Archive for July, 2006

We Love Computers Too

Friday, July 21st, 2006

It’s a funny time in Hursley at the moment. With lots of people being away on holiday it feels a little empty. That’s not to say it’s been very quiet. The last two weeks have been work experience time in the local area, so there’s been a lot of school age people [...]

Hursley’s Melting

Wednesday, July 19th, 2006

Over Christmas we were having lots of debate about the temperature and lack of a cold snap, in the Hursley area. To be a little more scientific about it I climbed out a stairwell window, braved the thorny raspberry bushes and attached a thermometer to to my old office window (now belongs to Roo [...]

Emerging Tech T-Shirts

Sunday, July 16th, 2006

As well as producing software products, IBM Software Group has a high output of T-Shirts. If you work in Hursley as part of the Java, MQ, CICS, WebSphere or Lotus development teams, the chances are you have one/several/a shop of team T-Shirts. Now, computer geeks like T-Shirts and not being part of [...]

Hursley Bloggers Meetup

Thursday, July 13th, 2006

We had a bit of a Hursley bloggers meetup today. There’s now quite a few UK based IBMers blogging inside and outside the firewall. We’re lucky to have a good internal blogging setup and most of the people who now write publicly got to grips with the whole idea in the relative [...]

More reaction to the baseball in secondlife from Cnet

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

MLB were pleasantly suprised by the positive reaction to the baseball in second life. There is more to it that just the building though.

Blogging from Second Life

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

Here’s something cool: the ability to post to a shared community blog from inside Second Life. Check out bloghud. Can’t try it out myself for a couple of weeks, and no doubt by the time I get back Roo will have created his own version which is much funkier…

Baby Linden Second Life in Second Life

Tuesday, July 11th, 2006

We have a nickname for the baby. Last time it was Herbert/Herbertina. This time I have started calling the baby Linden. So it is natural to put the picture in second life and capture him or her on Snapziila

Live at MLB second life game

Tuesday, July 11th, 2006

Live at the Second Life Home run Derby

Trademarks, and presence in the metaverse

Monday, July 10th, 2006

Terranova have a good set of resources on trademarks in a virtual world

Baseball Sneek peek

Monday, July 10th, 2006

Hank Hoodoo sent me a message in Second Life that the baseball stadium was open to haev a look around. So I did