Cloudy Thinking

This is my holiday gift to you. Enjoy. Hint: it’s about the NSA.

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There’s a surge in flu on the US west coast due to the A/California/07/2004 virus, unrelated to the dreaded A/H5N1 avian flu, bbut a nasty character even so. Sabin Russell writes about this nasty flu outbreak in SF Gate.

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Ken Belson writes in The New York Times about Fiddling With Format While DVD’s Burn. He makes the point that the protracted battle between Blu-Ray and HD-FVD disk formats could become moot because people are adopting other ways to view on demand.

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Take the time to download Mary Meeker’s slides about Global Technology and Internet Trends.

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Paul Saffo presents seven rules for forecasting.

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The title of Cloudy Thinking says “by Ron K. Jeffries” to distinguish me from the famous Ron Jeffries.

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Twenty oh-six (2006) is approaching at the speed of light. I’m selecting a few projects to work on during the new year. Becoming Open is my first pick.

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Microsoft should immediately launch a well-funded major initiative to accelerate the success of Ruby on Rails (RoR).

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Martin LaMonica of CNet has a good interview with eco-friendly architect and designer William McDonough.

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I am writing this brief update from a Firefox browser instance running on Ubunto Linux running on a VMWare player installed on my Windows XP ThinkPad T42. After two (large!) downloads and a simple install, it just works.

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You’ve listened to me mumble about virtualization long enough. It’s time to translate my words into action. So I’ve downloaded the (free) VMWare Player, and their new Browser Appliance.

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This no longer current job posting for a senior software architect to work on the OpenLaszlo client runtime includes informative diagrams.

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