Looks like monster has been moonlighting as a model again, this time for Tesco’s as you can see in the picture.
Last photo shoot I know of … 
Monster moonlighting as a model again
29 Friday Feb 2008
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LinkedIn recommendations
28 Thursday Feb 2008
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A former colleague of mine added a Recommendation to my LinkedIn profile today that is very pleasing to read. It is always pleasing to read that a former member a team you’ve run thinks you’ve done a good job.
classic Lenny Henry
26 Tuesday Feb 2008
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The comedian Lenny Henry is on classic form with a new Radio 4 comedy called “Rudy’s Rare Records” (listen to it from the BBC here). The premise of the show is that Lenny plays a classical record shop owner in London, however when his father reportedly has a heart attack he is drawn back to Birmingham with his son to help his father Rudy, and run Rudy’s Reggae record shop.
Lenny’s character (Adam) is almost an inversion of his late 80s Delbert Wilkins with a dose of his Chief character from the 90s comedy – completely obsessive to the point of being anal about classical music, a completely elitist thinker. At the same time his son (Richie) is very much an updated Delbert.
If the first episode is anything to go by the next four Tuesdays will be very funny after the news.
For the BBC page on the series go here and Lenny’s own site here.
Tom Baeyens – jBPM
22 Friday Feb 2008
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I had the chance to have a chat with Tom Baeyens, the lead for JBoss’ jBPM development programme who has a blog at Process Developments. He has recently blogged, giving SeeWhy a little mention as a result of our conversation.
SoundtrackNet – Top 10 of 2007
22 Friday Feb 2008
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A slightly different Top 10 to the usual ones when it comes to music, the Top 10 soundtracks can be found at SoundtrackNet : Top 10 of 2007.
The Killer App for CEP
20 Wednesday Feb 2008
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The online journal ebizQ are providing a webinar on ‘BAM:The Killer App for CEP’. Although SeeWhy would suggest that this is not exclusively the domain of Complex Event Processing, but any tool around Event Processing with a real-time capacity. It would seem that SeeWhy is not the only organisation that sees how BAM (Business Activity Monitoring) is a natural partner for Event Processing as SeeWhy has produced an extension to its real-time Business Intelligence platform called ‘SeeWhy for JBoss jBPM’.
The webinar is sponsored by SL who provide a real-time style dashboard so will give some basic visibility of business activity, but doesn’t have the richness of SeeWhy’s intelligence or ability to feedback into the source system such as jBPM or event a third party.
del.icio.us tags: CEP, EP, BAMbino, Business Activity Monitoring, Complex Event Processing, SeeWhy, SL, ebizQ, webinar
JBoss World Orlando 2008
17 Sunday Feb 2008
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We’re back from JBoss World in Orlando now – and a few pictures of the trip can be found at Flickr: JBoss World Orlando. A very busy trip indeed with only an hour in the sunshine at the end of the conference before heading back to the airport. For SeeWhy initial impressions are that the conference was a success, but it is still early days to really tell. Thankyou to all who came to see our stand and talk about Event Driven BI and the new jBPM BAM solution. Plus a special thanks to David Barnes at Packt publishing and Matt Cumberlidge the brilliant author of the book Business Process Management with JBoss jBPM.
Links to articles mentioning SeeWhy from JBoss World:
- http://java.sys-con.com/read/502052.htm#
- http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2209946/jboss-extends-relationship
- http://adtmag.com/article.aspx?id=22086
- http://reddevnews.com/news/article.aspx?editorialsid=9561
- http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid26_gci1301878,00.html
Rendition
13 Wednesday Feb 2008
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I managed to catch a film I’ve been meaning to see for sometime on a flight to Orlando, that being Rendition (IMDB here). The film certainly lived up to expectation, with a fine performance by Jake Gyllenhaal, and brilliantly muted Reese Witherspoon. The heart of the story is the question of whether Rendition achieves anything? As Douglass (Gyllenhaal) says in thevfilm : In all the years you’ve been doing this, how often can you say that we’ve produced truly legitimate intelligence? Once? Twice? Ten times? Give me a statistic; give me a number. Give me a pie chart, I love pie charts. Anything, anything that outweighs the fact that if you torture one person you create ten, a hundred, a thousand new enemies.
Recommended viewing.
Eddie Izzard – animated with Lego
09 Wednesday Jan 2008
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A number of Eddie Izzard sketches have been hilariously animated using Lego and posted on You Tube, Cake or Death …
You Tube also animations for several other Izzard sketches.
Cool quote …
02 Wednesday Jan 2008
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Whilst reading Rob Sheffield’s Love Is A Mix Tape, I came across this rather cool quote…
The self is a cloister of remembered sounds.
