by ezs | Apr 4, 2007 | blogging, Uncategorized
Shel Israel writes:
UK Microsoftie Darren Strange reports that Microsoft now has 4500 bloggers among its 71,000 employees. Both numbers show significant growth. As irecall, when Robert and I were writing our first chapter of naked Conversations there were 2500 bloggers among 56,000 employees. By the time we finished the book in October 2005, the bloggers were topping the 3,000 mark. This would mean that the number of Microsoft bloggers has grown by over 50 percent in about a year and a half.
By percentage, I’m not sure whether Sun Microsystems or Microsoft has more bloggers, but both companies continue to grow and continue to extol the virtues of doing it.
One interesting aspect in Darren’s report is that there is no longer any controversy about it. When Joshua Allen, became Microsoft’s first blogger, the first call to fire him for blogging came just a few hours later, as we reported in Naked Conversations.
Now it is seems to me, blogging is normalizing at Microsoft and that is what should happen.
In contrast I think Novell has a couple of dozen prolific bloggers at most. That is way below par.
by ezs | Mar 26, 2007 | blogging, Uncategorized, wordpress
From the dev lists:
The target release date for WordPress 2.2 is less than a month away, April 23rd.
Phew. Patch and relax. Update and relax. Patch and relax.
When Matt and the others from Automattic said they’d be stepping up the frequency of updates – I didn’t expect this 🙂
It’s good though. Lots of new features promised for 2.2 and especially 2.3/2.4 and beyond.
by ezs | Mar 25, 2007 | patching, Uncategorized
Back from BrainShare and the usual round of patching the internal boxes.
The firewall/spam server got a good round of updates. IPcop had two major updates. Also the CLAM anti-virus for the mail sweeper got updated to 0.90.1
There are also a stack of SLES 10 and Windows 2003 updates to test and install. Sigh. Windows 2003 SP2 is now live; I need to check it doesn’t make anything barf. SLES 10 just has the normal slew of packages.
by ezs | Mar 16, 2007 | Evangelism, fun stuff, Novell BrainShare, Uncategorized, ZENworks
What does it mean?
For those at BrainShare – take your camera; mail your pictures to me at ezs@novell.com
by ezs | Mar 15, 2007 | Evangelism, Novell, travel, Uncategorized
I am in Hannover for a couple of days; announcing a new product at CeBIT – the worlds largest IT and technology show.
It is my first time here – and the scale is unimaginable. I was warned by colleagues about the traffic, the remote hotels and the expense – but until this morning I was unprepared.
The Novell stand is huge; with product demos; a cinema and a cafe to talk to partners and customers.
Two press meetings down; a press conference and a partner briefing to go.
Written at: Cebit. Hannover, Germany
by ezs | Mar 6, 2007 | fun stuff, travel, Uncategorized
All of the food so far in Beijing has been excellent.
Last night I headed out with Laurence and we ran into the Dong Hua Men Night Market – which is renowned in Beijing.
There is a wide range of regional delicacies on sale – including lamb kebabs, pork and beef skewers and fruit.
Then there are the real specialties. In the interests of fairness – think how interesting pork scratchings and haggis are..
Starfish on a stick:
And roasted and fried scorpions, silkworm grubs and crickets:
Silkworm grubs. Crunchy on the outside, silky and velvety on the inside. That’s what my online gourmet reviewer said.
Scorpions. Crunchy with a bite. I made that one up.
Finally crickets. Fried and ready to go.
by ezs | Mar 6, 2007 | travel, Uncategorized
The Beijing skyline is filled with cranes.
by ezs | Mar 4, 2007 | travel, Uncategorized
I’ve been taking pictures of my stay in Beijing – I’ve added the pictures from Laurence too.
In addition I am creating some panoramic shots stitching together many pictures to make a panorama.
The panorama is great for trying to give some feeling of the scale of the sights.
Here is Mao’s Mausoleum from a couple of pictures:
And here are a couple of pictures from the Forbidden City – still these pictures don’t give the vastness of the scale:
[For the record – I am using Hugin to create the pictures – it is free and opensource.]
by ezs | Mar 3, 2007 | evilzenscientist, travel, Uncategorized
I am here in Beijing with Laurence – a colleague from the UK.
Yesterday we did the unthinkable – and booked ourselves on an organised tour to the Great Wall.
First stop – the Ming Tombs – about 50km North West of Beijing itself.
As you can see it was drizzling and foggy.
Next stop – after lunch and shopping – was the Great Wall at Ba Da Ling itself.
We drove for just a few minutes and from nowhere Tolkeinesque mountains started to loom up through the mist. Very impressive.
We arrived and the snow started falling. I wanted to get a geocache – so we took the less travelled and much much steeper southern part of the wall.
As you can see – almost whiteout conditions.
The climb up was just slippery; going down was part farce, part winter sport. I’ll post a video of that later!
Here is a view during the summer to show the difference:
Finally – back into a very very wet Beijing for the evening.
We decided to avoid the local delicacies on sale in the hutong – pictures of those soon – but it was a festival – so fireworks, firecrackers – and kids with sparklers.
by ezs | Mar 2, 2007 | travel, Uncategorized
I’m in Beijing with Laurence – a friend from work in the UK.
I spent the morning in the local Novell office – great views; mainly of construction:
We were taken out to lunch by the project team from Novell – to a local tofu restuarant. Tofu served in ways I’d never seen it before. Even as a dessert.
This evening we took a taxi to Tiananmen Square – and walked around. It truly is immense. We were accosted by dozens of people selling kites, Mao watches, books of Mao Quotations – and people just wanting to talk and speak English.
We then went wandering, found a restuarant, and using a combination of pointing and my month old mandarin skills – we ordered Peking Duck, rice and beer. I even managed to ask for a receipt and get the taxi driver back to our hotel.
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