http://www.neward.net/ted/weblog/index.jsp?date=20040401#1080882525298

http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/04/01/HNlonghornslip_1.html

Julia Lerman, an independent software developer in Fairfax, Vermont, said she does not expect the beta delay to affect her work. “In this early stage, the people who should be fiddling with Longhorn probably already have access to it and will continue to see pre-beta bits. I currently have so many things to learn and experiment with that Longhorn is a constant temptation that I have to set aside,” she said.

Unfortunately, the article author has only so much room for quotes, so he couldn’t add in that I had also said that it is worth the wait so that they can get current security issues worked out and that it will only be that much better of a product and a more stable and representative version of what Longhorn will be in the long run. Darn I wish he had been able to put “Burlington, VT” in there.

I’m with Heather! Funny though, I always think of my dad.

Shelley Powers (aka BurningBird) has written 15 computer books (including books on ASP, Javascript, Perl, DHTML, Blogging) so when she talks about tech book publishers, I’m all ears. Here she ponders O’Reilly’s formula for success – through conferences, collaborating with other book publishers and dividing their publications into brands. Of course the last two are also strategies of other publishers – think Addison-Wesley Series or SAMS’ Series. Conferences are very iffy propositions these days, but O’Reilly’s do tend to add to their “aura“.  See what Shelley has to say on the subject.

It’s not really an official .NET user group, but there is a Microsoft Student Ambassador at SUNY Binghamton (New York) who puts on a lot of .NET technical meetings there and has organized an Imagine Cup event  that takes place tomorrow. Since Binghamton is where my parents live and I really need (and WANT) to go visit, I am going to combine a trip and speak to Kenny Weiss’s group. The best part is that I will be doing the Defenses and Countermeasures session that I did at DevDays Hartford and Boston, so that will be great fun. Kenny’s efforts on campus are pretty impressive – he gets anywhere from 25-60 students at his “Tech Talks” and has organized the local Imagine Cup.

So the date is going to be Monday April 19th and I believe it starts at 5pm.

Hmmm maybe I can get a pal to come down from Cornell – if he’s not on one of his world tours! eh? (gratuitous link to be sure he sees this post…)

by way of Marcie, Chris Maunder gets into the April Fool’s mood… it’s a pretty funny read!

Elizabeth was standing for a few minutes next to someone wearing a Longhorn sweatshirt and pondered the perfect opening line… I’m sure “Hey cool, Longhorn!” might have done the trick!! Well, maybe it was a sweatshirt for that steakhouse chain, anyway.

When I saw ‘Macallan Windows CE release Due this Summer’ from Mary Jo Foley’s Microsoft watch, I laughed. “Funny, “ I thought, “that can’t be a reference to The Macallan “  – a high end Scotch Whiskey (I don’t drink whiskey but I once had a job that required me to be in the know).  It was clear that this is indeed, the reference as I saw further in the article that the code name for the current version of Windows CE is McKendric.

This is the third month in a row I have had trouble paying my Verizon Wireless bill on line. Even the pay by phone method had me going around in circles before I gave up and pressed “0”.  It took me over 10 minutes to finally find out from someone that they were updating the systems (on a monday morning? must have been some problems, poor I.T. folks!!) and just gave up and am putting my check in the mail.

I think that the project that Robert and Sam have been working on (bcgi Mobile Guardian) might help Verizon out…

You’ve GOT to be kidding me. Robert Scoble mentions in a post on searching for people that if you google “Robert” he comes up second (well 3rd in my search – but damned impressive). So just out of curiousity – well, I came up on page three – after a few Julia Childs a few more Julia Roberts and a heck of a lot of other Julia’s. It was just funny to see. Now Avonelle Lovhaug, she’s got a good google first name! She comes out on top. Shelley Powers is a page one hit though she does have to compete with a poet and that Frankenstein author. Halley Suitt– A#1 Halley. Rory Blyth gets a first page, but is topped by Rory Gallagher and the phenomenal Rory Block. Werner Vogels even eeks it onto the bottom of page one for Werner’s (glad to see one of my favorite director’s there too.) Okay, so these are not TOTALLY common names, but ROBERT is not that unique! Anyway that was a silly use of my time.