Congrats to the team behind Project Durian, which is Blender Foundations third Open Movie project, produced in the studio of the Blender Institute in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. As they finally announce the premiere of Sintel at the Netherlands Film Festival on Monday, September 27th at 7:30PM.

Now would be a good time for Google wish Oracle had not taken over and purchases Sun Microsystems. Sun Microsystems where the guys behind the Java Framework until Oracle took control. So what has Java got to do with the title of this article? Well, Java is the whole reason that Oracle has sued Google.

Here’s to introducing the wonderful world of Aton Toons. An African centered cartoon strip, animated clips and more that promises compromised humor like you have never seen it before. You wont find these on the Blender gallery, Well at least not yet anyway.

We are way into August already, how time passes by when you’ve got a million and one things to do. Unfortunately these things are keeping me away from my computer screen and you know what that means… less writing, less developing. More wasted moment and a pile of “wish I”s. Yeah so lets see what I have in store this issue.

MariaDB, is the MySQL forked database Server that uses the Maria storage engine as the default transactional and non-transactional storage engine. The Maria storage engine is no longer called “Maria” but is now called “Aria”. Any future versions of MariaDB will now ship with the default storage engine named “Aria”.

The first official Beta release of the Blender 2.5x series free open source 3D content creation suite is out. This is a release that is for the most part feature complete but not quite there. By feature complete I mean the inclusions of features from the complete Blender 2.4x series. Here is an overview of what Blender 2.53 Beta Release has to offer.

Things have been a little quiet on Sobbayi tech labs blog… well at least for the past few days. I think I bit off more than I could chew. Well I have been up attending quite a few conferences and doing a bit of reading on something new I am working on. I have also been sifting through the blender 3D code for sometime now because I want to put in more time in my involvement in with blender 2.5 which is about to be released as BETA version.

Seacom has reported that their underwater cable which is supposed to provide broadband Internet to countries within East Africa is down. Though the service within Africa should be okay seeing they have a protected ring connecting Tanzania, Kenya, Mozambique and South Africa. It is mainly Traffic towards Europe and India that is affected.

Its been an interesting week for me, with a lot of stuff going on. Not going to talk about it much here seeing it’s obvious that this is not the right forum. Anyway. Apart from the side shows, I have been busy scouring through my latest project… not letting anything out of the bag just yet. Trying to find time out to keep up with my articles. Fixing a few patches in the “Bike Shop”. These are just a few things that had piled on my desk.

This one takes the cake, Space Networks happens to be a tech company in Kenya dealing with VSAT related stuff and probably operate a Network Operations Center (NOC). You know what, this is seriously scary. Again this just goes to show where the problem lies as far as security of Kenya websites and Networks lies. The situation cant get any worse than this, can it?