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Firewall woes

by ezs | Aug 11, 2006 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized

Flaky hard drive in my firewall server.

Time to replace it methinks. It keeps crashing out with bad surface – and bringing down the firewall and squid box.

Trouble for me if there is no web browsing or email!

Late projects

by ezs | Aug 9, 2006 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized

I was reminded of this via 37signals.

“How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.”
Fred Brooks, software engineer and computer scientist

Audible

by ezs | Aug 6, 2006 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized

Good success with Audible recently.

I’m currently listening to “Seizing the Enigma” by David Kahn; I just finished “Defying Hitler” by Sebastien Haftner and also “Dare to Be a Daniel” by Tony Benn.

I’m really into historical non-fiction; I also really prefer the unabridged 10 hours of listening to the shorter abridged versions.

WordCamp

by ezs | Aug 5, 2006 | blogging, Evangelism, evilzenscientist, Uncategorized, WordCamp, wordpress

So I’m in San Francisco at the WordPress Community geek-fest that is WordCamp.

It’s kinda interesting – the usual [x]camp format; the usual 80/20 mix of hackers and non-hackers; the lack of power outlets…

There are a lot of people here who are using WordPress and want more – there is certainly a wave of demand that could see the whole community become a lot stronger.

Spent time in a session this morning on ‘Helping out WordPress’ – the number 1 request is ‘help with support’. I’ll get with a few people and see what can really be done.

After working with Ximian for three years – I’m really wary of reliance on the community; I know it’s active; but without clout nothing moves.

Oh – and I gave out a stack of openSUSE 10.1 DVDs – as well as the link to the running WordPress on openSUSE article that I threw together. I was branded a dreadful person from corporate land for that. The folks at WordCamp who got the openSUSE DVDs were happy though.