Blog posts during February 2006

Spread the love14 Feb 2006

This was sent to the all the users of Obsidian's jabber server so I thought I would share with everyone else.

Hello, possums....

Happy Valentine's day, from a not-so secret admirer, namely me. Why do I admire you? For using my server despite all the arbitrary messages (like this one) that I send you in the dark of night; for all the comments, feedback and, of course, compliments you've given me over the years; for your company 24 hours a day, no matter what I'm doing. Thank you.

So today, I urge you to spread the love people! Walk up to someone you don't know, or even someone you do know, give them a hug and let them know why you admire them. Compliments are some of the most powerful medicine known to man, you could change somebody's day, their week, who knows, maybe even their year or their life. Give it a go.

Love
the wibble
aka Warren

Podcasting conspiracy theories10 Feb 2006

I work on a podcast directory aimed at southern africa called Podcast SA. Today the owner of the site tells me that MWeb is interested in a "partnership" with Podcast SA. I found this rather interesting but I knew that some thing like this would happen sooner or later since its a high profile domain. Anyway less then an hour ago I found PodFarm, which was launched this month, who seem to be doing the same sort of thing as Podcast SA and is run by Internet Solutions.

I don't know if these two events are related, it remains to be seen, but I think things are going to get very interesting as bandwidth becomes increasingly available in South Africa.

Software Galore09 Feb 2006

I like messing around with software especially Open Source Software. So I've decided to list some my favourite projects.

First up is Jabber I've actually like four (two servers and two clients) programs but for good reason as you will see. First on my list is Wildfire (server)and Spark (client), Wildfire (aka Jive Messenger when I first started using it) in the fist server I ever tried using, its a great piece of software and the feature
score (97%) on jabber.org is well deserved. Through Spark and Spark
Manager into the mix and you have a very well rounded enterprise jabber network ready to go.