We joined Recycle Utah a month or so ago – supporting recycling locally.
We’ve now started composting again (a three year gap since we were in England), seperating recyclable glass and generally trying to cut down on the general trash we throw out.
I also signed up for the Utah Power green energy program – to power our web server farm.
Every little helps.
There was a thought provoking article in the Salt Lake Tribune today about this.
I dug out a few old books that I want to re-read in the coming weeks:
253 – Geoff Ryman – here online.
Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow – Peter Høeg
The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
I can’t find my copy of Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaardner – I’m trying to think who I lent it to..
Most of these books are from about ten years ago 🙂 I must be getting nostalgic.
The other thing I noticed – Amazon US has a very strange idea about books originally published in the UK. The dates and covers are all wrong!
March has been a month of change; I’ll explain more next week.
Following on from Cluetrain – I found this:
Post BrainShare and it’s back to real work!
Today Novell released the online demonstration of ZENworks Asset Management. This runs in Firefox or Internet Explorer – and lets you see the power of ZENworks Asset Management live – without having to install a single piece of code.
Take a look – and let us know what you think. We will be posting a ‘walk through script’ in the next day or so – that will let you get the most from your time online.
Written at: Draper, UT
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It is the weekend after BrainShare – so I guess it’s going to be pretty slow for most of the Novell Cool Bloggers for a couple of days.
Personally – I had a great time this last week; running with some really entertaining and informative keynotes (Wednesday and Thursday), breakout sessions – as well as analyst and press events.
The highlight as always was meeting with customers and partners – you really are knowlegable, loyal – and remarkably well informed 
One final piece of BrainShare that I need to plug are the ‘from the show floor’ podcasts from Ted Haeger and Novell Open Audio. Take a look here at the list of current short podcasts – Ted and the team seemed to have got behind the scenes and talked to everyone at BrainShare.
Written at: Draper, UT
At Novell BrainShare we showed World of Warcraft running on Linux – it was one of the highlights of the relaxation zone!
This is from TransGaming Technologies – I’ll need to look into this some more.
BrainShare is over for another year.
I’m sitting having a beer with Alan Murray and listening to goth and alternative music at Murphy’s Bar in Salt Lake City. A fine way to wind down.
Written at: Murphy’s Bar, Salt Lake City, UT
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Another cool site to emerge at BrainShare 2006 is Novell Marketing Videos
Featuring fun videos and customer showcases from the last few years – it’s a great site. [Kudos to Russ Dastrup and the team for getting these posted.]
My favourite? Flying boy.
Written at: BrainShare 2006, Salt Lake City, UT
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I have been working all week on a ZENworks lifecycle demo and session – part of this involves delivering a consistent Windows XP SP2 operating system to workstations, in an automated, hands-free manner. Certainly this toolkit has saved us days of time in building our demonstrations.
Part of the solution has seen us integrate the ENGL Imaging Toolkit into our demo; this allows the creation of a ‘universal image’ – it works well. In our demo we have a single 800MB Windows XP image that can be delivered to any type of hardware – Dell, IBM, HP, Lenovo, whitebox and even VMware.
The ENGL Imaging Toolkit has a great write-up in the current Novell Connection Magazine. Read it here.
[STOP PRESS – ENGL were awarded Novell EMEA Partner of the Year at BrainShare 2006 this week]
Written at: BrainShare 2006, Salt Lake City, UT
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