Are you bored?? I was.

So I had to take a breather from blogging, I was boring myself with my posts.  Not that I am a perfectionist, if you ask my wife, I am far from that mark.  I had noticed I was posting information you could readily find elsehwere and concentrated mostly on an ISV slant of product launches and press releases.

Don't get me wrong, I think its important to repurpose some content and provide an ISV slant.  In fact, you may yet see occasional posts like this from me.  But I wanted to take a new direction and one that played to my personality and passions. 

So I went back and read through a few of the early musing on software application development, (in my career lifetime :) ).  I think the article which stimulated me the most was Eric Raymond's "The Cathedral and the Bazaar".  In celebration, I've thrown together an article documenting our recent adoption of what we call the Community Technology Preview process, I should have that one done in the next week or two.  (I also noticed Eric S. Raymond is now really Eric Steven Raymond, he's finally ready for the world to know his middle name.  If you're running linux or UNIX, have some fun and grep /etc for his name, you'll be mildly surprised how many times it shows up.)

Completely seperate train of thought:

I'm not a fan of Web 2.0 or Internet 2.0, count me as an unbeliever.  If there becomes a Web 2.0, it will be at the infrastructure level and we'll actually have broad adoption of technologies like IPv6.  Coincidentally, I've been hearing about IPv6 since 1995 and 11 years later I still occasionally hear someone opine excitedly about its impending adoption, this produces a sheepish grin on my face which I rapidly try to hide with a half smile.

So count me a month older and no wiser than before.  I have a few other articles in the proverbial hopper and will try to begin releasing them when I'm semi-confident I'll only embarass myself with about 20% of you, and of course I'm using the 80/20 rule.

Cheers.