I recently noticed that Disney is about to release Bambi 2 on DVD. It will then join Junglebook 2, Cinderella 2 and Mulan 2 in the “unwanted sequel” category. Is this maybe a new trend? Will we se a Snow white 2 before long? and maybe a sequel to the Santa’s workshop short we watch every christmas? It makes me sad to see Disney destroying the experience of the originals by trying to milk out a few more dollars.
Server service
Updated server with RAID-controller. I also removed unused DVB-cards, flat cables and hard disk mounting cages. The last, together with another fan and dust removal, helped improve cooling. The system is now down to 38 centigrades from ~50. It also makes more noise.
Updated wordpress
Updated to wordpress 2.0. To celebrate the change visually, I also changed theme to “Ocadia”.
Still have a cold, as I’ve had all christmas. Not fun at all.
New box
The perfect companion for the new TV; a new DVB-T receiver. This one is equipped with a hard drive. Its a revolution for our viewing habits. No more rushing through the evening meal so that the girls won’t miss the beginning of Bolibompa. Now we can press the pause button at 17:59:50 and then play when they have cleaned their plates. No hurry in the world. Not only the perfect dinner-aid, it allowed me to finish making some marcipan pralines before going off to view “PÃ¥ spÃ¥ret”. As a bonus I could fast forward past the most boring parts of the program and enjoy the highligts better. Soon the old VHS VCR can be retired for good. There are a few tapes to transfer to DVD first.
Information, at last!
Yesterday morning we (me and my fellow emplyees at OMX) were finally called to a meeting where the great mystery was revealed. No, nothing supernatural or otherworldy, or even remotely related to extra-terrestrial activity, just something as simple as finally telling us who our new partner is.
My part of the company, Banks&Brokers development will be merged with a similar part of Tieto-Enator to form a yet-to-be-named joint-venture company, internally called newCo.
This wasn’t a flash from above; we’ve known since September that it was comming. The news is that the partner is now official. No one was at all surprised, since most of the speculation was leaning towards TE.
Finally an end to all speculation.
Here is the press-release from OMX.