Dilbert mirrors real life August 30, 2006
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Beautiful thing August 28, 2006
Posted by evilzenscientist in : evilzenscientist , add a comment37signals won’t let me post an image 
Here’s my beautiful thing:
Windows Live Writer August 14, 2006
Posted by evilzenscientist in : blogging,evilzenscientist , add a commentMicrosoft are renowed for getting ‘usability’ right with their products.
Windows Live Writer is no exception.
Three things I like:
- 1. Installation is easy.
- Download, install – then point at this blog url – and it detected I was running WordPress without any problems.
- No fiddling with the correct url for the XML-RPC side of things. No need to remember that I’m running WordPress. (Remember – this is easy for non-technical people)
- 2. It looks good.
- Hey – I can use Textpad, Wordpad, Pico, Joe, VI or just pipe from the shell if I need to. But often it’s a lot easier just to have something that works and works well.
- It looks a lot like Word – or any other Microsoft Office app.
- 3. In place preview – with your theme.
- Oooh – this is a sexy feature. Look at the screen shots.
Miguel on Mono August 12, 2006
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I don’t usually link to Microsoft – this time is an exception.
There is a fascinating interview on Microsoft Technet Port 25.
Here’s the link – http://port25.technet.com/archive/2006/08/11/Let_2700_s-talk-Mono_3A00_–Sam-interviews-Miguel-de-Icaza.aspx
Firewall woes August 11, 2006
Posted by evilzenscientist in : evilzenscientist , add a commentFlaky hard drive in my firewall server.
Time to replace it methinks. It keeps crashing out with bad surface – and bringing down the firewall and squid box.
Trouble for me if there is no web browsing or email!
Late projects August 9, 2006
Posted by evilzenscientist in : evilzenscientist , add a commentI was reminded of this via 37signals.
“How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.â€
Fred Brooks, software engineer and computer scientist
Audible August 6, 2006
Posted by evilzenscientist in : evilzenscientist , add a commentGood success with Audible recently.
I’m currently listening to “Seizing the Enigma” by David Kahn; I just finished “Defying Hitler” by Sebastien Haftner and also “Dare to Be a Daniel” by Tony Benn.
I’m really into historical non-fiction; I also really prefer the unabridged 10 hours of listening to the shorter abridged versions.
WordCamp August 5, 2006
Posted by evilzenscientist in : Evangelism,WordCamp,blogging,evilzenscientist,wordpress , add a commentSo I’m in San Francisco at the WordPress Community geek-fest that is WordCamp.
It’s kinda interesting – the usual [x]camp format; the usual 80/20 mix of hackers and non-hackers; the lack of power outlets…
There are a lot of people here who are using WordPress and want more – there is certainly a wave of demand that could see the whole community become a lot stronger.
Spent time in a session this morning on ‘Helping out WordPress’ – the number 1 request is ‘help with support’. I’ll get with a few people and see what can really be done.
After working with Ximian for three years – I’m really wary of reliance on the community; I know it’s active; but without clout nothing moves.
Oh – and I gave out a stack of openSUSE 10.1 DVDs – as well as the link to the running WordPress on openSUSE article that I threw together. I was branded a dreadful person from corporate land for that. The folks at WordCamp who got the openSUSE DVDs were happy though.
Running WordPress on openSUSE
Posted by evilzenscientist in : WordCamp,blogging,evilzenscientist,wordpress , 2 commentsAs promised here is the ‘HOW-TO’ for running WordPress on openSUSE.
This is a simple three step process:
- install and configure openSUSE
- configure apache and mysql
- install WordPress
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Seven Years at Novell August 2, 2006
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