Wednesday February 08, 2006

This is a topic I have written about before and am pretty darn passionate about. This time, however, Frank Sommers covers the topic in a 5 page article, digging in to how the Sun Ray "does its thing" and its use over the Internet. Frank's a smart guy. I happened to meet him at JavaOne as we hopped on adjacent Sun Rays to check mail (& blog). The conversation started from there. "Hey, I know you ...". His reputation preceded him as I knew him from his Jini work and his involvment on the Jini mail aliases.

Full disclosure requires me to say that I reviewed this article for Frank last fall.

FYI, the Sun Ray Software and the Sun Secure Global Desktop are both now available for download for free (sans support). The Sun Rays are not free, but very affordable. There is always eBay :)

I'm slurping away on my now-getting-cold Grande Latte when I notice a Fry's Electronics advertisement on the table next to me. Fry's Electronics is an electronics mega-mega-store. It's a supoer-Walmart for geeks. The advertisement is titled "Valentine's Day Gift Ideas", in pink no less. Under that are various sales, such as mother boards, RAM, monitors, laptops, etc.

I think I'll take the advertisement page home with me and leave it on the table. Maybe even circle the Video iPod. With that, I can show my wife a picture of a dozen roses. Win-win. Yeah, right :)

Rush hour is trailing off now. Time to head into the office for a customer thingy. Gotta go ...