Once in a while

I take a break and let life wash over me . Today is going to be a day for that.

Took the girls to school today. It's amazing how the simplest things can be so enjoyable.

Google Wave

So sad to see Google throw in the towel on Google Wave.

In retrospect the obvious is pretty clear - the way to get mass wave adoption was to build a really solid bridge between SMTP, IM, and Twitter/ostatus worlds.

Yes, I know people did build those all of those connections and more but the wave team was a fairly small team and they didn't focus on making any of those Google production ready which would have led to people coming to depend on them as a primary inbox type of application.

I still think the concept of a live, read/write, communicating web world is where we are headed.  Wave was definitely ahead of its time.

Long trip

The trip home was longer than normal. I was able to use public transport the whole way.

On the way home I walked past St. Bernard's church - it was the first day of the combined parish. The bells started ringing and the sky was pure blue on a warm summer day. Perfection!

School days

We're meeting with the principal and teacher in a bit...

iPad

Review -- I think this is a great way to surf at very low power.

Also - reading is immersive enough that I have gone through a couple of books on the thing.

Salt Fork 2010

Tap dancing in my PJs

My daughter insisted that I post this.  Not sure why but it's kind of amusing to me.

My daughter insisted that I post this.  Not sure why but I think it's kind of amusing to me.