For the next 8 or so days I will be at an undisclosed location. The following items will be absent from the scene:
- ice
- snow
- the internet
The following items will be present:
- sun
- sea
- books
- music
- rum
January 27, 2008
January 27, 2008
For the next 8 or so days I will be at an undisclosed location. The following items will be absent from the scene:
The following items will be present:
January 27, 2008 at 10:53 am
Jon,
Enjoy Jamaica!
–rj
January 27, 2008 at 1:03 pm
Sounds marvelous. I’m jealous. Enjoy.
January 27, 2008 at 3:50 pm
I’m curious what books you’re reading… (But the earliest I could expect to see a list is when you get back)
January 28, 2008 at 3:39 pm
multitasking and “the nightmare of infinite connectivity”
We all remember the promises. The slogans. They were all about freedom, liberation. Supposedly we were in handcuffs and wanted out of them. The key that dangled in front of us was a microchip.
“Where do you want to go today?” asked Microsoft in a m…
January 31, 2008 at 9:03 am
Ruby for spreadsheets: http://roo.rubyforge.org/
February 1, 2008 at 4:46 pm
Jon,
You deserve a nice vacation. But, cheeze, as soon as you are off the job and out of town they go off and start fooling around with Yahoo. Amazon even took the opportunity to sneak up and grab Audible. Don’t leave too often or there will only be 4 companies left, Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Apple. ;-) Jim
February 4, 2008 at 6:44 pm
And also while you were gone.
Infoworld article via Yahoo 2-4-08
“… Yahoo has the most beautiful set of [APIs] in its properties,” such as for the Flickr photo-sharing site, said James Governor, an analyst with RedMonk. “But frankly, it just has not done a great job of building an ecosystem … there’s no such thing as a ‘Yahoo developer.’”
Yahoo’s tools hold promise but really need a high-profile evangelist pushing hard behind them, Governor argued. “The first thing I would do in taking over the company would be to get someone who really understands APIs … to me, Jon Udell — who is now at Microsoft — would be ideal in this role. He would be someone I would be thinking of right away,” he said. …”
Just does not pay to be out of town ;-)
February 5, 2008 at 12:08 pm
“what books you’re reading”
Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden (again, recommended)
Jack London, Martin Eden (weird semi-autobiography, not recommended)
Patrick O’Brian, Desolation Island (not usually my cup of tea, but I liked it)
Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines (finally, after all these years. it’s amazing)
February 5, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Welcome back.
Don’t worry–nothing interesting happened while you were gone. :-)
February 6, 2008 at 8:43 am
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February 6, 2008 at 12:17 pm
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