I’m sitting here at the Remix Australian Conference.
It’s your typical talk / presentation / demo. Azure, Windows Mobile, IE 8.
I shouldn’t be surprised, but I am. I find the most interesting thing is the behind the scenes. All demos are on Windows 7, if someone opens a browser, Bing is the home page…
Right now, I’m watching Michael Kordahi demo IE8. He’s not a bad presenter! Casual, fun, he has obviously practiced practiced this demo a few times.
I’m just waiting for him to swear!
Rock on!
I’ve just watched the Google Wave demo given at the Google IO Conference.
At first glance, Wave is a fantastic idea!
If you are using email to communicate with your family and friends, this will change the way you work.
Think in your mind what you use Facebook for. If you had to tell me this, 5 years ago:
I update my friends on what I’m doing. I can see their photo’s and comment on them. If I see someone I know in your photos, i can tag
So there are certainly obvious benefits. But I think what is of more value is the subtle changes.
- “Been” (sic.) Soup Spell check
- Drag and drop images
- realtime updates
And so forth…
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Michele and I have our 2nd trimester scan tomorrow. I don’t know why we do it (apart from finding out Baby Payne’s sex!)
We’ve been doing the obvious talking about baby names for a while now.
Seth Godin suggest this:
The best middle name ever
It’s not Warren or Susan or Otis or Samuel or Tricia.
It’s “The.”
As in Attila The Hun or Alexander The Great or Zorba The Greek.
When your middle name is ‘The’, it means you’re it. The only one. The one that defines the category. I think that focus is a choice, and that the result of appropriate focus is you earn the middle name.
Jordan’s Furniture in Waltham was the place to go for that sort of thing. Bocce Pizza and the Anchor Bar were the places in Buffalo when I was growing up. Google is more appropriately called Google the search engine.
Seek the.
Of course, Winnie the Pooh is the exception that proves the rule.
Rock on!
I was listening to StackOverflow podcast #38 and I found that Joel really touched on something.
Towards the end, Joel was fired up about a discussion on a Hanselminutes Podcast. From the show notes:
Joel talks about Robert Martin’s (aka Uncle Bob) Solid Principles, as explained on a recent Hanselminutes podcast.
Joel: “it sounded like extremely bureaucratic programming” that “could theoretically protect you against things, but You Aren’t Gonna Need It.”
As a general concept, I couldn’t agree with Joel more. So many times you hear how the benefits of a new tool / technique / method is the best thing since sliced bread. But I often found myself scratching the surface feeling that in theory that’s great, but it is just lacking enough detail to make it a realistic solutions:
What suprises me the most, is how tollerant people are. For instance, MVC particulary got under my skin. Rob Conery’s videos make out that it is just SO easy. But scratch the surface and all you end up with is smoke and mirrors. I even asked a question about it on Stackoverflow.
Joel, I think you are spot on!
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