Monday, October 31, 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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