Musings

Catching up on my reading of Joel pointed me to ProFont, a rendition of the Mac 9 point font for Windows, Mac and Linux. I’m a sucker for big screens with small content, so I downloaded it and I’m using it on the 1600x1200 display. People will cry that it’s too small, but I’m the one in front of the computer all day, and I wear glasses - so don’t bother me about that ;-) ...

Raphael of Zoe fame invited me to connect to his LinkedIn network. “Great”, I thought, “pushing 20 connections” and clicked on the supplied link - only to be thrown a 404 Hmm - going directly to LinkedIn brought me this strange page . Whois GoDaddy? Registered through: GoDaddy.com Domain Name: LINKEDIN.COM Created on: 05-May-03 Expires on: 02-Nov-03 Last Updated on: 12-Nov-03 Maybe someone forgot to pay the bill? Or is it just imcompetence? I’ll try again tomorrow ;-) ...

I travelled to Munich today for a very important meeting about my company. Due to the strike of the strike of the railroad workers in Austria, I traversed a tiny part of Austria by bus, curtesy of swiss railroads. Unfortunately that prolonged the trip by 45 minutes. In the afternoon preparations for the meeting that took place at 6. A quick coffee with an old friend in a Biergarten, and then almost 4 hours of meetings with shareholders and investors. ...

Almost two weeks without an entry on the blog - oh god. My faithfull readership (yes - I know that there are some out there) must have turned away in disgust. I have had way to much to do the last couple of weeks, and my “hair turning gray ratio” has accelerated at an uncomfortable pace. While being on the blog-o-pause I have thought a lot about why I blog, what I blog about, why I should continue to do it (and of course about the meaning of life). The last question - thankfully - has the simplest answer: 42 (although, when reading about Danielle and her trial, I think there must be more….) ...

Amazing that something as simple as detaching an attachment from a Notes Document can be so complicated: Post on notes.net that explains how to retrieve the filename of the attachment…

Did I blog this before? Doesn’t matter, it’s an important link… DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide