October 2005

Congratulations to Tina and Stephen

by alec on October 31, 2005

Two friends of mine had their pictures in both the Toronto Globe and Mail, and the Ottawa Citizen this morning. Stephen Burns, and Tina Romeo-Salem are among the 30 graduates of Queen’s University’s Executive MBA in Ottawa program. Fifteens months of toil are done, and I’m sure it feels great! Congratulations.

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Zintel Releases .NET Runtime

by alec on October 31, 2005

My friend Mike Zintel, at Microsoft, dropped this to me in email over the weekend. Congratulations Mike!

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The product I’ve been working on for 3 years is released.

http://blogs.msdn.com/mikezintel/archive/2005/10/29/486731.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/mikezintel/archive/2005/09/29/475506.aspx

What is it? It’s a .NET language runtime, …, er developer productivity, er …

I am not a nerd. I’m not a nerd. I am not a nerd.

Oh hell.

Think of it as fuel injection for programmers. It makes the job of writing programs easier, faster, cheaper, and hopefully enables more interesting and reliable programs.

Mike.

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SBC CEO Ed Whitacre

October 31, 2005

Kevin Werbach posted a chunk of SBC CEO Ed Whitacres recent interview with BusinessWeek. Read the whole interview — it’s very revealing. The portion Kevin reacted to was the statement that "there’s going to have to be a mechanism for these people who use these pipes to pay for the portion they’re using". The incumbents have [...]

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Paul Martin’s Weekly Address

October 30, 2005

Paul Martin has kicked off a weekly radio address to the nation. It’s being cast in the mold of the US Presidential "Fireside Chats". However, the networks are treating it as advertising, and requiring the Liberal Party to pay for the spots. To make up for the fact that it’s only running on a few [...]

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My Nominees

October 30, 2005

I’m a little late to the party, and there are already many many great blogs nominated in the Canadian blog awards. My two additions: Best Business Blog: Jon Arnold. Jon’s a relatively new blogger, but he always has timely insights on the voice over IP industry. Best Sports Blog: Randy Morin’s Game Certainty. Randy religiously [...]

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ITEXPO Wrap

October 29, 2005

ITEXPO is over. I agree with Rich Tehrani’s assessment that the focus is now on the next generation. It was a busy show, too, although I had the impression that the Tehrani’s planned for a larger crowd. Some of the halls appeared quite empty, despite the fact that reports put attendance at a very respectable 7,000 attendees. [...]

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Forbes on Blogs

October 29, 2005

Quite a bit has been written already about the Forbes article "Attack of the Blogs". Some of the better pieces include Doc Searls’ "Blogosmear", Steve Rubels "Forbes Cover Story Blows It". Neville Hobson decries it as "Shallow". TechDirt recommends "reading it as comedy". Scoble thinks "we’re all being played". The EFF has written a good piece deconstructing [...]

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Kate Bush: Ariel

October 28, 2005

Got it wrong yesterday. The new Kate Bush album is called Ariel. I’m still looking forward to it.

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Jon Arnold Podcasts with me!

October 28, 2005

A couple of days ago, I recorded a podcast with Jon Arnold about iotum, the state of the industry, and a few thoughts on what I was seeing at the ITEXPO in LA. You can find that podcast here.

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