Oh Brian!

I learned this evening that Ray Noorda, the founder and genius behind what was Novell passed away today.

Years ago I was a software engineer for a defense contractor who wanted to get out of the defense contracting business. The people that I met and worked with when I pursued Novell's Certified Netware Engineer (CNE) certification taught me much about networking but even more about technology and the Internet. I had the pleasure of meeting and listening to Ray Noorda several times at BrainShare; Novell's annual user conference.

Thank you Ray!

In case you missed it check out Saturday Night Live's season 32 premiere from last night (9/30/2006) check out the content from 1:15 through 1:20 AM (I did via the science that is Tivo). Five minutes without any content at all. This started rights after the Killers second set and continued straight into the Farrah Fawcett bit (which was dumb). They did have an brief SNL Dane Cook head shot transition graphic between commercials but this was a five minute "not funny" bit. All in all the TSA bit at the beginning was probably the best sketch.