Sep 30
A new start
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A week of vacation with the family turned out to be exactly what I needed. Now feeling very relaxed and even the kid has overslept the last couple of mornings.

Tomorrow I start my new job, at Callista. Hopefully, at least that’s my reason, I will get to work in more diverse assignments than was possible at the very focused Zystems. My almost five years at Zystems has been the most rewarding in my career, so I hope I get to continue working with them. Given the small IT community here in Sweden, that’s seems pretty likely.

Anyways, of to new goals.

Sep 18
GDocs Presentations theming
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As widely reported, Google today launched their PowerPoint/Impress equivalent over at GDocs. I’m a happy user of GDocs, so this is something I’m quite interested in. Not that I’m creating that many presentations, but when I do, this could be a useful tool.

One thing, that I find odd that they don’t seem to have implemented, is a way of creating your own themes. Conventional wisdom seems to say that presentations should be heavily sprinkled with your company logos (although some that actually knows this stuff seems to disagree). Not being able to create your own theme would put a lot of users of. Of course, Google offers some pre-defined themes, much like the useless templates you will find on Powerpoint or Impress. And, if you import a PPT file, it will actually use the theme from the PPT as the theme in GDocs, however, there seems to be no way of editing or reusing it. Odd.

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Sep 18
MQ broken on video
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The session at Defcon where Martyn Ruks describes his findings about WebSphere MQ security is now online at Google Video. I’ve previously covered the presentation, but it’s way more interesting to hear the presentation in addition to the published slides. Thanks to the anon commenter who pointed me to the video.

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