Comments on: Signing off for 2008 http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/signing-off-for-2008/ Your daily IT cuppa Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:45:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jack Hughes http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/signing-off-for-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-7081 Jack Hughes Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:39:59 +0000 http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/?p=1149#comment-7081 Thanks John. If I'm (bluntly) honest I'm not happy with the Tech Teapot at the moment. It feels a bit wishy washy to me and I write the darn thing. I need to make my focus with absolute laser precision. That will be open source network & systems management maybe with some of the lower end commercial tools as well. I think your blog in the cloud space is in a good place right now and that's where I want the Tech Teapot to be. I saw a comment somewhere about your blog saying that it was the "go to" place for the cloud and that's where you have to be. You couldn't identify this blog at the moment as being the "go to" place for anything in particular. As an aside, I got Denis to proof read my signoff post (now I've been royally burnt on that one) and he just casually mentioned that he'd met Kurt Vonnegut when he came to Leeds to do a book reading. God I hate it when people do that. I'd love to have met Vonnegut, he's probably my biggest hero. His books are pretty variable in quality but when they're good they are really good. He's best when he just puts himself into his books like in Slaughter House 5 and his Kilgore Trout character. Timequake, his last book, is pretty much unreadable. I did read the whole lot out of respect but I wouldn't have if it had been anybody else writing it. If you can get hold of the Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun too you'll will be richly rewarded for your trouble. The best sci-fi masquerades as fantasy. I won't spoil it for you by explaining what I mean. ;) Have a great Christmas, see you on the other side. I'm nipping off to my parents now for the Christmas meal with around 11 of my family. Should be lovely. I've even got a table top war game to take on my nephews (or nieces I guess, wouldn't want to be sexist about it). Try to get them off their XBox for a while. My littlest nephew played *16* straight hours on Halo this year. He is unbelievably good at it. Wouldn't surprise me if he went pro at some point. Jack Thanks John. If I’m (bluntly) honest I’m not happy with the Tech Teapot at the moment. It feels a bit wishy washy to me and I write the darn thing. I need to make my focus with absolute laser precision. That will be open source network & systems management maybe with some of the lower end commercial tools as well. I think your blog in the cloud space is in a good place right now and that’s where I want the Tech Teapot to be. I saw a comment somewhere about your blog saying that it was the “go to” place for the cloud and that’s where you have to be. You couldn’t identify this blog at the moment as being the “go to” place for anything in particular.

As an aside, I got Denis to proof read my signoff post (now I’ve been royally burnt on that one) and he just casually mentioned that he’d met Kurt Vonnegut when he came to Leeds to do a book reading. God I hate it when people do that. I’d love to have met Vonnegut, he’s probably my biggest hero. His books are pretty variable in quality but when they’re good they are really good. He’s best when he just puts himself into his books like in Slaughter House 5 and his Kilgore Trout character. Timequake, his last book, is pretty much unreadable. I did read the whole lot out of respect but I wouldn’t have if it had been anybody else writing it.

If you can get hold of the Gene Wolfe’s Book of the New Sun too you’ll will be richly rewarded for your trouble. The best sci-fi masquerades as fantasy. I won’t spoil it for you by explaining what I mean. ;)

Have a great Christmas, see you on the other side. I’m nipping off to my parents now for the Christmas meal with around 11 of my family. Should be lovely. I’ve even got a table top war game to take on my nephews (or nieces I guess, wouldn’t want to be sexist about it). Try to get them off their XBox for a while. My littlest nephew played *16* straight hours on Halo this year. He is unbelievably good at it. Wouldn’t surprise me if he went pro at some point.
Jack

]]> By: botchagalupe http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/signing-off-for-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-7080 botchagalupe Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:39:31 +0000 http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/?p=1149#comment-7080 Hey Dude, It's been a fun year doing the blog-banter thing. I love your site and i am expecting great stuff in 2009 from the Teapot. Elements of Style and Slaughterhouse 5 seem like the perfect prescription for my holiday reading list as well. However, spinning near 50yrs I think it might be a little late for me to ever get those commas right. Have a great holiday. Botchagalupe Hey Dude,

It’s been a fun year doing the blog-banter thing. I love your site and i am expecting great stuff in 2009 from the Teapot. Elements of Style and Slaughterhouse 5 seem like the perfect prescription for my holiday reading list as well. However, spinning near 50yrs I think it might be a little late for me to ever get those commas right.

Have a great holiday.
Botchagalupe

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