Archive for June, 2008
Saturday, June 21st, 2008
Matt's new video is up. I just watched it for the first time, and am speechless. I clapped, cheered, laughed, teared up, all in the space of four and a half minutes, all alone in my office at home.
Must watch. And watch again.
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
So I may have just had an epiphany. Not sure. At Mifos, we're in the midst of really digging deep and thinking hard about what being open source means for us. This covers things like licenses, business models, partnerships, community building, and all that jazz. The tricky bit is that ...
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
I know, all the airline fees are the new thing to bitch about. I have just one complaint, for now: I arrived at Atlanta from Dubai and cleared immigration and customs pretty quickly. I had booked my connecting flight to allow for slower progress, and it turned out that there ...
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
I've done some crazy trips, but this one I'm (finally) wrapping up may take the cake. It went like this:
Saturday (6/14): Fly Seattle to Amsterdam (arrive Sunday morning) Spend Sunday in a fog, have dinner with Ingrid and Michael Monday: panel discussion at ING Bank seminar ...
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Monday, June 16th, 2008
I feel that I could write a really killer blog entry on how jetlag affects your brainpower in subtle, interesting ways, if only I had the brainpower to write it.
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Monday, June 16th, 2008
Apparently it's forecast to be 102 F in Tunis tomorrow afternoon when I arrive. That's hot... which is nice, since it's been winter in Seattle since approximately 2004.
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Sunday, June 15th, 2008
So apparently the folks at TSA have decided that there's a better way to get everyone through the security lines - I've seen this now at SEA at the beginning of this trip and again coming through security after clearing customs in Atlanta. Basic idea is this: three lanes, one ...
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Sunday, June 15th, 2008
So I'm in Amsterdam (start of a hectic travel week) and tonight Turkey played the Czech Republic in the third match of their group round in the Euro 2008 Cup. Turkey won 2-0 - exciting, yes, but I was thoroughly unprepared for the outpouring of apparently half of the population ...
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Sunday, June 15th, 2008
I had a big blog entry drafted - OK, well, outlined, by which I mean I had a bunch of nonsensical bullets written to remind me of some things to write about - that I thought would be really scintillating and insightful. Not a chance, but here's a quick rundown ...
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