This may be contrary to corporate blogging guidelines but still… Just had the formal feedback from my annual review and it is excellent news. Seeboard - monthly bill down to £38 (down from £60) per month.

The Killers (Glastonbury 2005) has successfully been converted from DVD to WAV format and to ATRAC format on a CD. Thanks to two excellent software tools: MediaCoder (DVD to MP3 converter) and Audacity.

‘Yes. It is an 0800 number which is free. However, there is a charge of 10p per minute’ Newcastle Hilton Hotel.

Microsoft announce Virtual Server 2005 is now freely available. Whatever you can do, we can do (but a bit later).

A couple of years ago, I was working in Amsterdam (near Holland) chasing world records for loading lots of data into a Siebel database. It wasn’t working very well. The client was unhappy so long hours were called for. The Unix team said the expensive SAN was performing optimally. The DBA team said Oracle was performing optimally. The Siebel team said Siebel was performing optimally. Alex Ferguson unexpectedly joined a conference call and said the Manchester United team were performing optimally. ...