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PvZ

What can I say. It’s an amazingly fun game. It sold $1 million in 9 days.
Nearly 500 5-star reviews on the UK iTunes store. Nearly 5000 5-star ratings on the US iTunes store.

Plants Versus Zombies

Get it at the App Store.

The gameplay is simple. It’s a relatively mundane tower-defence formula. But what I like is not just the quirky graphics or the fun subject matter. It’s simply the massive variations on plants, zombies or even arenas. You’re on the front yard, or the back yard with the pool, on the roof, there’s daytime, nighttime and fog – the whole idea is to mix it up.

Sandafence, Paintafloor

My Sunday was spent sweeping the floors, painting the walls and lifting rubbish for the further preparation of the “StartVI” (pronounced Start 6) virtual incubator opening in Belfast ‘real soon now’.

See more, including the list of contributors at http://startvi.com

Devotion to Duty

Devotion to Duty

XKCD: Devotion to Duty

Back in my network engineer days at Nortel, uptime was something that was seen as vitally important. With the growth of the business pre-dotcomBUST, the production lines and the servers managing them needed to be up and serving 24×7.

24×7x365 was a very hard thing to measure, never mind achieve in pre-2000 information systems. In the end my overseers and bosses had to reconcile the need for maintenance and upgrades with the 24×7x365 myth and the uptime was achieved though we were able to maintain a very reasonable schedule – so reasonable in fact that the business was able to celebrate when we relinquished some of our regular maintenance windows.

But the message was clear, uptime was the most important metric.

Nominated for the Irish Blog Awards 2010

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Cool. Thanks to whomever it was who nominated me.

How to repackage the same ol’ crap

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