The problem with fame in the IT industry is that when someone dreams about me, it’s a dude. : )

Here. So far, it's provided the information required for two of my Orkut friends to wish me a happy birthday. Other than that, I haven't found a use for the site, however...

Don Box always used to say that COM Is Love, although I'm pretty sure he'd agreed that we've long since given up COM for a new trophy technology .NET which, apparently, is about developer love. One guy spent 17 years doing COBOL. I think he needs our love most of all...

I get to read all of Eric Sink's pieces before we publish them, so I got to follow the link to the trailer for Commedian before you guys did (although the movie's been out for 2 years, so you had a bit of a lead...). While I like Jerry Seinfield and I've placed this movie next on my NetFlix queue, I can't believe that it'll live up to the trailer.

I just talked to the 2 cars filled with 5 members of the MSDN Content Strategy team on a road trip down to the Portland Nerd Dinner, tonight (5/18/04) at 6:30pm in the Washington Square Mall food court. Also, make sure not to buy your dinner 'til the MSDNers are here with their corp. credit cards and can pay for your crappy mall food. : )

As my friend Steve puts it, according to Google, I'm "even more famous than the act of selling itself." : )

As much as I love the Friends show for it’s portrayal of unconditional love (as a geek, people loving me no matter what I do is appealing), I have to admit that it works best on a backdrop of few money worries (Monica’s apartment is worth $6000/month?!? No wonder I don’t live in NYC…). NPR’s Mike Pesca opens up my eyes to the lies and hypocrisies (hyprocrisi? [see? geek!]) in the Friends theme song and is hilarious about it.

I got this email from Brian Jepson, one of my favorite DevCon speakers (he ran his PowerPoint slides by clicking on his cell phone!), and I just had to share it:

“My stepson got a 99 on his driving test today–I think the blue Sells Brothers t-shirt that he’s so fond of (the one I got at the XML SellsCon that he immediately swiped from me) gave him that extra boost of skillz and confidence…”

The conference t-shirt should also help him on his SATs and with his college entrance essay, but the downside is that it repels women. Sorry! : )