I think it was a couple of weeks ago when I complained about these lame OS wars on digg. Well, my voice wasn’t heard and the wars are still going on but there are also some good articles out there comparing Vista with Leopard: Why Leopard Isn’t Better than Vista and Why Leopard Is Better than Vista for example…

Well, I still think generally spoken there is no better OS, for some users Microsoft is the way to go, for others it will be Linux or Mac.

It has been said before, personally I don’t like Microsoft systems, one of the reasons is that I can not live without having a powerful UNIX shell at my disposal… but that’s just me…

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Well this will be my second time every flying my first time fly as you can imagine was a horrific experience, it was crowded, floor seating, no food, people were shooting at us and no flight attendants. Indeed it was 1979 and communist Vietnam was invading Cambodia, but I was happy to be on that C130 American Cargo plane. There are things in your life you tend to forget in time like birth dates, old phone number, and people’s names, however you never forget your horrific escape from the clutches of the Khmer Rouge so you can understand my anxiety about flying to anywhere.

~Those who forget the struggles repeat those same struggles- Kai

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So you sit down and create a great plan for a project by planning for the obstacles and watching your time to not go over budget and time, then reality sets in. Nothing executes correctly, you end up going over budget, time, and resources. Sounds familiar? Well what it sounds like is what I have been doing the last couple of weeks you think you hit a stride and anticipate all the problems and looked for all the right signs then BAM! “your grabbing at straws” so I’m asking myself “what happen” well I call this recalibration time.

A dear friend of mine told me he was feeling off centered, so I told him about change and how it’s the only constant. Of course he already knew that because it was his idea for the quote, ha! to be honest with you I don’t even know who Heraclitus is. To be honest when I first heard of that name it sounds like a female body part. Well back to my clarity rant, every project manager, web developer, etc etc at one point has to center themselves back to being ahead of the flood gate instead of behind it. We find that place in our minds that help us remember how truly different and unique we are to this world and this place is what either drivers us or drives us insane. The easier route is the insane route and the harder route is what pushes us to grab at those precious straws we so badly want.

“It’s not the empty straws we miss, but the opportunity at the grasp we desire” - Kai

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I am looking forward to going to the Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin. So much has been going on this past week and I have yet to pack. I have been poking around on crowdvine.com and looking at the other people that are going to be at the Expo. Crowd Vine looks to be better than MyFace and oriented towards meeting people. I have never been to an Expo using such a tool in advance. It seems to make so much sense. I am interested to see how the social networking changes now that google is stepping in to the market. Will this be the end of privacy as we know it?

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Great, while I am still working on 4 posts, there is already other stuff going on I would like to talk about… I guess it is a full time job to read all the feeds about what’s going on in the world of web 2.0 every day, and it requires a second full time job to write about it.

Interesting topic, journalism, currently I am reading Keen’s “The Cult of the Amateur”, Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law at Stanford Law School wrote a great post about it in his blog.“And then it hit me: Keen is our generation’s greatest self-parodist. His book is not a criticism of the Internet. Like the article in Nature comparing Wikipedia and Britannica, the real argument of Keen’s book is that traditional media and publishing is just as bad as the worst of the Internet.”

There was also an interesting post by Nate Anderson in ars technica about the recent federal decision where Judge Henry Hurlong, Jr. said that a journalist turns out to be anyone who does journalism, and bloggers who do so have the same rights and privileges under federal law as the ‘real’ journalists.

Well, the point is, it is amazing how fast information is distributed nowadays, usually I know about something new going on in our industry within less then an hour, thanks to all the feeds that are available out there, but it is still up to me and my responsibility to make the decision whether to believe in the latest news or not, and it always was, even in times of the “old media”.

Yesterday for example there was this article in the New York Times about Walmart selling a PC for $200 with GOS as OS, optimized for Google applications, and I thought “wow, this is gonna hurt Microsoft”. So I submitted the story to digg. Five minutes later I read in Twitter the following: Went to Walmart today. No Google/Everex/Linux PCs to be found. Register biscuits totally clueless about the whole thing. Go figure. Got the point? Amazing, instant information distribution…. I love it…

Another interesting thing that happened yesterday was Google hitting the $700 mark and becoming the 5th most valuable company on the planet. I love Google, and when they where at $430 and took a loss down to $360 some of my friends said that this is the beginning of the end, I said I think they will go up to $800 - I told you so… Lets see how Maka-Maka kicks in (will write about it later today), and how the new Google-MySpace deals works out, $800 is probably not even the end… waiting for my favorite company to surpass Microsoft, currently Google’s market-cap is $219 Billion, Microsoft’s $346 Billion, so getting close… Uhm, I am not a Google groupy, or am I?

More I-told-you-so’s: VMWare is also doing great, when I said this will be huge they were at $70, now it is $122, and they are about to outperform Google…

Ok, that was in brief what struck me yesterday, now I can start to work on the articles I actually had in the queue…

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