…
Someone in Germany (or maybe Austria/Switzerland) is either surprisingly supportive of the Evil ZEN Scientist concept.. or I have a doppelganger. (I hope it’s not a stalker!)
Reminds me of my good friend Jerry Chadwick – who used to be the engineering manager for Novell Application Launcher. He had ‘NAL groupies’ who would follow him around at BrainShare – even into the restroom. 🙂
Written at: London Heathrow Airport, England
by ezs | Mar 11, 2006 | evilzenscientist, fun stuff, Gonetoutah, travel, Uncategorized
Wow – I went out for dinner tonight in Birmingham, England with my sister.
Birmingham is renowned as one of the curry capitals of England; the original home of the Balti.
This evening I chose to visit a recommendation – Lasan in the Jewelery Quarter.
Put simply – the food was superb. Modern, classy Indian, served with style. Very tasty, extremely high quality ingredients – and they cook parathas to order 🙂
Highly recommended
Written at: on the train between Birmingham, England and London, England.
by ezs | Mar 9, 2006 | evilzenscientist, fun stuff, Technology, Uncategorized
There has been a lot of hype in the last week or so about the Origami device – or Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC)
Intel have a way cool video here – this looks like a technology teaser more than anything.
Details are starting to trickle out of CeBIT in Hanover – as well as on MSDN Channel 9.
From what I can see and read:
– this is clearly a first generation product.
– three hours battery life. Urg. My Thinkpad gets double that! My iPod Nano gets over 14 hours!
– the form factor leaked on the web earlier this month looks cool; the products shown so far look less cool.
– 1GHz Intel x86, 512 MB RAM, Wireless, Windows XP Tablet Edition.. that’s just enough to run an RDP client and iTunes 😉
Clearly there is a cool factor here; the challenge will be in running to second edition – I’d certainly look at needing more battery life.
As Scoble said:
It’s not an iPod killer.
It’s not a portable Xbox.
It’s not an OQO killer.
It’s not a PSP killer.
Update: it’s not a Nokia N90 killer either (thanks to Marc Canter for asking about that).
Update 2: it’s not a Treo 700w killer either (thanks to Dave for pointing that out).
Update 3: hey, PalmAddicts, it’s not a Palm killer either. 🙂
So, what is Origami?
The UPMC doesn’t look like any of these; the closest I can describe right now is a ‘home laptop replacement’.
Written at: Edinburgh, Scotland
by ezs | Feb 24, 2006 | evilzenscientist, fun stuff, Uncategorized
Ah – a favourite for Powerpointers world over – Harvey balls (or meatballs in Novell parlance) represent the relative impact of various options.
I found a great font with the balls in here – soniacoleman.com –Â and some great graphics here.
A sidenote: “Harvey balls” are named after their inventor–Harvey Poppel, a partner in the international consulting firm Booz Allen.
by ezs | Feb 12, 2006 | evilzenscientist, fun stuff, Uncategorized
I got another recipe book for Grania for her Birthday: Madhur Jaffrey’s World-of-the-East Vegetarian Cooking
It’s been a great resource; even though it’s over twenty years old! We’ve taken some Persian, Thai and lots of Indian ideas from it.
This weekend (as I am going away for most of the week) I cooked up a batch of veggy curries – ranging from spicy chickpeas to a hot madras. I also did a Goan style fish and banana curry – slightly milder, sweeter and suitable for Aoife. Mmmm.
by ezs | Feb 9, 2006 | evilzenscientist, fun stuff, Uncategorized
I’ve been running a more aggressive anti-spam and anti-virus regime on my inbound mail servers for about six weeks now.
The statistics are interesting; inbound spam outnumbers ‘real email’ or ham by around 2:1.
This means that during any day there are at least twice as many unwanted, spam emails – as opposed to real mail. That’s unwanted bandwidth usage and unwanted costs for me! If I wasn’t filtering and capturing this then I would have to be more alert to unwanted emails and delete them.
I’m also using ClamAV to check for viruses within email attachemens. Typically around a dozen or so viruses attached to mail per day. Captured upfront.
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