I’ve been following Lunch 2.0 for awhile now, but I had gotten the idea that it was for people who worked at “Web 2.0″ companies to talk about “Web 2.0″ type stuff. So I never actually signed up, and just followed along vicariously. However, recently (after hibernating, apparently) they started things up again and the first lunch is at LinkedIn, a social networking site I’ve been playing with in the past few months. In talking to my co-workers, they mentioned how they felt a lot of pressure to accept invitations from co-workers, even ones they didn’t really care for. I can understand that, especially if they’re current co-workers. That having been said, I’m trying to only accept invites from people that I interact(ed) with reasonably often.
So without really thinking about it, I posted to the Lunch 2.0 blog saying I’d be there. After I did it though, I (erroneously) posted again, saying I probably wouldn’t because of my impression of the “rules”. But Terry quickly set me straight about how things worked. Hopefully this will encourage more lurkers to show up at these events.
So I started playing with office 2007 today. Outlook is pretty interesting. Now I’m playing with Word, which has blog editing support, and groks Wordpress. I’m scared. We’ll see how well this works.
Just noticed this. Work has been really busy lately.
I’m coming off a couple of rough weeks as I was trying to push out a new product. It’s pretty cool, does some firewalling, some network forensics, and usage control stuff. I like it.
Anyway, Erik recently mentioned how weird his current situation is. Believe me, I know how it is. I first started working here as a contractor, spending 75% of my time in the Bay Area and the other 25% back in DC. I had a hard time coming to grips with the fact that this was a real job and not some weird trip to Work Fantasy Island or something.
Continue reading ‘On Moving for a New Job’
2004 is here, and the workload shows no sign of stopping. If I didn’t enjoy my job I’m not sure what I’d do. But another piece of good news is that my group is increasing by 50%! Erik will add much web-fu, which will help us immensely in our fight to triumph over Evil(tm). (And by triumphing over Evil, I mean putting together web-based user-interfaces and thinking up apps and other cool stuff)
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I’m sick, at least somewhat, possibly early stages of the flu. I generally go through the holidays at least 20-30% sick, anyway. (constant sniffles, I should own stock in whomever makes Puffs) In an odd twist, I’ve found that I can be more productive at home. (to a limited degree, sometimes I have to do stuff with hardware that’s at work and you must be in front of it) This is not something I expected since I normally slack all to hell if I’m not feeling direct pressure to get things done. VPNs are cool.
My second pass at a startup is much better than my first, but it’s taking its toll…
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