Thursday November 18, 2004

Immersion Week was fun. We are all getting "immersed" to uplevel our knowledge to some base level. We all have depth in one area or another, but this was a level-setting event for areas we haven't had time to spend on.

I was a recipient of Dan Price's excellent transfer of information. He has a personality that is easy to like and he gets information across in a way that leaves you enjoying going back to school. I think the coolest thing he said was that after class he was on the phone to engineering delivering information about how the installation experience could be improved through our feedback. Dan said he was going to use the container demo at LISA which makes me really, really nervous :)

As I have blogged before, these events are as useful for building and maintaining relationships as they are for technical value. "So your John Clingan!" My response: "So your Jeff Victor!". "So your Wayne Vincent" "So your Dan Price". I could keep going but I'd be going all day and I apologize for leaving many of you out. Many of these events tend to be regional. This one was national.

I must say thank you to those who like and use the Container Demo. One person said "Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you" for creating the demo. That alone made it worth the work I put in to it.

I feel that I am pretty out-of-touch with the world right now as I try to catch up. This is one of the reasons I feel bad for posting an entry that was almost 100% equivalent to Alan's entry. Only having a few minutes a day over the last week to check news, blogs, email, etc I feel really out of touch. I must say that the Sun community thinks Fink's Funk Stinks. Simon nailed it (as usual) when he pointed out the Mr. Fink seems to have missed the point of blogging. The speed with which this information/opinion/fact flows (publicly) is just amazing.

Even Hollywood thinks so. I was watching "The West Wing" last night and basically blogging reality hit the White House. We bloggers are not journalists. We are simply people with something to say, and that is a lesson the White House learned in "The West Wing". I think Mr. Fink found that out the hard way.

We all know the use of blogs in the US elections with opinions and in some cases facts flying in all directions (keep your political opinions out of my blog :) ). Blogging has surely hit mainstream.

I am still on vacation. My mom says hi to everyone who checks out my blog. She hopes to meet you all some day.

Why did I pick this blog entry title? It's actually a reference to "Ramming Speed!"