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Happy Birthday Apache!

I was checking out the 10th anniversary press release

Several Apache projects also celebrated their 10th anniversary

and realised that Apache James is 10 years old this year as well. Way to go James Team, 10 years and we still haven't resorted to physical violence. Check the wayback machine if you don't believe me.

The top level project was established by the Board on January 22, 2003, with these ugly dudes on the 1st PMC:
Serge Knystautas
Danny Angus
Peter Goldstein
Noel Bergman
Charles Bennet

And I read the two documents The ASF was sent, I think I'm going to move to Oakland, or at least adopt their public holidays.

The Mayor of Oakland's proclamation that november 4th is Apache Software Foundation day wierd, but cool.

The Letter from Arnie. Question: Will he be back?

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After four years of working for quango X I've placed a new bet on the table of career roulette[1] and decided to move on.

I'm going to take up the reins of IT at Drive Business which is going to be a new and terrifyingly real challenge, but one which I'm very excited about. Drive Business are growing fast and have some exciting clients, and although I've worked here for four years the previous five years were all in on-line retail, in many ways I'm itching to get back to it.

Because of this career change I'm afraid I've had to withdraw my talk on James from ApacheCon US07, hopefully I'll make it next year.

[1] Not to be confused with dress code rule-ette in which players have to break the "not visibly wearing no underwear" dress-code rule. Losers face the sack.

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Well we finally did it. Unable to avoid the consequences of encouraging child No1 to follow the family tradition and learn to ride, and after nine years of fobbing her off with riding school ponies, our "family" comprising four humans, two hamsters, two dogs, and a goldfish now includes Finkley Joker, pictured, who we're getting on loan for three months, and then who knows.

Tip for parents: When you say to your 5 year old that they can have a pony when they are twelve beware, they won't forget, and it comes round very fast!

In fact we should've done this last year, but she cracked her skull, which is an experience I would totally not wish on any parent. Ironically we've always been very careful to teach the kids that safety equipment isn't optional. So she fell off a swing.

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Emma is now thirteen (happy birthday darling!) where did the last thirteen years go?
I hope the next thirteen don't fly past quite as quick, or I'll be fifty-two before I know it. :-(

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Yes I'm 42 at last, how long have I been waiting for that to happen (Hint: Not!)
My lovely family softened the blow by buying me a camera (canon eos 350d if you're interested.)
Hardly had I finished showing it off around the office than this guy ran his low-loader aground right outside our window, across an intersection and blocking both streets. How could I resist? :-)

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Oh. How did I get to be this old?
People have kindly told me that I don't look it, but its cold comfort when you consider how much less of my life I have left that I had when I was twelve.

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killerbees: Hey I got a blog

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Morning all.
I now have a blog. I imagine it'll take a while for me to work out what I want to say here.
But I think this'll do for now.

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