Coyote Gulch

Thursday, February 13, 2003

Farewell From David Stutz
David Stutz has always been my favorite MS guy. Says David, "But the tide had turned, and a realization that 'the net' was a far more interesting place than 'the PC' began to creep into the heads of consumers and enterprises alike ... Microsoft developer tools have yet to embrace the loosely coupled mindset that today's leading edge developers apply to work and play."
Dave Winer comments on Stutz's essay, "It's not just open source developers that Microsoft must learn to work with. They often are just as arrogant and hell-bent on world domination as Microsoft itself. Better to partner with those who accept everyone's right to exist, who assume there will be no world domination, and try to make the users more powerful by offering choice everywhere. This is the philosophy of inclusion. " I've been trying to get Winer's (and my) message out in the organization that I'm part of. A few people are listening.
8:38:10 PM

Bush Speech
Hilarious but way over the line.
8:24:50 PM

2003 Denver Mayoral Election
Apparently the City of Denver is not business friendly but Sue Casey is going to fix that from this this story in the Denver Post Online. "Unveiling her economic plan Wednesday in front of the LoDo Rotary Club, the former city councilwoman proposed sweeping changes in city bureaucracy so that Denver is friendlier to small businesses, investors and bankers, and centers of opportunity such as Stapleton, Lowry and Gateway." Casey also plans to reorganize the various offices of the Mayor that deal with economic development under a new economic development czar. I like the idea that she has to partner with small business on health care. Healthcare is a mounting problem for Denver cititzens. Of course there'll be no way to pay for it in the current economic climate and it'll be frought with problems in identifying what a small business is. At least it'll be talked about.
The Post also ran an article yesterday about the mayoral candidates water plans. "Although differing on courses of action, both candidates agreed that conservation and rewarding community members who are frugal with water use was their No.1 priority." Zavaras didn't mention that Denver Water has been working for more than a year on replacing their aging computer software. I guess he plans to take credit for giving them the idea. In a similar candidate sleight of hand, Hickenlooper forgot to mention the efforts by Public Works over the last few years to identify sources of pollution from the city sanitary sewer system and rectify it. I guess he'll just replace all of the infrastructure in his first term. You'll do a better job of cleaning up the South Platte, John, if you would just increase the rainfall around here.
5:44:24 AM

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