Archive for April, 2007

Launch at Lunch

April 24th, 2007

While you sit down to enjoy that turkey or tofurkey sandwich at your desk, perhaps you could surf over to JBoss.ORG and marvel at the new design, organization and layout.
The team that pulled this together includes Adam Warski, Tomek Szymanski, Rysiek Kozmik, Przemek Dej, Pawel Wrzeszcz, Mark Newton, James Cobb and Meriah Garrett. Assists […]

A More Pronouncable Maven Corp

April 18th, 2007

Today, my Canadian friend Jason van Zyl announced his new company based around all things maven.
Jason, as you may know, is the founder of both Maven and the first maven-centric company, Mergere. For some history, Mergere was a child of Simula Labs. Simula started life as a VC-ish incubator, but now seems to […]

Silent Paint Remover

April 4th, 2007

Today, the Man In Brown showed up, and dropped off some boxes.
They were for my wife. Damn!
Then he came back! And brought a box for me. Inside the box there was some flavorless edible packing peanuts (they dissolved amazingly quickly in your mouth) protecting a Silent Paint Remover.
This thing rocks!
I live in an […]

Economics of Gold Foil Stars

April 2nd, 2007

As a youngster, I did the things normal youngsters would do. I went to school, church, camp, scout meetings. At all of these places, if I did what was expected, many times I’d get a gold foil star.
When you’re very young, the gold foil star itself is the reward. Do something good, […]