Monthly Archives: June 2008

Serendipity, GBs, Mermories

Last Friday I took a day in San Francisco. Went to visit my friend Simon that does Product Management over at Groundworks Open Source, then went to visit another potential partner, and then on to GBs. GBs is one of … Continue reading

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Drumbeats and Travel Modes

I’ve been alerted that I will be traveling soon. My boss wishes me to fly to Singapore and Chennai India to build out our sales and sales engineering networks and do visits with our offices there. I’ve never been to … Continue reading

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iTunes Free for months

What a relief. Perhaps its just me but does iTunes really suck? Does it suck on MACs too? I bet it really does; but its a coolness and status thing for them. After all, they run that cool BSD’ish OS … Continue reading

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The Ultimate Habilis

I’ve blogged a few times about my habilis habits. A habilis (like homo habilis) is a tool-user. The originals lived some million years ago give or take a flaked-stone tool and were the earliest known hominid to make tools. A … Continue reading

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Edge Software

Some software out there (free, shareware, or commercial) just makes the difference; give you an edge, lets you communicate, see, or share. I’d like award a few companies or open source projects my first and only awards of Good Edge … Continue reading

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An Idea for You

I read the news about Tim Russert with a degree of sadness. But I also want to make this point and perhaps I’ve blogged it before. I base this on a friend that I lost in 2006 while at Levanta, … Continue reading

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Changelings, Whisperers, Entrepreneurs of the Jet Stream

I’m going to be heading out to Plano, Texas in a few days on my first business trip and I’m kinda excited. Not so much about the destination; but about the going. I don’t travel for business that much these … Continue reading

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What it means to turn 10 years old…

This is primarily about my daughter creature. She is turning 10 now and its one of those wondrous, haunting, amazing times. She’s evolving from being single digits to double. I told her she was doing that and she just stared … Continue reading

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Weekend Scenarios

I always approach the weekends with a great deal of appreciation. I enjoy the work weeks immensely these days; perhaps even more than the Visa days. I’ve always felt good when there is some “need” and I can help fulfill … Continue reading

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VMware Server 2 Beta?

Well, I don’t quite get the lure of VMWare Server 2. Given that I simply love the other virtualization products this one has got me. I downloaded the Windows Version at a hefty few hundred MBs and there are things … Continue reading

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