Musings

Snow covered trees in Visperterminen Technorati Tags: visperterminen

Time for looking back at the year that was, and the year that’s coming, the good and the bad. Mezzoblue tipped me of, Ben Poole paved the way. Apple 2005 is the year I made the switch. I’m using a 15" PowerBook for nearly all my work now. This Laptop is the single best investment I ever made in IT technology. Everything from the beautiful design, the quietness, the tactile feel, speed, display and of course OS X make me happy. In my wake, another 5 or 6 people have switched to Apple and all of them (including my mother, who got a Mac Mini for X-Mas) are happy with it. Personally, I’m hoping for an Intel based Apple Laptop next year, that allow me to run Lotus Notes through something like Darwine or some secret Apple Technology. Then I could drop my old PC Laptop for good. ...

I wish you and your families a wonderful x-max, a happy new year and some well deserved days of peace and quiet. I’ll be gone for a couple of days, hopefully to sun and snow, skiing and drinking wine. Expect light to no blogging. Oh and yes - This blog has moved to Wordpress. Please update any necessary links etc. Layout etc. will change over the next couple of days, this is just the start. ...

Can I crash is a list of bloggers giving room to fellow bloggers when traveling. Initiated by Henriette Weber Andersen. Cool idea. I have added Zurich, Switzerland, when will you add your place? Technorati Tags: blog, crash, travel

Yep, I can manage the occasional SELECT * FROM some_table; and even one or two constructs more. But I haven’t had a formal education in SQL (me being a Lotus Notes guy. (“Redundancy is good”). The GalaxQL program is a wonderful introduction to SQL and covers quite a bit more than just the WHERE statement. It’s fun, it’s visual, it’s free and it runs on Windows, Mac and Linux. Go get it, if you need a brush up on SQL. ...

Even though you haven’t seen me post on this blog recently, I have been busy deleting comment spam all the time. My MoveableType installation is pretty old, and the SpamFiltering solution is quite old too. Everything runs on a creaky server out of my office. Also I’m not to fond of fiddling with the layout of the blog (although web visitors might have noticed some changes) because it means I have to republish the complete site. ...