(Hello there! I'm finally getting around to doing a newsletter-y thing. I like the ones I see, the single page of links. In the bricolage style of weblogging, if that word still exists, that I operate in by default, I thought I'd narrow down to a sort of "Selections from the Daily Wunderkammer" for the daily email. I'll try it for awhile and see if it works out.) (The next iteration will drop this introductory text and just be the, you know, "

# SXSWIt's SXSW time in Austin which is always enjoyable. Lots of folks come to town as I'm sure you, dear reader, know. It's popular to complain. - a sentence that could stand on it's own - about it, but I have no beef. I'm lucky enough - so lucky! - to get invited to the #meatup party each year and it's a blast to get some free drinks and meat on top of Fogo de Chão.

I noticed there a few subscribers out there, so I should start writing. "This whole discussion of of application development in the cloud and creating applications"I try to travel less now-a-days with a 5 month and 4 year old, not to mention a wife who enjoys my company. Nonetheless, I was off to IBM Pulse earlier this week in Las Vegas. It's their Tivoli conference, and plenty fun, professionally, now that they're cloud crazy.