I’ve been a Nokia customer for years.
My first phone was a ‘Nokia Orange’ – the old 2140 brick.
Since then I’ve had lots of different Nokia phones; the only exception was a dreadful Motorola for a few months.
I’ve now had to make a choice – and I’m moving to a BlackBerry 8800.
Email on the move. Sad – but an indication of how things are changing.
In a room with dozens and dozens of people from across the BU and other teams – working on strategy and changing our development model.
Half height rack – courtesy of Dan who’s moving away soon.
Now the servers will have a real home again!
Never ignore the cones in the construction zone.
Seen on State Street at about 10000 South in Sandy.
Guess someone has some explaining to do. That thing wasn’t coming out of the 3 foot deep pipe trench.
I visited the Yonghegong Lama Temple in Beijing yesterday with Laurence.
It is one of the largest Tibetan Buddhist monastries in the world; there is considerable controversy about the political freedom of the Tibetan Buddhists – certainly the monks in the monastry were all goverment approved.
That aside – it was a very tranquil and relaxing end to the day. The road to the monastry was lined with shops selling insense sticks; the smell of sandalwood was incredible.
Two more large panoramas – they are large files so download may be slow. The originals are massive.
Art imitating life?
Here is the advertising promotion for ‘Shangri-la towers’ in the film Brazil:
And here is the poster I saw on the Beijing subway:
Most of the visitors to the Novell office here in Beijing are from the US – and get ferried around in a company car with driver.
The first time I was here with Laurence we wanted to stay at the Marriott – a whole 15 minutes away; we got a lot of pressure from the local team to stay at the ‘company approved’ hotel just a 2 minute walk (or a 2 minute drive!) from the office.
This time we just made our own bookings and are staying about 20 minutes from the office; nearer the city center.
We’ve been commuting in on the Beijing subway. That’s an experience.
Not so much “Mind the Doors” – at every door there is a uniformed subway employee who physically pushes people into the train.
The walk to the office is also interesting – every crossing has a uniformed crossing guard keeping people moving and traffic moving.
I’m a-logging bugs against code.
Reminds me of the Dilbert cartoon:
Usual disclaimers – (c) Scott Adams and all that
I flew into Beijing last Sunday – it was (surprisingly) a clear and sunny day. The Great Wall of China was clearly visible as we flew into Beijing.
I upgraded my PGP to the latest version to support Vista – working well – even the GroupWise C3PO works reasonably.
I took the plunge and did the Whole Disk Encryption for my laptop. Wow. 60GB of data encrypted in 3 hours. Now I get the PGP WDE sign on at boot, I use my home Active Directory password and I get single-sign-on into Vista. Very well implemented.
Now I’m less worried about travelling with my laptop and confidential data. BIOS password and physical security are part of the solution; but crypto for the whole disk is important.
It’s also a lot easier than the Vista Bitlocker. It works with 2000, XP and Vista – and does not require TPM on the workstation. My T42p works flawlessly so far.
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