Apr

Quick Update

Another in the series of short and sweet bullet list posts. Hmm, let’s see what have I been busy with in the last week or so..

Last Wednesday was a record day, I ended up in being in meetings for more that 12 hours in total.
The all new Ubuntu was released. We updated the Frogfoot Grid page.. you can now order an Ubuntu 8.04 LTS server and we updated the datacentre graphic at the top of the page as promised.
Our Pirate Radio t-shirts arrived. We’ll hand them out soon.
I upgraded my laptop to the new Ubuntu version. It was not 100% painless.. because of the lame Broadcom wifi card in this HP, but it’s all working well now. Seems there is native kernel support for my wifi card now. Sweet.
I’m on holiday for the week. Woot! Well it’s more like a long long-weekend. Went sailing in Gordons Bay on Friday, Awesome sunset. Took Mia to the beach on Saturday. Another awesome sunset. Spent Sunday in Rooiels with Mia and the WSE. On Tuesday I took some panoramic pics, had some interesting German beer, a braai in Stellenbosch and drinks at Fandango’s. I seem to be in an Asoka/Fandango’s pattern lately. Oh, yeah I converted somebody to using Firefox at the braai (-:
Monday was the ~~nerds~~ geeks on a train event. About 20 facebook friends traveled from Newlands to Simon’s Town by train. Nice views all along the coastal track. R25 for a tourist pass to hop on and off as you like. We stopped for beer and food in Kalk Bay. I found a nice book in the Kalk Bay bookstore. Soaked up some sun. Had a few good laughs. Made new friends. A fun day.
I watched Run, Fatboy, Run today (yes, at the Labia). From the same breed as Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead. Good movie. It hit home. Seems it’s possible to get all deep about a comedy.
Just returned from a Heavy Chef gathering at Hatfields restaurant in Hatfield Street, Gardens. I live in Gardens but I drove around for 10min trying to find this place. Weird street naming was to blame. We listened to a very good presentation by Phil Barrett about user experience design (UX). Interesting topic. Just like you get font-geeks, you get UX-geeks. Ran into Mr. Eric E. who updated me on his new venture.