(well, not personally but.....)
The JavaOne Rock Stars have been announced!
JavaOne Rock Stars are the top speakers from JavaOne as voted by attendees.
The 2009 class of JavaOne Rock Stars joins a very elite group in the JavaOne Rock Star Hall of Fame.
I know you'll see some familiar names in the list... there also got some rookies!
Congrats to the newly inducted!
In addition to being hot shot techno celebs, you're now OFFICIALLY Rock Stars. 
CONGRATS!!
Mary
As you (regular) readers know, I've been doing a bit of sprucing up on the blog front -- with the new mirror of MaryMaryQuiteContrary and all.
In that process I've had the chance to go back and look at old blog entries.
I found this:
A kid in my life recently made a list and tacked it to the refrigerator.
Here's what it said:
Things I Want to do this Summer
- Play with new things
- Have new adventures
- Decide who is a good friend
- Decide who is not a good friend
- Use my slip 'n slide
- Buy a golf club and balls
- Throw some parties
- Finish my math packet
- HAVE TONS OF F-U-N
not a bad list, eh?
I've just created a mirror of MaryMaryQuiteContrary.
Well, I didn't exactly do it.
I paid Katy Dickinson's daughter, Jessica Dickinson Goodman to help me do it. She's a junior at CMU, which is where Wanda and Dennis and the rest of the Alice.org team work, making it my #1 favorite technical university in the world. But that's another story.
Back to Jessica. The mirror. The blog....
Jessica did an outstanding job. She took 5 years of entries and migrated over with images, links and comments coming through beautifully. If you're looking for HTML/CSS help and you'd like to hire her, just connect with me and I'll make intros.
So MaryMaryQuiteContrary now has a MirrorMirrorOnTheWall.
(if you'll give me some poetic license)
(not that you can really call that poetry, but you get the idea...)
Without warning, a huge branch on a tree in the neighbor's yard came down in the middle of the night.
It missed our house by inches. Nothing (except for the patio furniture) was damaged.
The weather was perfectly clear. There was no storm. No wind. No nothing.
Just all of the sudden the tree came down.
Unbelievable.
I'm lead on Sun's corporate marketing activity in the virtual world environments.
(among other things)
A while back, we hosted an industry analyst event in Second Life. We wanted to brief the analysts on the work we've done wrt datacenter consolidation, and the innovation that has come out of it that our customers are now benefiting from.
We held the briefing in a virtual world environment because it allowed us to show a highly complex and involved timeline involving datacenter environments that would have been difficult if not impossible to replicate in a "real world" context.
Further, by doing it in a virtual world space we are able to show things that would have been impossible to demonstrate in a real world context -- for example the heat coming off of servers and how that's managed within a datacenter environment.
Dean Nelson was the technical executive counterpart for this work. He worked with us to bring the story to life in Second Life. For the record: Dean Nelson is a ROCK STAR!!!
Sun's CTO Greg Papadopoulos shared the stage with Dean as they briefed the analysts in Second Life.
Here's a replay of the event, if you'd like to watch the whole thing...
The event was also "simulcast" on the web, making it possible for analysts to participate without having to go in-world.
(Which is one of my three litmus tests for any activity that I get behind.)
The assets that were built for this event are now part of a standing exhibit in our Pavillion in Second Life.
Check it out! (You need a Second Life avitar to get there.)
I'm going to hold office hours in Sun's pavillion in Second Life.
Schedule:
Come on by! I'll give you a tour!
Mary
p.s. Here's what I look like in Second Life:
I know, I know. She's taller. And thinner. And never has bad hair days.
