Software

Excellent article by Seth Godin about the perils of PowerPoint. Just look what it did to the poor pigeon.

Meet Dan Morrison. His main aim in life is :- Currently dedicated to linking all IT professionals together in one network so they can find each other and communicate. Don’t scoff. Dan already has 93,822 connections (including me) on ITtoolbox so he’s very nearly half way there. Dan - Let me know when you’ve finished and I’ll have that list of email addresses in exchange for a box of vintage 1980’s records. ...

People never ask me: ‘Norman - why don’t you post a pretty Zoho chart of your blog posting frequency by month ?’

I could write a thesis about this but a picture will have to suffice.

Great news. Bill Gates has heeded my advice and I will be able to purchase Vista online and download the media. This means that I no longer have to buy an expensive box full of fresh air from Microsoft. Burning a DVD is probably still recommended just in case the seamless Windows upgrade fails and I discover, to my horror, that none of my drivers work any more and I have to format the hard disk in order to boot the computer. ...

I have experimented with many different RSS readers in the past. However, in recent months, nothing has managed to dislodge NetVibes as my preferred feed reader. However, I still occasionally use Google Reader and like the recent addition of detailed statistics about your RSS subscriptions and reading habits. Matt Cutts posts an example of his own data and Robert Scoble also likes the new features.

Drupal gets an upgrade to 4.7.4 via the Bluehost Fantastico auto-installer. The Wiki gets converted to MediaWiki simply because it is a lot easier on the eye. This software requires PHP5 and I was originally on a server running PHP4. However I read that Bluehost does also support PHP5. I just asked politely and got moved to a different server. No fuss. No questions. Technical support just did it. Quickly and efficiently. ...

Today I have accepted a new and challenging position after a series of gruelling, demanding interviews and in depth technical tests. My new role is working for Dreamhost as a BMC Patrol Monitor Agent. My key responsibilities are as follows: Write a blog article offline using Performancing. Post draft. Preview article in WYSIWG format on the blog. Blog is slow and unresponsive. ssh to Dreamhost server which is slow and unresponsive. Run ‘w’ to determine load average which is slow and unresponsive. Raise ticket with Dreamhost technical support. Wait for a period of time. The performance problem is ‘resolved’. Perm any one from: ...

Just downloaded Firefox 2.0 RC3 and it worked a lot better then my previous experience. My lengthy list of extensions (or add-ons as they are now called) also worked fine. Google Browser Sync CoComment Performancing My thoughts now turn to the day when Microsoft unleash IE7 on the world through automatic updates to universal acclaim apart from my wife who will comment ‘Why did they have to go and change everything ?’

I might have been dreaming but I swear that the load average on this DreamHost server was over 400. Now I realise DreamHost is offering inexpensive, shared hosting but this is a little excessive. I just wish they’d told me I would be co-hosted with Amazon, Yahoo and eBay.