For a while now I have advocated some open source software over it's proprietary equivalents - for some clients a simple change away from MS Office can be a saving of over a million dollars per year (every year!) in licensing costs. I tell people that if they are that keen to get rid of their money, switch to Open Office and donate the money to a ( Read more... )

Euro2008 kicks off in a couple of hours and I still cant decide who to go for. Probably portugal, but I also like to watch france and i really wish the netherlands would get up... but they never really seem to quite get it together for the big matches. Well I'm going to be watching the Portugal - Turkey game later today and I cant wait ( Read more... )

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last week i finally started work with the new company which has been interesting. the beginning of the week started with a million pieces of paper to fill out and send away for everything from medical plans to visa documentation and everything in between. Why in the era of the web we still fill out forms on pulped tree matter and then employ people ( Read more... )

Just a quick note before I make a cross town dash for the pool comp: had a farewell dinner for gaelfarce with the lovely wickedity last night which was cool. As Theo hadn't been to the Cross we took him to Dean's where he ate the Monstrous Nacho by himself. Yes, wiki2, you read correctly! But Theo is a big boy, as can be seen by the pictures, which make me look like his ( Read more... )

I had an awesome weekend - Ange, a very close friend of mine who has just got back into town from China where she has been teaching english, stayed over and hung out which rocked. Sadly she is doing a whirlwind tour before flying out to Berlin where she will be taking up a new position. On the upside, I now have a good reason to go back to that ( Read more... )