WordPress updates
WordPress 2.0.3 was released a short time ago – I upgraded with no problems.
Looks like there were some new issues introduced – meaning that WordPress 2.0.4 has been added to the roadmap.
Novell Open Audio – ZENworks 7 SP1 .. and a few other things
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I’ll be interviewed by Ted Haeger and Erin Quill tomorrow for Novell Open Audio.
I opened the question list up on Cool Blogs last week – and I’ve got about half a dozen things to cover specifically from the readers of Cool Blogs.
One other request that came in directly to my inbox – ezs@novell.com – is to ‘go behind the scenes’ at Open Audio. I’ll certainly have my camera and I’ll get some pictures and stories uploaded tomorrow evening. I’ll also have some really crunchy Doritos to pass around..
Written at: Draper, UT
World Cup 2006
I’m in Ottawa – watching England v Paraguay.
This is my second world cup outside the UK – during the last tournament we were in Utah doing our relocation visit. I distinctly remember sitting in a hotel room watching England play.
This morning I found the match on the TV in my hotel. I watched the first England goal with dispassionate Chinese commentary. That really didn’t help me. So I hunted around – and now I’ve found that match with real BBC commentary. Beautiful.
An Inconvenient Truth
"An Inconvenient Truth" looks to be one of those films that changes your life.Nice to see Utah getting with it.When I checked a week or so ago - one showing across the whole state. Now I see five.
We'll be going on 16th June.
ZENworks on Novell Open Audio
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Next week I will be recording a slot for Novell Open Audio on ZENworks 7 Support Pack 1. That’s due for release in the very near future – and I’ll be talking about some of the new platforms we will support and a new feature that we’ll be rolling into the release.
I’ll also take the chance to answer any questions that you post on this blog – so here’s your chance.
Post your ZENworks related questions here – and I’ll select the best ones to answer on Open Audio next week. If you leave your name I’ll even give you a mention.
Looking forward to those questions. Remember – anything goes 
Written at: Draper, UT
LDS Missionaries
I’ve been travelling to Utah to work for about nine years now – first with Intel then with Novell; I’ve lived and worked in the state for nearly four years.
When I first visited one of my colleagues from the LANDesk team – a returned LDS missionary and LDS Bishop – told me that missionaries always wave if you sound your horn and wave when you drive past them.
That started a silly game. “Honking at Missionaries”. Don’t blame me. Blame a Bishop from Pleasant Grove, UT.
In the past nine years I’ve had fun honking at missionaries in Nottingham, London, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Manchester in the UK. Also in Auckland, New Zealand, Sydney and Melbourne, Australia – and in many places across the US.
Most fun is the high concentration in Utah itself. I always honk and wave; I’ve got a 100% hit rate on the return wave.
I’d be really interested to hear from any return-missionaries – is this part of the training at the MTC? Or are missionaries just ‘nice people’…
Disclaimer: I’m not LDS and this really was started by an LDS Bishop..
Starbucks in Utah
Utah is not exactly a hotbed of coffee drinkers and coffee lovers.. In fact with the LDS faith being predominant most coffee produced is downright dreadful.
A couple of exceptions – Coffee Garden at 9th and 9th in Salt Lake is consistently good; as is Juice n Java in Provo.
Starbucks is a reliable standard too; when we moved here four years ago there were three stores. Now there are dozens. We stopped by our newest local store tonight – on Highland Drive at about 7800 South.
ITIL Foundation Certificate exam
Finally pulled my finger out and went to sit the ISEB ITIL Foundation Certificate exam.
Usual laziness – book the exam, read the book, sit the exam. 40 multiple choice questions; over in less than 10 minutes. I passed.
Save our Sauce
HP sauce. Food of the gods. Made in Birmingham for years.
Even my good friend Alan from Halifax, Nova Scotia loves it.
HP sauce. Perfect on sausages, greasy fry-ups, veggy burgers, chops – pretty much anything.
The company that bought out the HP brand are now threatening to move production; not to another site within the UK; but to Holland.
Not unsurprisingly there is uproar in Birmingham. Now there is even an online petition – http://www.saveoursauce.co.uk. I urge all HP sauce lovers to show their support.
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… there was Planet Novell.
Apologies. I paraphrased and plagiarised.
A planet is “a flexible feed aggregator” – in other words a centralised, ephemeral collection of similar(ish) themed blog posts. A popular implementation is at Planet Planet!
Planet Novell was a pretty busy, reasonably well known site. It has been gone for a while.
Why mention it now?
One thing that was mentioned in the ‘Cool Blogs 1.5‘ project was aggregating Cool Blogs posts from the bloggers own blogs.
A logical extension of this is to resurrect the Novell Planet concept – and really combine all feeds from all Novell bloggers. Not Cool Blogs – where generally we tend to stick to blogging about Novell and our technology but everything from these bloggers – and more. That means posts from Nat, Miguel, Reverend Ted, Michael Meeks – pretty much everyone from Novell and SUSE who blogs – even me.
What do you think? It’ll certainly be an interesting additional insight into how Novell operates – and there’s likely to be a lot of non-technology blogging. A useful companion site to Cool Blogs; or not?
Let us know! We’re going to be working next week in our staging lab testing a lot of the new features.
Written at: Draper, UT
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