Explicitly and without apology a marketing vehicle MaryMaryQuiteContrary

happy Monday, people.

i'll be picking my Friday Free Stuff* winner* later today. a hot package of prizes* on the table.



check it out for your chance to win* (no sophistication required to win this week. hear you loud and clear Manjunath. i'll hit up Click and Hack for a puzzler this week. sorry to disappoint.)

meanwhile, a comment Mike posted to an earlier entry (which made me smile ear-to-ear) mentions something that's going on in Sun Labs. read the comment to find out what.

gets me thinking... haven't checked in on Sun Labs in a while.

which leads me to my new favorite person in Sun Labs...



Stephen (I-wonder-if-he-minds-if-i-call-him-Steve) Uhler. All he needs is a blog and he'd be my new favorite blogger. I'm so over Kesselman,



who was crown my favorite blogger  not too long ago -- taking Jonathan's place on the podium, mind you. Yet he has not written anything since May. Despite receiving a personal email from me telling him he needs to get on it. Which he probably deleted without reading. Oh well, you snooze, you looze. So we're over the inside joke about Kesselman's gender-bending Role Play(which only one of you got).  On to greener pastures. As soon as I can find some. Or one. Favorite blogger, that is.

but back to my new favorite person in Sun Labs...



Guess what Steve is working on? Enterprise PDA. So I'm no genius (as you can tell by reading this blog) but let's imagine that this PDA was a Sun Ray client. Let's imagine instead tapping into a telco network to give you mobile phone dial tone, it uses your "generic" network to give you voice over IP -- on a PDA. would that be hot, or what? Now before you go off thinking I actually had an original idea, let's just set the record straight -- that one wasn't mine. It belongs to Bruce (who has the words Chief and Scientist in his title and is a new member of that exclusive and tightly knit circle of techno celebs who are my close personal friends). And I actually have no idea whether Steve is thinking about voice over IP on this Enterprise PDA. But I'll ask. I'll let you know if we get a response.

so that concludes the agenda for today.

now, a quick update on the personal front...

i've been iWork (Sun speak for work-from-home) for more than five years now. It's been awesome.  Lots of up-side.  On the downside: I used to be a really good driver. Well let's just say we've had some erosion in the skill set there. I don't commute, so I don't drive. I have hit my sister-in-law's car twice (three times if you count the one she doesn't know about) coming out of my driveway. Recently, i hit the house pulling into the garage -- gorging the passenger-side rear view mirror and leaving it hanging....

... like a distended eyeball. It's quite troubling, actually. Anyway, while I was in California last week I kept forgetting to put down the parking break in my rental car. The moral of the story: don't buy a used car from the rental car companies. People like me drive them.

and you get that little tid-bit for free.

mary

*Friday Free Stuff is not a contest. It's me giving away something that I personally own to somebody I choose. I pay for shipping with stamps that I buy at the post office.