We sold one sofa on craigslist - now it’s time to sell the other.

We’re in the home straight; final testing for the new Novell Cool Blogs.

I’ve been hitting the test system hard in the last week - making suggestions to the Novell team that are making this happen. There are two main updates - the plan is now to use WordPress for the blog infrastucture; second launch is due ‘next week’.

The internal test system looks really great; all Novell branded and look and feel - but with live blog content. All of your favourite features should be there - comments, trackback, pings - as well as some unique blog posts from Novell’s strongest personalities.

I’ll leave it until announcement time so as not to spoil the surprise - but watch out - this is going to be big!

Special kudos to Mr Jared Nyland from Novell’s web team; he’s been awesome.

Ah - a favourite for Powerpointers world over - Harvey balls (or meatballs in Novell parlance) represent the relative impact of various options.

I found a great font with the balls in here - soniacoleman.com -  and some great graphics here.
A sidenote: “Harvey balls” are named after their inventor–Harvey Poppel, a partner in the international consulting firm Booz Allen.