We’ve been moving the Unicity servers to new hosted premises, and upgrading from an old SPARC based Solaris server to Solaris 10 on x86. It’s taken some time, with Jim doing most of it. We’ve been upgrading the services from fairly old versions of things to newer and more feature… Read More
My last day for my current client is coming up later this week. I’m really looking forward to being able to spend some time on personal projects. There are a bunch of things that I’ve had on the back burner that are going to get onto a front burner for… Read More
The new version of seafelt Performance Manager is collecting data and saving it successfully to the database. This is a major milestone on the way to the release of version 3.0. The backend collector has been almost completely rewritten to use the Storm Object Request Modeller, which provides significant correctness,… Read More
Wow. Barack Obama actually won. Fantastic! I can only imagine the energy and elation that must be reverberating around certain quarters of the USA right now. I know that most of my friends and colleagues who live there are feeling good about politics for the first time in years. There… Read More
I’ve been herding Deferred chains in seafelt Performance Manager version 3 today. It’s getting there, but today wasn’t an amazingly productive day, unfortunately. Perhaps fish oil supplements really do make a difference? I forgot to take one this morning, and my brain just hasn’t been firing as well. Hopefully I’ll… Read More
I am never going to look at a pair of business socks the same way again. Auds and I watched a bunch more Flight of the Conchords episodes last night, and yes, it has definitely grown on me. There were a couple of lines that made me laugh harder than… Read More
Auds and I rented the whole first series last night. We made it 3 episodes in before she fell asleep. Aha. It’s quite good, but an acquired taste, I think. It’s been laugh out loud funny once, but it’s mostly just chuckleworthy. I’m hoping that as I get more familiar… Read More
As you can probably see, I’ve change the site quite substantially. It’s quite a big move, overall. I’ve dropped Zope in favour of WordPress. Zope has been fine for my own software, but for blogging, it sucks. The blog software that’s available for Zope is pretty unfriendly, slow to be… Read More
I’ve been reading the book The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman this week. It’s really cool. It covers many of the same things as the behavioral economics master class link I posted a couple of days ago. It’s all about how things are often poorly designed, so… Read More
Today I started a professional mentoring program with a friend and colleague of mine: Roger Mannett. He has kindly agreed to act as my mentor, and today was our first meeting in that vein. I’ve long admired Roger professionally. I had the pleasure of working for him during my days… Read More
