Month: March 2007

Skaak Saterdag

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Sien op Tania se blog oor die Skaak ding Saterdag by Fandango … ek is seker Tania soek net skaak spelers soos ek wat sy kan wen.  Ek kan ongelukkig dit nie maak nie … daai familie verpligtinge wat mens van tyd tot tyd moet doen.  Sou graag daar wou wees al was dit net om mense in lewende lywe te ontmoet — sal maar moet wag tot die volgende keer of een van die Geekdinners of 27Dinners.

Vandag moet ek die verkeersdepartement gaan trotseer — my kredietkaart bestuurslisensie moet hernu word.  Sien nou regtig nie uit daarna nie … hopelik is daar nie veel mense in die ry by Durbanville nie.

PS. For my non-Afrikaans visitors … if you need a translation of this then just shout — it is about chess and drivers license.

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I am twittering

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Have eventually took the plunge and joined Twitter to see what it is all about.  What is all this fuss everybody talks about.  Do I really want the world to know what I am doing all the time.

I tried to update my Twitter via GTalk but cannot get to work. So the only way to update it at the moment is via the web interface.  Yes know one can also do it via SMS but that is way to expensive just to tell the world something totally arbitrary.

Update 14 March: Twittering with GTalk works …

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Now this sucks

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Voting is open for SA Blog Awards and as a colleague and friend of mine has the best blog in SA I wanted to go an cast my vote. Well the voting site have problems …

Warning: mysql_pconnect() [function.mysql-pconnect]: #08004Too many connections in /usr/www/users/sabloga/includes/db.class.php on line 27
Sorry, cannot connect to the database.

Please guys, fix your site … get somebody that knows a bit about MySQL and up those connections .. cannot think that on a Sunday morning you should run out of connections. How many connections do you allow — 10??

While I am at it .. if you have never read Tertia’s blog ‘So Close’, please do yourself a favor and read it.  Yes, it talks a lot about female stuff like PMS, infertility, babies but she writes it in such a way that us males even enjoy reading it.

BTW Tertia, figured out how to get you blog via RSS feed for my feedreader.  Will show you on Monday so you can add a link somewhere for all the people that does not use Bloglines or Google Reader.

Update: The error is fixed and I casted my vote … so Tertia, if you win that MacBook then you owe me …

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IBM Software Live!

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Spend the whole of yesterday at an IBM Software Live! day presented by 2 of my American coleagues – Doug Spencer and Jeff Reynolds (Kelly, you probably know Jeff since he also originated from Rational)

As fairly new to IBM it was good to see the range of IBM software products and wow what a range .. Covered from Tivoli on the monitoring side, Lotus on the people side, Websphere on the middleware side, Rational on the development side and then Information Management on content/data side.

Also good to see IBM’s direction with Web 2.0 and products like Connections and Quickr.  And then the support for open standards and open source.

The venue was great (Mount Nelson hotel in Cape Town) and the food was great.  Oh and a customer of mine walked away with an Apple iPod Nano in a lucky draw. Good for you Simon. Yes, us IBMers were not allowed to throw our business cards into the bowl 🙂

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This realy shows my age … the world of IBM mainframes

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I just read an entry by Mark Cathcart called Looking back, Unix System Services, Linux et al.

I started my computing life on VM systems way way back, and the fact that I actually know all the acronyms and terms that Mark was using, say’s a lot. This trip down memory lane gave a very good insight into how IBM looked at Unix and then in the later years Linux on their big systems.  I still do not know whether I totally agree or like with the i, x, p and z Series names for IBM’s hardware.  I so much more liked it when it was called 360 Systems, 390’s, 9375’s etc and OS/390 or MVS, VM etc.

Every year I hear somebody say that the mainframe is dying but it just goes from strength to strength.  When it comes to reliability, scalability and pure cost/performance then nothing beats it … even if you throw a multi CPU clustered Intel or AMD machine at it.

When looking at how IBM implement and innovate around Linux, I am confident that in years to come Linux will play an integral role in helping business in optimizing their computing requirements. As an Open Source and Linux supporter, I will use these solutions more and more in my dealings with my customers and clients.

Lastly, I am so glad that the WIN32 API was never implemented and used in the IBM software stack.  Just imagine the situation IBM might have been in today …

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South Africans in Ireland for Lotusphere event

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See from Ed that some South Africans will attend a Lotusphere Comes to you event. Wonder who this South Africans are and hope they are going to take some notes so that they can bring the event also to us poor sods that have to stay behind here in South Africa.

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