back in the RTP...

Back in RTP again. Traveling for work and staying at the Wyndham again. Flight out was a little late a little bumpy, but manageable.

The flight out had me thinking about legislating technology. For the best reasons legislation was created to make airtravel safe. The down side to this legislation is that the Air companies are slow to adopt innovations. Our planes are old and unable to take advantage of all the advances that technology has put forward into other areas of transportation. Think how far our cars have come forward in the last few decades. I'm sure the issues is more complex than I lay out but I still that the current round of American air companies have become dependent on the outlays of the government and aviation rules which have led to a decaying infrastructure that is unable to cope with rapidly changing environments and requirements. I do enjoy travel but I really want to avoid American air companies as much as possible, whenever possible, at least until I see some changes.

The lab is coming along slowly. Built the first image for VMWare. Next step is going to be deploying to ESX. I'm a step behind in Xen, need to do a little more work to get that going. Also need to upload all this stuff tomorrow so that Cathy can test it.

Started reading "A Not So Small Life" not very far with it, but it is giving me some perspective. It is pulling me in the direction of additional introspection. The question I have next is whether I want do exhibit my introspection. On the one hand I think I can benefit from the feedback of my friends and family. On the other hand, it is a fairly public website connected to google. There is a limit to how much I need to share that wide :) Is there a penalty to how much I share? Probably. There are limits to what I should say. But at the same time I think there is something worthwhile to thinking about what I can say and putting more out there.

I should disclaim up front that these are my opinions and not those of my employers. Hmm. Something to update in the template I think.

deadlines deadlines deadlines!

I have a lot to do in a little time. Project A from work is eating a ton of time at this point. Way more hours that I was hoping to work. I have a WSTC Lab 1st draft due by the 21st, my Firefox plugin has to be updated by the 18th, and I have a WSTC presentation due in early April.

Of course it doesn't help that my lack of time is making me look at other projects as well. I want to try and build that market driven development engine using Project Zero. I also want to wrangle a bit with Google Gears. After hearing about the App Server that runs javascript on the server and client, I wonder if that's a better solution for Gears like functionality. Of course gears has the requirement to work on all browsers. For my curiosity I could build a Firefox plugin only version to run my own apps both from a server or in a connected -less mode. Perhaps Python might be an other accessible choice... there was code samples available for compling python into a plugin. ..or perhaps not, this note from Brandon Eich suggests this might not be a great idea.