Thursday, August 27, 2009
Monday, August 24, 2009
From Petting to Fucking is about 34-37 km
Friday, August 14, 2009
Canada Q & A
Now that Vancouver has won the chance to host the 2010 Winter Olympics, these are some questions people from all over the world are asking.
Believe it or not these questions about Canada were posted on an International Tourism Website.
Obviously the answers are a joke; but the questions were really asked!
Q: I have never seen it warm on Canadian TV, so how do the plants grow? ( England )
A. We import all plants fully grown and then just sit around and watch them die.
Q: Will I be able to see Polar Bears in the street? ( USA )
A: Depends on how much you've been drinking.
Q: I want to walk from Vancouver to Toronto - can I follow the Railroad tracks? ( Sweden )
A: Sure, it's only Four thousand miles, take lots of water.
Q: Is it safe to run around in the bushes in Canada ? ( Sweden )
A: So it's true what they say about Swedes.
Q: Are there any ATM's (cash machines) in Canada ? Can you send me a list of them in Toronto , Vancouver , Edmonton and Halifax ? ( England )
A: No, but you'd better bring a few extra furs for trading purposes.
Q: Can you give me some information about hippo racing in Canada ? ( USA )
A: A-fri-ca is the big triangle shaped continent south of Europe Ca-na-da is that big country to your North...oh forget it. Sure, the hippo racing is every Tuesday night in Calgary Come naked.
Q: Which direction is North in Canada ? ( USA )
A: Face south and then turn 180 degrees Contact us when you get here and we'll send the rest of the directions.
Q: Can I bring cutlery into Canada ? ( England )
A: Why? Just use your fingers like we do.
Q: Can you send me the Vienna Boys' Choir schedule? ( USA )
A: Aus-t ri-a is that quaint little country bordering Ger-man-y, which is...oh forget it. Sure, the Vienna Boys Choir plays every Tuesday night in Vancouver and in Calgary , straight after the hippo races. Come naked.
Q: Do you have perfume in Canada ? ( Germany )
A: No, WE don't stink.
Q: I have developed a new product that is the fountain of youth. Where can I sell it in Canada ? ( USA )
A: Anywhere significant numbers of Americans gather.
Q: Can you tell me the regions in British Columbia where the female population is smaller than the male population? ( Italy )
A: Yes, gay nightclubs.
Q: Do you celebrate Thanksgiving in Canada ? ( USA )
A: Only at Thanksgiving.
Q: Are there supermarkets in Toronto and is milk available all year round? ( Germany )
A: No, we are a peaceful civilization of Vegan hunter/gathers. Milk is illegal.
Q: I have a question about a famous animal in Canada , but I forget its name. It's a kind of big horse with horns. ( USA )
A: It's called a Moose. They are tall and very violent, eating the brains of anyone walking close to them. You can scare them off by spraying yourself with human urine before you go out walking.
Q: Will I be able to speak English most places I go? ( USA )
A: Yes, but you will have to learn it first.
Please send this on to any Canadian (or others) who you think will enjoy it as much as I did.
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Sun looses customers to IBM
IBM is also picking up a lot of business from Sun, having doubled their number of Sun customer wins between first quarter and second quarter 2009. Kuznetsova attributed these recent moves to customer uncertainly regarding Sun following the recent takeover bid from Oracle.
Hot IT Skills: Certified and Non-Certified IT Skills in Demand
The following lists of “hot” IT skills – very much in demand by employers – is based on Foote Partners' survey of nearly 2,000 U.S. and Canadian employers.
Top 15 "Hot" IT Skills, Non-Certified, July 2009:
1) Java EE, SE, ME
2) Linux
3) Virtualization (all)
4) Microsoft .NET
5) NetWeaver (SAP)
6) Flex
7) Business process management/modeling/improvement
8) SAP SM (Service Management)
9) Security
(IDS/IPS, forensics, identity/access management, compliance, firewalls, threat/vulnerability assessement and management, cncryption, data loss prevention, incident analysis and handling, and security architecture)
10) SAN (storage area networking)
11) Project management
12) SAP PS (Project Systems)
13) SAP HCM (SAP HR)
14) SAP FI (Financial Accounting)
15) SAP CO (Controlling)
IT: University of Verona moving to open source desktop
The University of Verona in Italy started a three year program last January to migrate most of its more than 4000 PCs to open source. It is likely that the university will switch its PCs to GNU/Linux distribution Ubuntu.
The university's migration project is titled OSA - Open Source di Ateneo. "In Italian 'osa' also means 'dare to'" says Dr. Guido Gonzato, one of the IT administrators at the university involved in the project.
The university in January began to educate its staff about open source. The IT administrators are trying not to disrupt routines, and by training the staff they hope to minimise the resistance to change.
During the past few months, courses were held to teach the university's staff about Ubuntu GNU/Linux. "These are basic courses, aimed at people with limited computer expertise and they are going surprisingly well", Gonzatto writes in an emailed message.
