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Coming to Austin? Here's what I recommend - Things to do in Austin

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 "

Enterprise Gold at SXSW

(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.

My Work is infecting my dreams

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.