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About Marius

Owner of Henriska Technology and Project Manager by profession.

Rugby World Cup 2007 and RSS feed update for 7 September 2007

Posted on 7 September 2007 by Marius — No Comments ↓

Hope all of you worn your casual day stickers and contributed your bit.

Today is also the start of the Rugby World Cup being held in France. As a patriotic South African I do support the Boks … good luck to them and I honestly think they have the team to bring the cup back.

Now for my feed entries:

Ubuntu Screencasts/Linux —
Free/Open Source software I use or recommend —
Open Standards —
- Microsoft Open XML standards vote foments politics, dismay (News.com)
- ISO votes against fast tracking Microsoft’s Office Open XML (ars technica)
IBM —
Facebook —
- Can You Claim to Be in Social Media without Having a Facebook Account?
- Facebook goes public
Geekdinners —
- 2000 geek dinners via facebook
How to’s —
- How To Install Google Desktop On Ubuntu
- Linux Command-Line Cheat Sheet
WordPress —
- WordPress 2.3 Beta 2
- Community Cloud WordPress Plugin Released
Web Development —
- Python for system administrators
Interesting reads —
- The Art of Building Virtual Communities by Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach

One of Jupiters icy moons — Europa:

Image Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

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Project Management the easy way.

Posted on 6 September 2007 by Marius — No Comments ↓

Now this is how I want to run my projects … would make life so damn easy.

Now only to find the resources to do it.

Technorati Tags: ibm, project management, dilbert

Lotus Collaboration Summit

Posted on 4 September 2007 by Marius — No Comments ↓

Today I attended a Lotus Collaboration Summit that was held here in Cape Town. The more I see and hear about IBM’s new Lotus range of products the more impress I get. Products like Notes 8, Sametime 7.5.1, Quickr 8 and Connections 1 will put IBM back where it should be in the collaboration space. IBM has really embraced the idea of social networking and collaboration with these group of products.

It was also good to see how modern looking these products are by using WEB2.0 technologies.

I am off to go install Notes 8. And I can now even get rid of Word, Excel and Powerpoint since I can do all that within the Notes 8 client.

Technorati Tags: quickr, connections, ibm, sametime, notes, web2.0

Spring and RSS Feed update — 2 September 2007

Posted on 2 September 2007 by Marius — No Comments ↓

Yesterday was supposedly the start of Spring, well you could have fooled me. Not here in Cape Town, it was raining and very winter like.

Onto my RSS feed items for today:

IBM —
- Two IBM Discoveries Add Promise for Nano-Computing
- At I.B.M., a Vacation Anytime, or Maybe None — this is the best thing about working for IBM — I just love working this way.
Linux —
- Next version of Ubuntu announced: The Hardy Heron
- Issue #4 of Full Circle released!
Free/Open Source software I use or recommend —
How-to’s —
- Games: Flight Simulator in Google Earth 4.2
Web development —
- Starting with PHP and AJAX
Internet —
Great insightful reads —
- The Next Killer App – Telepresence
- IT-based Collaboration and the Evolution of Work
Facebook —
- A slap in the Facebook
Fun stuff —
- Follow-on of my Lightsaber entry of a day or so ago – Jedi squirels
Other tidbits —
- Instant Messaging in Afrikaans — for all my Afrikaans readers
- Student and Professor Build Budget Supercomputer — Want to play with one of these
- IBM Lenovo Thinkpad T61P Rewiew — and I want one of these.

With the eclipse earlier this week, I came across this photo. Click on the image for more information.

Credit & Copyright: Yuichi Takasaka

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Blogday and RSS Feed update — 31 August 2007

Posted on 31 August 2007 by Marius — 1 Comment ↓

It is Blog day today so I have to blog. From my RSS Feed reader today:

IBM —
- The Rational Edge: August 2007 issue
- Is PHP the Systems i’s Next RPG?
Facebook —
- Facebook Etiquette
Hobby projects —
Free/Open Source software I use or recommend —
How to’s —
- Where the Web Archives Are
- Hide and Lock a Folder in Windows XP
WordPress —
- For the brave – WordPress 2.3 Beta 1
Fun stuff –
- Â© http://www.gapingvoid.com/
- Â© http://trashmedia.co.za/
Other tidbits —

Table Mountain close up from upper Cape Town:

Image: Marius Bock taken with a Nokia N80

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27dinner Cape Town report back

Posted on 28 August 2007 by Marius — 4 Comments ↓

I actually thought a bit whether I should blog about this months 27dinner. I arrived there somewhere before 7 and left about a hour later. I did not enjoy it at all.

