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I’m going to be in Austin, Texas all next week for the Day Job. Seems like most folks I used to know in Austin have moved to Houston or other places. If you are in Austin, and particularly if you want to buy me some beers, let me know.
I don’t know the area, […]

This is a fantastic idea.
It’s an alarm clock in the form of a pig’s head. It is no ordinary pig-head-shaped alarm clock, though. Instead of buzzing, it gently wakes you up by delivering some hot and delicious bacon to you.
Bacon!
How can that be wrong?
It’s basically just an alarm clock that has had the buzzer […]

Last night I was standing in my kitchen eating some chips straight from the bag while waiting for my wife to finish making her snack. Of course, I turn the bag around and read the backside. We do this with cereal boxes, too.
Sure, we discard the plastic tube the microwave burrito comes in […]

Henri Yanell made some comments on my previous post. I interpreted them to mean something like the following:

Within a project’s community, one or more companies may spring forth from the project. They share the same community and prospects, and their customers may overlap. (Overlapping customers not shown).
Additionally. within a thriving community exists […]

First, there was the project.

The project was created by some guy, in some spare bedroom, at some hour in the dark of night, in some town. He may have done it out of academic interest. Or maybe it solved some problem for him. Ultimately, others shared the same interest or problem, and the […]

Tonight, since my wife had a fever, I went wandering around the house in search of aspirin. Of course I find the huge freaking tub of ibuprofen we picked up at Target a while ago. But I’m looking for aspirin. I finally open the right cabinet and find that distinctive aspirin-bottle-shaped bottle of […]

Communities exist independent of any actual connections between people. There’s a community of people who have all bungee-jumped off the same bridge as you, even if you’ve never met them.
But, throw a Bridge Day, and the community becomes visible.
With online communities, this is quite evident. Some communities are purely based around the tools […]

Monday morning, I woke up to find myself transformed into a Red Hat employee.
Yes, that’s right, I’ve joined Red Hat. More specifically, I joined JBoss, a division of Red Hat, to lead up JBoss.ORG. You may recall that a little more than a year ago, JBoss acquired the Drools business rule engine. […]

I struggled reading Shakespeare in high-school. We’d have to read a few scenes a day, completing a work in maybe 2 to 3 weeks.
At university, though, a professor noted that a group of 20 people can somehow manage to perform something like King Lear in under 3 hours, including costume changes, dramatic emoting, and […]

My good friend Brian “I love a good tamale” McCallister apparently blogged about a blog entry that Hernri wrote about an IM conversation he had with Brian.
That’s so meta.
They both made the point that they haven’t enjoyed blogging because it felt like they were writing articles. It gets tiring sounding pedagogical all the time.
But […]