Scene: In an airport terminal, a man bumps into an armed services member wearing a camouflage outfit.
Things have worked out well, timing-wise. Curling has started right about the same time as all this stress at work. If you haven't tried curling you might not think it looks very physical, but really it is. For me, at least, it's a great way to work off stress. It helps to have a good curling night like tonight was, of course.
On the way back from Houston, as the first leg of my flight was touching down in Atlanta, just at the bumpy point where the wheels first touch the ground, a man in the seat in front of me crossed himself. At the time I wondered if he had just saved us all.
Wow, stressful week so far for BenPositive. Everything will work out, but it seems like a lot is in the air right now. I like to go onsite to customers, though, so finding out today that I need to be near Houston Monday is not so bad. But rarely does anyone go onsite to customers because everything is going perfectly well.
Well, some things at work didn't go so well today. My positive hope, though, is to turn a negative into a positive. We'll see if we can't implement some great software development practices in the process of cleaning up things that may or may not have needed cleaning up in the first place.
I think today was a pretty good day, but right now I'm kind of bummed because I was trying to get on and watch some CurlTV but it keeps saying my account isn't the right kind to watch. Except I just paid them money, so it should work. Maybe it just takes some time to go through... alas.
An intelligent person I've been in various amounts of contact with for work has been saying for a while now that the Nintendo DS is the $100 laptop. Let me decode that a bit: The $100 laptop, now One Laptop per Child (OLPC), is a project to create a mobile computing device that in very large quantities (i.e. millions+) can be purchased and distributed to every child in the world. I'm simplifying things here, and ignoring a lot of interesting cultural and social discussion topics that seem to hang around OLPC. Back to the DS, though, the idea is that for 020 you can already get a mobile computing device with wireless networking, a touch screen, and even voice recognition - and it's already in the pockets and backpacks of millions of kids. Of course, the DS is a very closed system and the cost to get in to official development start pretty high, which contrasts with the OLPC all open source all the time policy.
