links, random thoughts, various opinions
Well I’m back in London. Staying at the same hotel but found what I think is a much better deal in the same neighbourhood via Expedia.
Copenhagen was relaxing, although Tivoli Gardens was closed…and it appears the Lego museum is in Stockholm. Enjoyed the city though and got a fair amount of work done.
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Too Far Too Call
“After we completed the MX products last spring, it was time to begin what I believe is the next logical step–creating a better environment for Internet applications that bridges the gap between the desktop and the web, emerging out of the constraints of the browser. This is the mission for Macromedia Central.
We began by brainstorming […]
Breezed through Olso middle of this week and settled in Copenhagen for the weekend. Had some great meetings and interesting discussions with potential partners and customers. Lots to do, but very exciting.
Denmark is a great country and I have to confess the food quality/price point is a much better combination for […]
For the first time in London, my hotel room has high speed internet…and it’s still affordable (relative to London that is). Nice. Probably unhealthy that this is so important to me.
I’ve arrived in London (again) for a short Europe trip. Beautiful day but going to sleep the afternoon away I think. The plane was packed full but Heathrow was very empty. No line up at customs at all…I’ve never seen that before.
From UPI’s wire today - Lucky Break For Jordan
“A group of American anti-war demonstrators who came to Iraq with Japanese human shield volunteers made it across the border today with 14 hours of uncensored video, all shot without Iraqi government minders present. Kenneth Joseph, a young American pastor with the Assyrian Church of the East, […]
The War That Will Change The World
“President Bush is not the most articulate of the world’s heads of state. Elitists who speak artfully, while failing to listen honestly, dismiss him. Yet while the intelligentsia clings to the past, our president has the vision to see that the old patterns of diplomacy have failed us, that […]
As I got numb (or as my Mom put it ‘warred out’) watching all the TV coverage of the ‘Disarmement of Iraq’, last night I turned off the TV and got caught up on my email. While doing that I decided to listen to Tony Blair’s speech in full to the British Parliament (on […]
A great article in Macleans this week by Brian Bergman. I think it sums up the feelings of a lot of my friends and family, of all generations. Article link here: The Question Of War
Really worth the whole read, one interesting quote close to my heart -
“Alas, for many of those […]
“First, a disclaimer: I have never cared for Prime Minister Tony Blair. For years I viewed the man, or at least his caricature in the mass media, as yet another slick politician cut (not accidentally) from the same mold as Bill Clinton. Lately however, my opinion has literally flipped a 180.
Blair’s quick wit and laser-guided […]
I’m not sure what InfoPath is (yet) but this post on how much business logic is in Excel is so true. Now to figure out what he’s talking about.
…Read a bit more about InfoPath from Microsoft here. Perhaps a client side form for event entry via XML would make our users happy…:) […]
How Google Grows?
“Rule Number Four: Great People Can Manage Themselves
Google spends more time on hiring than on anything else. It knows this because, like any bunch of obsessive engineers, it keeps track. It says that it gets 1,500 resumes a day from wanna-be Googlers. Between screening, interviewing, and assessing, it invested 87 Google people-hours in […]
My SQL a threat to bigwigs?”
“MySQL lacks many features big companies want for using it with applications that are central to their business, like manufacturing or finance software from companies like SAP. But it is getting inexorably better thanks to all those helpers bequeathed by its business model. Says open-source expert Stacey Quandt at the […]
Although it seems that me (most of all) doesn’t appreciate this I do. We want to be advocates for the best, the most elegant solution. Just let me/us know what we have to sell…
Elegance always pays off. In the short term it might seem like it takes much longer to come up with […]
We use blogs at work a lot. I’m really happy with the fact that we have just eliminated group emails internally, but more importantly the captured ‘knowledge’, as nebulous as that is. Anyways I’ve noticed that my own blog here is missing pieces I want to save [this blog is mainly a way […]
From Tony Blair’s speech to the House of Commons tonight -
“We then worked on a further compromise. We consulted the inspectors and drew up five tests based on the document they published on 7 March. Tests like interviews with 30 scientists outside of Iraq; production of the anthrax or documentation showing its destruction. The […]
The Arrogant Empire
“FOR MORE THAN 25 years he [Saddam Hussein] has sought to acquire chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, and has, in several documented cases, succeeded. He gassed 60,000 of his own people in 1986 in Halabja. He has launched two catastrophic wars, sacrificing nearly a million Iraqis and killing or wounding more than a […]
Interesting post from one of XML’s co-creators, who actually lives in Vancouver -
XML Is Too Hard
“XML is a bouncing thriving five-year-old now, and yet I’ve been feeling unsatisfied with it, particularly in recent times. In particular in my capacity as a programmer.
During the process of setting up ongoing, for the first time in a year […]
Anagram post via Derek. My new business shall be called ‘Dibble Oil’.
Redeem Krill!!!