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.
by ezs | Mar 1, 2007 | evilzenscientist, travel, Uncategorized
I’ve just arrived in Beijing after a day of travelling. I left home before dawn for a 6am flight to San Francisco, then flew to Beijing.
The flight was uneventful; immigration stressfree.
First impressions of Beijing? It’s raining, foggy and construction is everywhere.
Tomorrow I will be in the local Novell office, more updates then.
by ezs | Feb 28, 2007 | Evangelism, evilzenscientist, Uncategorized, ZENworks
I need to get some voiceover on this – but this is a live screen cam of the installation of ZENworks Pulsar. It takes about 5 minutes on a fast server.
by ezs | Feb 27, 2007 | Evangelism, Technology, travel, Uncategorized
Tomorrow morning I’m heading off early for a week in Beijing, China. It’s the first time for me; and to be honest the first time I’ve travelled anywhere where I really don’t have any ability to speak some basic local language and read my way around.
I downloaded a Rapid Mandarin course by Earworms from Audible – and I at least know some phrases. (Well – it’s another language I can order beer and coffee in ..)
Hopefully internet won’t be too shoddy during the week – I’ll be there with Laurence so I’ll make sure we post some pics.
by ezs | Feb 27, 2007 | evilzenscientist, fun stuff, Uncategorized
I liked this:
(clicky for big)
(From Wellington Grey)
by ezs | Feb 20, 2007 | evilzenscientist, Technology, Uncategorized
This site gets a mix of visitors; but most are technical people.
Right now IE7/XP and Firefox2/XP are neck and neck.
What is interesting is that IE7/Vista is just over 3% of traffic already.
Data from Google Analytics
by ezs | Feb 18, 2007 | blogging, Uncategorized
I spend a few days catching up on posting video to my family and home blog instead 😉 No posts for a week or two.
by ezs | Feb 6, 2007 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
I’ve blogged about LinkedIn many times in the past couple of years.
One thing that never fails is using LinkedIn to track the internal barometer of an organisation. It can even be used to track an individuals thoughts about a place.
A simple example.
Let’s say that you see a connection who has been somewhat dormant in the past few months suddenly start adding connections like crazy and writing and getting recommendations.
Maybe they got organised and started working on their LinkedIn profile; just as likely is they are fishing around for a new role and want to polish up the profile.
I’ve noticed about a 70-80% correlation on this in the last year; profile gets refreshed and updated; a few months later people move on.
Let me know your views.
by ezs | Feb 4, 2007 | Technology, Uncategorized, ZENworks
ZENworks and other systems management tools do a great job of managing software and updates on corporate machines. Have you ever stopped to think about updating software in the most hostile of environments?
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