Board meeting today was good; I’m really excited about summit. Hopefully jrb and I will hash out some schedule stuff Monday.
As I’ve stated on foundation-list, I think the current situation with the board is untenable- we just don’t have enough quality, motivated candidates with enough time to make an 11 person board work. We need [...]
If gobby is any good, it’ll be the hit of summit. I’m excited to try it out, hopefully at work.
Interesting article on the Longhorn/Vista development process- how broken and un-modular it was; how modular they’ve tried to make it. From Scoble.
Similarly interesting article on the economics of Nintendo innovation. Worth reading for those interested in innovation in niches that $COMPETITOR (MS, Google, Office, whoever) might suck up later.
Webcast went off OK this morning, after [...]
I am exhausted; I spent most of my day either in transit (metro->airplane->airport->delay->airport->taxi), in meetings (one an hour longer than expected (though for decent reasons), one which the other party missed, and one not very useful), or fighting with MS Windows Media Encoder, which is a pretty nice product, when it isn’t completely broken for [...]
Subvert from within. A very awesome link for all my Novell, Sun, and Red Hat readers to pore over (and probably many other companies); one which I’ll probably print and put on my wall (not that I really need to subvert my organization, but still, a great link.)
Last night, told everyone involved in the liveCD [...]
Overheard in the hallway today: ‘One thing about the Middle East, they are always good for porn.’ Filtering talk, I assume :)
Am at the Berkman center’s open house, pitching Berkman stuff to (mostly) harvard law 1Ls. Some really interesting projects going on. (Some hard to find on the website, unfortunately, which is going to be [...]
We continue to have some rocking people sign up for summit, including Maddog, Nathan Yergler from Creative Commons, Matthew Allum from Opened Hand (presumably with 770 in hand), and the elusive Marco Pesenti Gritti. Tim has obtained a third room for us, which we’ll be able to have for hacking. Should be fun- I’m looking [...]
Turns out I’m still not a big fan of meetings, though I had some good ones today and continue to be very openly welcomed at Berkman.
Am reading a lot of Java docs ATM, and am sort of depressed, just because it is sooo nice compared to, well, anything I’ve looked at in a long time. [...]
Working 9-5 can be surprisingly draining, it turns out. I doubt I ever did a straight through 9-5 day at Ximian, unless it was a day I was flying somewhere that night- always either got up much earlier (when we were working with India) or stayed much later (all the rest of the time.) But [...]
E-mail piling up again. Blah. :/
Went to a friend’s going-away party last night; was fun. Need to go to more ’sit around and BS with new people’ parties. Hence, I’ll go to the acetarium tonight. Day will mostly be spent on Yet More LSAT Practice.
I often quote Marshall McLuhan in my slide decks; here is [...]