Simon Scullion
The public musings of a collaboration lifeguard
Hello from Orlando!
2607 days
by Simon Scullion
in Personal
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This post comes from the comforts of the , Orlando, where I have spent a weekend relaxing, catching up on sleep and, yes doing a little tourism!
I flew out on Friday, arriving shattered after what was nearly 24 hours on the road. I’m now rested up and ready for the next two weeks this side of the pond, starting with CSC’s kicking off tomorrow.
I have to admit, I’m really enjoying the American hospitality, though I wasn’t really prepared for the heat and humidity!
I haven’t been up to hitting the parks by myself though to be honest, makes being without the girls even harder. Talking to the eldest Tania on the phone, she’s asking me if I’ve found Mickey Mouse and Snow White yet!
Will have to get them over here when they’re a bit older!
Three months into a “new” role…
2607 days
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So, three months have flown by already since I took a role internally as the Business Analyst for C3, CSC’s social collaboration platform. Time flies when you’re having fun, and I guess (hope) it means I’ve managed to get through the probation period!
I wrote a similar post internally a month in, but never managed to get something posted here, shame on me!
Things have been a little crazy, so much is going on, that’s my excuse and I’ll stick with it!
I hope to be able to come up for air rather more often, there is so much I’d like to be sharing. One thing is certain, 2010 is going to be a huge year for C3!
New technology – the threat to our information
0664 days
by Simon Scullion
in Enterprise 2.0
I came across this great presentation on slideshare, it makes a great point regarding the real risks of embracing Web 2.0….
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Skiing in Formigal, Spain
1710 days
A couple of weekends back, my wife and I abandoned the children with their grandparents and escaped for a couple of days skiing in the Spanish ski resort of Formigal in Huesca.
We stayed in a lovely modern hotel next to the spa in Panticosa. The spa was lovely! The mornings were rather cold, the hotel is at an altitude of about 1400 meters, and here’s proof, the car marked -17ºC and took a little while to start!
We enjoyed two perfect sunny days skiing, allowing us to really appreciate Formigal’s spectacular views.
And just to prove I was really there, a silly pose! 
Sailing with Dolphins
3712 days
by Simon Scullion
in Miscellaneous
What an amazing surprise!
We were heading out for a quite Sunday morning sailing in the Bahia de Gijon, when we came across a pod of maybe over 100 dolphins!
They were everywhere we looked. We managed to get close enough to some for them to join us and play at the bows of the boat.
What a buzz!
F-Spot failing to upload to Flickr
1716 days
Part of my excuse for being so far behind uploading to my is that F-Spot, the program I’m using on Ubuntu to manages my photo collection, had been failing to upload.
Basically it was never completing the upload, no time-out, no error, nothing.
A LOT of digging around out there via google eventually landed me on a which mentioned changing the MTU settings in the network config. I found this taking you through making the changes.
For the record, I changed my MTU settings to 1450 via the network connections gui, and hey presto, uploading to Flickr is working again! 
So one less excuse at least….!
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