From the quote, you can tell what I
did tonight. It was fun, dinner with
Miguel,
Sam
Ruby,
Joshua
Allen,
Dr.
GUI ,
Lee Fisher and
Omri.
The food was OK and the conversation was interesting
with us Borg facing off against the Open Source
proponents in friendly conversation. I should add
that Sam works on Apache SOAP and came along with
Miguel which should indicate which side he fell on. I
had invited
Eric
Gunnerson and
Anders Hejlsberg but Eric was ill and Anders had
a previous engagement [I should have emailed him last
week instead of a few hours before dinner :)].
I finally have internet and now can continue with my
work on
SiXDML
which will probably tick off my [new] girlfriend when
I start writing/coding on the weekends besides the
amount of time I spend at work during the week. The
previous statement reminds me of an amusing comment
Miguel made at dinner about us MSFT employees needing
to not work on weekends so we can give the Open
Source folks time to catch up. :)
I'm sure some OSS zealot will misconstrue the
previous statment but I've borrowed a leaf from
Miguel's book[inside joke] and will simply say Hakuna
Matata. Flame away, I'm used to it anyway. *chuckle*.
Anyway about SiXDML, I got a cool message today from
Dietrich
Ayala saying he was working on a PHP
implementation which makes me realize I have to step
up efforts on an updated version of the spec as well
as the paper I plan to submit to the
EEXTT
2002 conference and get to visit Hong Kong.
K5 has unfortunately been going through a suckage
phase which I assume has to do with the new influx of
users from Slashdot. However since this is probably
the second or third time I've watch the cycle of "new
user influx->crappy meta stories->lots of
MLPs->lots of slashdot->normalcy", it's not as
irritating as it used to be to watch the percentage
of intelligent discussion and articles on K5 drop by
almost 50 per cent for a few weeks.
What is interesting is that I've come to the
conclusion that Slashdot's audience really does
outclass K5's for technical issues. My last 3
storries that ran on both sites elicited a larger
percentage of informed and insightful
responses on Slashdot than on K5. I was particularly
surprised that
the Slashdot version of my Open Source security
article was more objectively and critically
received than the
Kuro5hin version. The aricle
also ran on developer.com to good albeit much
fewer responses.
I finally bought a DVD player after holding out for
so long in protest of DeCSS but finally realized I
was probably the last person on Earth still
boycotting for that reason and went ahead and threw
down for one. So far, my pr0n and cartoon watching
experiences have been greatly improved by the upgrade
from VHS although the increased cost of the media
probably means I'll be sticking to VHS for a while
unless the features on the DVD are particularly
compelling. I'll probably purchase a TiVo as well
once I get cable hooked up because I'm tired of
missing Rap City on
B.E.T.
*YAWN*
Sleep calls. I'll probably add another entry this
weekend.