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June 23rd, 2008O-festivalen
June 22nd, 2008We’ve spent this weekend competing in the O-festivalen competition held at Siggerud on the outskirts of Oslo (not far from the IBM office). I went to Friday’s middle distance race on my own. It made a pleasant change not having to go off at one end or other of the start block and with minute intervals I was actually able to race round most of the course. It still took me just under 10 mins/k but with only a couple of minutes lost at the first control I was pleased with my run.
Trondheim Toursim
June 20th, 2008Nordmarka Skogsmaraton
June 14th, 2008Event sequencing qualifier and WebSphere ESB
June 14th, 2008As this has cropped up a couple of times recently and, as far as I’m aware, there is still no information in the public domain, I thought I’d stick my neck out and post about it. WebSphere Integration Developer allows you to add an event sequencing qualifier to components in a mediation module but the required runtime support for that qualifier only exists in WebSphere Process Server not in WebSphere ESB. In other words, for that qualifier to work, the mediation module must then be deployed to WebSphere Process Server.
Mediation handler tooling broken
June 10th, 2008Despite being sidelined by the arrival of WebSphere ESB, there are still times when it is useful to use the mediation support in WebSphere’s service integration bus (of which more in another post). It’s obviously a while since I’ve done it though as apparently the mediation handler tooling in Rational Application Developer has been broken since v7 was released. I’m told that the fix will finally make it in to 7.0.0.7.
Not last at orienteering!
June 8th, 2008We went to Nydalens’ Nydalten event today. This seemed to primarily be about the juniors’ Trimtex Cup match with some courses for adults sandwiched in the middle. Unfortunately this meant that, despite having put us at opposite ends of the start block, we had just 80 minutes for me to get round my 10k course and for Christine to do the 2k to the start. As Christine has kindly pointed out, I failed to do even my part in under 80 minutes and she consequently missed her run.
BT refund
June 6th, 2008I’ve previously blogged about my annoyance at having to fork out £10 a month to BT purely in order to avoid the pleasure of paying them even more money when we return to the UK. I therefore wasn’t best pleased to discover that this month they had added some additional charges. On enquiring it turned out that these were to cover the free services (caller display and BT 1571) that apparently aren’t actually free if you make less than two calls a month. (This, presumably, is to penalise those who use another call provider over a BT line.) This seemed a bit of a liberty given that, in their online account management, is there any way to unselect them. The services have now been cancelled until we return. It took a second e-mail repeating the fact that I had previously had a conversation with BT support about minimising the amount we paid whilst abroad before they (or at least so they say) refunded the charges levied so far.
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