by ezs | Jun 24, 2006 | evilzenscientist, travel, Uncategorized
I’m in Tel Aviv, Israel for customer visits with Novell Israel.
Don’t be fooled by this picture of the city from my hotel – it really is all concrete from this view. I went for dinner tonight with Vered and Amit from the local team in the older part of the city – known as the White City.
It’s actually the ‘New Town’ and it all dates from the 1930s – it’s all Bauhaus style architecture – unique – and it’s listed by UNESCO.
People often forget that Tel Aviv is right on the Mediterranean – here is the view the other way:
by ezs | Jun 23, 2006 | evilzenscientist, Gonetoutah, Uncategorized
An interesting campaign from the Organic Consumers Association to pursuade Starbucks to stop using ‘crappy hormone filled milk’.
The time has come to kick rBGH off the market, once and for all. If Starbucks, a major buyer of milk, were to reject rBGH dairy products, we could effectively eliminate it from the market.
Similarly, while Starbucks has slowly bought more certified Fair Trade coffee, it represents only a very small percentage of their total coffee (about 3.7%). Starbucks rarely offers certified Fair Trade coffee as their coffee of the day, nor has it followed its own policy of brewing Fair Trade coffee, on demand.
Kinda fits with my earlier Starbucks post..
by ezs | Jun 23, 2006 | evilzenscientist, Gonetoutah, travel, Uncategorized
The joke has always been that Manchester United fans are never from Manchester.
Here’s my proof.
This is Kim from South Korea. He loves Manchester United.
Also – look at the police car with the ‘not authorised flags’ on top. Surely they are the €5 from the Aral petrol station..
by ezs | Jun 23, 2006 | evilzenscientist, Technology, Uncategorized
Cingular have managed to turn my US cell phone into a brick while outside the US.
I can dial my voice mail – and that’s it.
Same phone just a few weeks ago was working perfectly – I was in Germany and I could dial globally. Now I just get ‘calls barred’ and a nice message in German.
Cingular are working on it.. Not much fun.
[Edit – I spoke again to the Cingular international support team – they now realise that something got broken on my account. They turned off my international roaming in one of the billing cycles. They said 72 hours to fix it. I said I spend thousands per month with them – fix it tonight or I go to another vendor. They promised by midnight Central time. Nice. Here’s hoping.]
by ezs | Jun 22, 2006 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
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It has been an interesting day for everyone at Novell.
I’ll point you all to Novell’s press release – and to John Dragoon’s CMO blog.
Personally I am really excited to see Ron Hovsepian take the reigns.
Written at: Denver International Airport, Denver, CO
by ezs | Jun 21, 2006 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
I’ve been in two days of business planning and my head hurts.
by ezs | Jun 19, 2006 | blogging, evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
Nice work – Ted gets Dugg (or Digged..) and his traffic hits the roof. Oh – and he beats out Scoble.
by ezs | Jun 18, 2006 | evilzenscientist, Gonetoutah, Uncategorized, Utah
I’ll be away this weekend – and I’ll miss the Utah Arts Festival. That’s always good fun.
I will be around for the Salt Lake City International Jazz Festival – Aoife really liked that last year. Best of all it’s free!
by ezs | Jun 18, 2006 | evilzenscientist, Geocaching, Gonetoutah, Uncategorized
We started Geocaching about four years ago; stopped and started a few times when Aoife was really small – and now we’ve started up again.
The weather is perfect in Utah right now for hunting for caches.
For those that really don’t have any idea on this – from geocaching.com
What is Geocaching?
Geocaching is an entertaining adventure game for gps users. Participating in a cache hunt is a good way to take advantage of the wonderful features and capability of a gps unit. The basic idea is to have individuals and organizations set up caches all over the world and share the locations of these caches on the internet. GPS users can then use the location coordinates to find the caches. Once found, a cache may provide the visitor with a wide variety of rewards. All the visitor is asked to do is if they get something they should try to leave something for the cache.
Photos from today are on the photo album.
by ezs | Jun 17, 2006 | evilzenscientist, fun stuff, Gonetoutah, Uncategorized
I spent the evening getting the mountain bikes out of storage, servicing them, replacing two tyres, adjusting the gears and drivetrain – and finally testing them.
Phew! Hot and dirty. There was so much old oil and dirt in the chain. I spent a lot of time cleaning that and getting everything running well.
Hopefully we will get the chance to go for a ride tomorrow morning.
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