Monthly Archives: October 2012

So I installed Windows 8 Pro

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Yesterday evening I installed Windows 8 Pro on my private laptop.

I have to say so far so good. I can understand why people would complain that the experience is optimised for the touch screen market, but I really don’t get the complaints that it somehow so impossible to use that no one will ever understand it. If you want to understand the new Windows 8, just simply move your mouse to the edges of the screen as there is no start menu button. And there is a “desktop” mode which looks 99% like what you had in Windows 7.

Windows 8 in and of itself isn’t enough to make me buy a new laptop, but the new OS feels a bit more intuitive for those of us who spend our non-working hours on touch screen devices.

I give it a solid 8 / 10 based on my experience so far…I am looking forward to seeing the Surface tablet and maybe being able to ditch my iPad…

So Long, LiveJournal

general update

Well…the time has come to say goodbye to old my friend, LiveJournal (LJ). Well, maybe not goodbye, but it won’t be my primary blog anymore.

I have now moved all of my content to my own WordPress-powered app on my own website at blog.rodneycornelius.com/. There were a few reasons to do this. First, LJ seems to struggle to keep up with the times. They don’t offer the ability for automatic re-direction for mobile users, non-LJ users found it difficult to comment, and most importantly, I am paying a monthly charge for a website that I am not getting full capacity from. So I have decided that over time I will start to make greater use of my own website’s capabilities (including blog and photos) and stop paying other places to host content that I myself can host for free. In the worst case, this will give me a reason to keep my website updated.

I actually won’t delete LJ…there is some great communities there that I still find relevant today and will continue contact with. It is just my blog will automatically post to LJ but the posts are essentially read-only now. Shortly the same thing will be done for Tumblr.

I hope you still following along. And hopefully this move to a new blog makes it even easier to do 🙂

Nigeria Corporate Service Corp (CSC) assignment one step closer

Travel, Work,

So this week I got an e-mail from the CSC coordinator asking us to put together a cover letters and CV (aka resumé) so that our team could be matched to one or more projects. I worked on putting the material together over the weekend and send it in on Monday. I have to say that I spent a lot of time on my cover letter and CV (my CV was already done, but needed some touch ups), making sure both were simple enough to be understood by people who don’t have English as their first language.

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I am really excited to begin the pre-work and to find out more about what I am going to do. From the communications I have received so far, I know that I am going to be working with a pretty diverse international team and I think that those strengths are going to play to our advantage. Right now it is a little over 4½ months away and that feels like a long time. I know however how quickly time flies so I know that this adventure will begin soon.

I am already now beginning to blog about this CSC experience in Nigeria so that I get into the habit and then hopefully will also keep everyone updated on this latest and greatest adventure 🙂

#ibmcsc nigeria

 

Towards Vienna we go!

Travel, Work

On the way to Vienna for a company education event. I am pretty excited about it. I do really like Vienna as a city with it's imperial elegant architecture. The education events ends on Thursday afternoon but I will stay there some extra days to see home more of the city. It is my secpnd trip there in 4 months.

The education event is centered around the things we sell and how to sell more of it. Even though I am managing our delivery in the region, the session will also be valuable for me as well.

I could have done a better job of booking my flights, so I ended up having to take a flight with a connection. However, the flights are with lufthansa and that means that the flights are generally enjoyable. The flight from Stockholm to Dusseldorf was no different. And the connection to Vienna is no different. I do also have to confess that it was nice to be in the air again after several weeks on the ground.

Anyway…just a random update to get back into the habit of journaling. Write more later! For now, a picture from the air…you start to realise how small we are when you look at the ground below when you are screaming through the sky in a metal tube.

Posted via LiveJournal app for iPad.