Last week I went to Fulda in Germany to attend the OpenNMS European User Conference. OpenNMS is an open source network management system which we make fairly heavy use of at work. The conference was an opportunity to catch up on developments in the project and get a sense of how it was being used. …
It seems any severe weather brings on a large collective national moan. I don’t wish to minimise the hassle to people that have been affected by the weather and trapped in places they didn’t want to be however I think we are often too quick to criticise when things don’t quite work out how we …
Well I finally made it to South Africa for my whistle-stop tour south of the equator. I managed to get an exit seat so I wasn’t too confined. During the 10 hours of flight I reckon I managed to achieve about 2 hours of somnolent state which has been enough to get me to the …
I should be on a plane at this point, however ash has conspired to cancel my connecting flight this morning. I’m now re-booked onto another flight this evening so I’ll still be in South Africa in time for meetings just on considerably less sleep. The weekend was lovely and relaxed. We attended to some wedding …
The ramifications of the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull continue to rumble on as people suddenly find themselves stranded and reminded that the Earth is actually quite a big place. Meanwhile it’s news that EU ministers co-ordinating a response has a video conference to discuss the response to the transport paralysis. I find it interesting that the …
I got back from my Hungarian adventures at a slightly more reasonable time than Wednesday mornings departure. Never the less I find travel still zaps the energy out of me. On Friday night I managed to eat dinner before crawling upstairs and passing out. Saturday has been ably documented elsewhere and basically involved a large …
After finishing work around midday I took advantage of the rest of the day to go and do a little exploring around town. There is a handy tourist bus which does a 24 hour ticket and runs a continuous loop around the principle tourist points. Hopefully I’ll get a second stab at using my ticket …
I’ve spent about 4 hours traveling today and about 3 hours in the clients offices. Everything went fairly smoothly and despite occasional language impeadence I’ve only gained an extra 3-4 feature requests, none of which should be too tricky to implement. I’ll probably pop into our local partners office tomorrow morning for a write-up before …
The weekend was a relatively quite one. I took advantage of the temporary loan of my Dad’s bike to pay a visit into town and tick of a number of tasks in preparation for Christmas. This included by first every cut-throat* trim of the Winter Beard to prevent it going too wild. Other tasks included …