First the good: I touch sides with Dave, Ian, Max, Eric, Henk, Miquel and also met Rafiq eventually face to face. Had a couple of beers and that is where the good ended.

The place was just to crowded. You could not had a decent conversation with anybody since it was so loud. I did not stick around long enough to find out whether anybody ate anything but it must have been a mission to eat anything in a crowded room like that.

I managed to see the first presentation which was about creativity but it was hard to see anything on the screen and I lost most of the talking due to the noise levels.

Maybe it is just me but do not think this venue worked well at all. Still think the Hotel school is an ideal venue and if it only can accommodate around 80 people then we should limit the 27dinner to that number.

More is written here:

Technorati Tags: 27dinner, geekdinner, Cape Town

27dinner in Cape Town

Posted on 26 August 2007 by Marius — No Comments ↓

Tomorrow evening is 27dinner time again in Cape Town. This time around it will be held at Relish Restaurant. Just had a look at the list of people attending and looks like the usual people will be there with a couple of new names I have not seen previously.

Looking forward in seeing all of you.

Technorati Tags: 27dinner, geekdinner

RSS update – 26 August 2007

Posted on 26 August 2007 by Marius — No Comments ↓

Today’s items from my RSS Feedreader:

Free/Open Source software I use or recommend —
How to’s —
- Top 10 Gnome Desktop Tweaks
- Partition and Image Your Hard Drive with the System Rescue CD
Internet and Technology —
IBM —
- alphaWorks – IBM Emerging Technology
- CoScripter – Simplifying Web-based Processes
Cheat Sheets —
- WordPress cheat sheets
Facebook —
- Half of employees blocked from accessing Facebook at work
Photography —
- Take Better Shots with the Nikon Digital Learning Center

Today I share some more Cape Town beauty.

Image: Marius Bock taken with a Nokia N80
This is from a park just behind where I stay overlooking the Hottentots Mountains.

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RSS update – 25 August 2007

Posted on 25 August 2007 by Marius — No Comments ↓

I am back with another update after a hectic week back at week. Why does everything come to a standstill when one goes on leave?

So here it is:

Great insightful reads â€“
- Re-inventing the Corporate Research Lab — Irving Wladawsky-Berger
Space —
- The top 10 views of Earth from space
WordPress —
Internet —
- Japanese Researchers Aim to Replace the Internet
- Shuttleworth appointed to InfraCo board
Linux —
- Power Up Your Linux Desktop With Compiz Fusion
- Linus Torvalds Speaks Out on Future of Linux
Free/Open Source software I use or recommend ([[caution]]: some of these are beta and I take no responsibility when something goes wrong when you use it) —
- Ad-Aware 2007 Reference File 0016.0000
- AutoRuns 8.73
- Free Download Manager 2.5 Build 703
- Pidgin 2.1.1 — replace all you IM clients with one tool
- Ad-Aware 2007 Free 7.0.1.6 Updated — this is the program itself, one above is the ref file.
- AVG Free Edition 7.5.484a1103
- Adobe Flash Player [Moviestar] 9.0.60.184 Beta
- 7-Zip (32-bit) 4.53 Alpha 2 alpha
Facebook —
- Facebook Messaging just got better…
IBM —
- IBM ThinkPad – The End of an Era?
- Changes afoot in Lotus Sametime 8
Hobby Projects —
- Create a Bootable Home Theater PC with GeeXboX
PHP and Web Development —
- Developing applications with Project Zero: Get started with Project Zero and PHP
- phpMyAdmin 2.11.0 is released

It is flower season in the Northern Cape so some flower beauty for you. Click on the image for some more photos and information.

Photos courtesy of Heleen Paxton in Strandfontein. Regards from Namaqualand, Daisy Tel; 027 692 3041 www.hondeklip.co.za

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The Zimmers — rock band with average age 88 – just amazing.

Posted on 22 August 2007 by Marius — No Comments ↓

While I was driving to work yesterday and today, I listened to an interview with The Zimmers on Radio 2000. For those that do not know, The Zimmers is a rock band in the UK with an average age of 88 (Yes, you read correctly). The oldest in the band is 100 and the lead singer is about 90. Listening to these people and their outlook on life put me to shame in my thinking about how we youngsters (yes I am a youngster compared to these people) sometime just give up and moan.

They have a song called “My Generation” — here is a Youtube video of it. It is just amazing.

Next time when you feel down in life just think about these people. If this does not get you going, nothing will.

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