After yesterday’s result I expect flatten out pretty quickly and not lose much more until later next week. Still, making good progress.
Entries from February 2007
February 17, 2007
“Ship something”
Don Box, a year ago today: “If you want to reach both audiences before your competition does, you’ll avoid indulging in religious debates and ship something.”
February 17, 2007
Freshy doesn’t work so well…
Didn’t like how Freshy rendered some links so I’m switching to another theme.
February 17, 2007
Enterprise and Web Convergence
From a post over at my MSDN blog: “Beyond social software, there are also the concepts of aggregation and attention that are critical to this new paradigm for enterprise software. On the Web today, it is becoming increasingly easy to aggregrate data from disparate sources to find the information you need. Most major Web sites [...]
February 16, 2007
Who is influencing who?
Dave Winer: “If you add up the smarts in their room and the smarts in our room, we win, because there are so many more of us than there are of them, even though Microsoft is a very large company. Their challenge has always been to find a way to harness our power, to make [...]
February 16, 2007
258.8
Down from 260.2 yesterday. Obviously this represents a loss of water or some other anomaly. I’m drinking lots of fluids and my diet is balanced so I’m not concerned. The good news is that I’m clearly not gaining anything right now. I expect to gain some weight back this weekend or to plateau on weight [...]
February 15, 2007
Interoperability, Choice and Open XML
Tom Robertson and Jean Paoli: “The IBM driven effort to force ODF on users through public procurement mandates is a further attempt to restrict choice. In XML-based file formats, which can easily interoperate through translators and be implemented side by side in productivity software, this exclusivity makes no sense – except to those who lack [...]
February 15, 2007
We used to call this marketing, didn’t we?
Michael Gartenberg: “What is an enthusiast evangelist? Our job is to find, engage and work with enthusiasts and other influencers and show them all the cool stuff that Microsoft is doing. In short, it’s our job to act as the bridge between Microsoft and end users.”
I’m not sold on “enthusiast evangelism” yet. To me, this [...]
February 15, 2007
260.2
Randy Holloway| Peak weight: Approximately 265| Current weight: 260.2| Goal weight: 199
I’m inspired by Jason to share my weight loss goal as well.
First, some background. I’ve gained and lost a lot of weight over the past 10 years. When my wife and I first met back in 1994, I weighed about 165 lbs. That was [...]
