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As noted earlier, Rebecca and I flew off to Europe last week for a little holiday, JavaPolis, and a week of JBoss.org team meetings.
With the winds behind us, we managed to make it to Schiphol airport in a record 6.5hrs from Newark. Not bad at all.
Met up with James Cobb, the kick-ass .org brand-manager/designer at [...]

In about 24 hours I’ll be jetting towards Antwerp, Belgium to attend JavaPolis. I’ll also be meeting most of my team for the first time, as the development stars from Poland wing their way westward.
JBoss has a booth, and a bundle of core developers (and management) will either be attending or speaking.

As Movember winds down, I decided to trim my Douglas Coupland/Generation X/Singles goatee into something with more character. Like last year.
I’m sporting either a French or John Waters mo’ now. I’m pretty sure this isn’t my wife’s favorite look. But, my body, my choice.
And yes, the mustache itself forces me to make [...]

Once again, we’ll announce winners of the Innovation Awards at JBoss World in February.

While there’s other opportunities for the projects at JBoss to get the nod for their innovation, the Innovation Awards are a chance for you, the users of JBoss projects, to get some glory. That glory includes a free pass to the [...]

Every year there is a time that men can put aside their differences, stop their fighting, and do some good.
This important time of year is Movember.
Grow a mustache and help raise awareness for men’s health issues.
Last year, I cheated, by simply shaving down an existing beard into a mustache. This year, I started clean-shaven [...]

Radar Networks, my former employer, is finally going public with what they’re up to. To be honest, at this point even I have no clue what they’re launching. I’ve been gone for a while, and they seem to have been massively busy and hiring the past 9 months. I’ll be watching intently, [...]

Earlier this week, Katie Poplin sent out the notifications to people who submitted presentation proposals for JBoss World 2008. The official schedule will be posted later, but I’m happy to say that my proposal for a JBoss.org round-table discussion about running open-source projects was accepted.
I’ll be drafting some core developers, external contributors and users [...]

Browsing the website for the Web 2.0 Summit coming up in October, I tripped across the Launch Pad portion. The introduction says, in part
While it’s great to be chosen to launch your new company at a conference like Web 2.0 Summit, the reality of the market is that the majority of successful Web 2.0 [...]

Since Ninjas don’t talk, though, I suggest talking like a pirate today. It may even help reduce global warming.

My friend Lance, here in Asheville, hacks for Electric Sheep Company during the day, and by night is actor extraordinaire.

Starting next week, the immediate theatre project will be presenting Copenhagen, with Lance playing the physicist Werner Heisenberg. The play centers around a meeting (in Copenhagen) that occurred between the seemingly at-odds scientists during the [...]