Folks coming to Austin often ask me for recommendations of things to do and eat. Here's my most recent write up. Feel free to leave comments and additions, someday I'll polish it up real good like. There's two foods you need to eat, of course: BBQ and Tex-Mex. Austin has it's own type of Tex-Mex (according to me ;>) which is not exactly the traditional stuff you'd expect, and definitely not the Cali-mex you'd be used to if you're from that way: we don't do that many "

(Cross posted from my work blog.) It's panel promotion time for SXSW 2010. This year, I'm going for a panel on selling to the enterprise, targeted at the SXSW crowd, of course. I thought this would be a fun contrast to the consumer-heavy, "free" stuff that the SXSW sessions and panels are usually full of. The best way to "monetize" is to get paid for what you do and sell, to put it one way.

Charles asked me to think of some ways you'd use sandboxed JavaScript on the server side - I jump right in with some examples: To listen to the episode, subscribe to the podcast feed in iTunes or whatever, download the episode directly, or click play below to listen right here: Click here for episode MP3 We'll see if any of it helps Charles out with his talk.

Had a strange dream Monday night where I was in some largish, darkly-lit meeting room (almost like the business casual equivalent of an opium lounge conference room) with Brandon Whichard eating dried edamame. A continually morphing character of Steve Mills/Sam Palmisano came into the room. Brandon and he started talking about programming in Java, as I recall. After awhile, I was chided by Mills/Palmisano for not jumping into the conversation and taking advantage of him being there.

Had a strange dream Monday night where I was in some largish, darkly-lit meeting room (almost like the business casual equivalent of an opium lounge conference room) with Brandon Whichard eating dried edamame. A continually morphing character of Steve Mills/Sam Palmisano came into the room. Brandon and he started talking about programming in Java, as I recall. After awhile, I was chided by Mills/Palmisano for not jumping into the conversation and taking advantage of him being there.

Had a strange dream Monday night where I was in some largish, darkly-lit meeting room (almost like the business casual equivalent of an opium lounge conference room) with Brandon Whichard eating dried edamame. A continually morphing character of Steve Mills/Sam Palmisano came into the room. Brandon and he started talking about programming in Java, as I recall. After awhile, I was chided by Mills/Palmisano for not jumping into the conversation and taking advantage of him being there.

Last night I watched No Maps for these Territories which can get seriously embarrassing to watch in front of your spouse (who didn't faun over the cyberpunk as kid) at times. You know, like, "too heavy, man" and "what are you watching?" sort of stuff. Esp. when Bono starts reading. Bono! It's essentially a bunch of William Gibson talking about himself, his books, and writing. Here's some notes, quotes, summaries, and paraphrases from it.

Last night I watched No Maps for these Territories which can get seriously embarrassing to watch in front of your spouse (who didn't faun over the cyberpunk as kid) at times. You know, like, "too heavy, man" and "what are you watching?" sort of stuff. Esp. when Bono starts reading. Bono! It's essentially a bunch of William Gibson talking about himself, his books, and writing. Here's some notes, quotes, summaries, and paraphrases from it.

Check out this excerpt from the pretty good report “TORA BORA REVISITED: HOW WE FAILED TO GET BIN LADEN AND WHY IT MATTERS TODAY”: Afghan villagers who were providing food and other supplies for the Al Qaeda fighters at Tora Bora also confirmed bin Laden’s presence. Fury said some of the villagers were paid by the CIA for information about precise locations of clusters of fighters that could be targeted for bombing runs.