Celebrate those rare occasions when you think you made arrangements that must have been a mistake and then realize there was sound logic behind them--fortunately before changing them.

Great piece. I love Pat and did some work for him but in hindsight maybe he was too nice given bad hands. I really hope Tan can turn things around.

After wasting way too much time on looking at and fiddling with different templates for a separate analyst blog, following the lead of various friends and just roll personal and business together. bitmason.blogspot.com/

Free Lessons from Itanium ebook open.substack.com/pub/ghaff/…

AI has characteristics in common with cloud. Even if you were sold on cloud becoming a big deal, a lot of the details that many accepted ended up being basically wrong. I've posted my thoughts on some of the aspects of AI where surprises might lurk . bitmasonsllc.blogspot.com/20…

I’ll be in temporary housing for a while.

A practice I've run into recently that I'm not fond of is confirming purchase of tickets to a show but not actually emailing you the tickets until maybe a couple of days prior. I can imagine *some* logic but I don't love having those kinds of loose ends when traveling.

I would love to be seeing the internal Red Hat message boards around UNC right now :-)

Putting together first conference presentation in a while. Doesn't help that my archives are sort of a mess as I had to export my RH stuff at one point but haven't really figured out how to best use.

I am really ready for a vacation (and also RedMonk) break. I've basically been a general contractor all summer and I'm tired/done.

Already planni g events next March/April. Didn't think this was supposed to be the case when you (semi-)retired.

Sad to see Ed deCastro passed away. I had a good career at Data General.

How many phone calls do you suppose went out over the weekend to the effect of "You oppose--nay, don't enthusiastically support--this candidacy and you are dead to this party for all time"?