20051129 Tuesday November 29, 2005

Rumours of my death...

Flattery abounds, it seems - I am flattered by David Berlind's concern for my health and sanity (and have forwarded it to my manager to act on as I head out to the Java User Group in Stockholm for tonight's meeting...). And I completely agree with him about Jim Grisanzio as an excellent commentator. But I have to say that one of the reasons I feel at liberty to leave my blog untouched for 20 days while I go to speak in Japan and Brazil (and, I admit, take it easy over Thanksgiving) is the fact that I've already multiplied the workers at the harvest by the very creation (with many others) of blogs.sun.com and by its uptake by 3,000 or so Sun employees.

Having said that, one of the things I've not quite come to terms with is how to keep up a stream of worthwhile blogging while I am engaged in confidential activity. I find my thought processes consumed by it and my ability to keep hints of it out of my serious writing very hard. Consequently, I tend to stick to del.icio.us postings and personal comment over on Webmink during such periods. I'm back now, though, and I have plenty to say on both open source governance and on open document format standards...


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Changing of the Guard

I was going to post yesterday but my Pipex connection at home failed and of course they only offer support the hours they are working, not me. But better late than never, I'd like to wish Claire Giordano well in her move to A9. As engineering manager, Claire was a pivotal figure in the final process of releasing the Solaris source code to the OpenSolaris community, and then as marketing manager she has followed through with the transformation. This Tiresian experience made her ideally suited for her new job and I hope she has great fun and success there.


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