March 2007

And I am going to do some learning about that. I can’t wait til Monday. I don’t think I’ve ever in recent memory said that I could not wait til Monday, but I think I will actually look forward to it for the next few weeks as I’ll be taking a photography lighting class.

This is a very exciting next move for me in my favorite hobby.

The magnetic field of my body makes watches stop. It started when I was in my 20’s. I had several watches I really liked (and that was the time of the SWATCHWATCH for you oldtimers) and then one day I noticed the watch had stopped working. I didn’t think much of it, but it kept happening. I finally gave up and chalked it up to me having some freaky chemistry that hated watches. I never ever met anyone else that this happened to.

So today, I was walking with a couple of ladies in my information architecture workshop. We were on break and checking out the spa facilities. We got on the topic of watches because there was a $10 store next to the spa. (gotta love Vegas for these things…) Lisa started to tell a tale of watches breaking and time stopping. Then even stranger, the other women we were walking with also confessed to this time stopping ability.

So i have this weird anomoly, I’ve never met anyone with it besides me and in one day three of us with this special watch breaking/time stopping magnetic field came together. Not only did we come together, but we managed to discover a random detail such as this about one another.

Gosh, the universe is really freakin weird.

Ever noticed how many songs, album titles, band names contain the word broken? I was cleaning out my library and I searched for the band Broken West and it struck me that ‘broken’ brought back more results than I would have thought it would.

I really like the site linkedin. It’s got a nice professional feel to it and many of my friends and colleagues have joined so it seems like it’s kind of become a little bit of a defacto standard (for now, everything seems so temporary these days….)

They just added (or maybe i just noticed) a way to import your addresses from another account (google, yahoo, etc) and match up your contacts with linked in members. I really like this because they fixed something that I always felt was a problem. My addresses were already in another tool, finding people on linked in to invite them just became much easier and leverages the work I’ve already done building my contact list somewhere else. Chalk another one up for sharing. Thanks linkedin.

Whenever I get that email response with ‘Comments Inline’ at the top I just want to pull my hair out. I know that I’m now going to be forced to weave through something that has just been made much more complex because the person responding has decided to off load that cognitive burden on me.

Please don’t respond to emails like this. Because you’ll do it, then a third person will add on to it. Then I’ll get the email and I’ll have to spend 15 minutes deconstructing the darn thing. Here’s a hint….I’m not going to deconstruct it.

So if you don’t want me to read your email, put your comments inline.

I was so happy to read this announcement today.

Sun Microsystems added Ruby support to the Netbeans. I really like this because I work at Sun and I’m a big fan. I also really like this because it means we are recognizing what is relevant to many developers out there. Relevance is good. Go get your Netbeans now!