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Last update: 22/06/2008; 12:09:11 PM. April 2005 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat           1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Mar   May Home Stories Brian Sullivan's Flickr Space Meeting by Wire Courses by Wire ELearning Development Weblog Scobleizer Scripting News Zope Plone Brian Sullivan Auto Racing Creative Problem Solving E-Learning Jazz NetMeeting Zope/Plone Recent Posts Happy 60th  6/16/08 Does Twitter have founderitis?  5/20/08 Toronto Zoo  5/19/08 Twitter continues on its trip to down the toilet bowl  5/19/08 Regular Twitter outage  5/15/08 Twitter forked again  5/14/08 Google maps test  5/9/08 Twitter $$$ continued  5/9/08 End game for Skype - $0 revenue? What about Twitter?  4/28/08 Twitter is saved!  4/23/08 Tweetless  4/21/08 Robert Scoble and Twitter  4/14/08 Twitter vs. Pownce  3/5/08 Fragile DNS  2/25/08 Value of Video Blogging  2/13/08 Why do Twitter "upgrades" always seem like "downgrades"  1/31/08 Buffalo State vs. Geneseo  1/28/08 Facebook picture security/privacy breach  1/17/08 Big Lens  1/12/08 Bill Wadman  1/7/08 Hotmail down?  12/29/07 ROM  12/27/07 Merry Christmas  12/23/07 Loren Feldman - knob extraordinaire?  12/19/07 Twitter $$$  12/15/07 Free high speed internet service - the irony  12/15/07 Lijit Search		April 6, 2005   Queen's Park Lunch I went and had lunch today in the member's dining room at Queen's Park (that is the provincial parliament in Ontario for those Ontario challenged) with Bob Delaney, a fellow Microsoft MVP and the MPP for Mississauga West. I got to sit and watch parliament in action after lunch from the Member's Gallery (I think that is what is called). A particularly raucous Question Period with the premier and both opposition leaders was part of the action. I thoroughly enjoyed it -- a real bird's eye view of government in action. Thanks to Bob. P.S. Just to make it official: http://hansardindex.ontla.on.ca/hansardeissue/38-1/l124.htm 9:46:17 PM        comment []    Longhorn 2007? Rumours abound that Longhorn is now scheduled to ship in 2007 rather than 2006. What with the fact that has already been emasculated, this latest rumour if it is true is a huge embarrassment to Microsoft. Jim Allchin took umbrage at the "Shorthorn" label saying it was "derogatory", what will he now respond? It seems my "Microsoft Osbourning itself" quip is looking more and more like a believable situation. Further thoughts: I thought Mooing for Longhorn hoopla had completely died down -- looks like with good reason. All the "evangelism", all the promised "in the Longhorn timeframe" fixes and changes and promises look sillier and sillier now. I have seen a number of failed computing projects in my years -- and this one has all the trappings and smell of just such a project: huge expectations -- encouraged and pushed but never met constant schedule delays balkanization of developed technology in an attempt to salvage the pieces If Microsoft has truly bet the farm on Longhorn (as they have proudly indicated in the past) shareholders should really be worried. 9:40:47 AM        comment []    © Copyright 2008 Brian Sullivan.