Eye Twitch

I first remember getting the eye twitch in college during final exams.

Its back!

I get this every time I work too hard. Its pretty annoying. It's as if I have a short circuit or something!

I suppose it is one way for my body to tell me to get more sleep :)

Panic

As if I wasn't busy enough I am now insanely busy.

What is it they say . . . "If it doesn't kill you it makes you stronger"??

I sure hope so . . .

Nothing that OCD usage of a wiki can't solve I hope.

Panic in a WIKI

We are in total brainstorm panic mode at work lately.

A very high level of thinking and learning occurring for the people I work with and me. You know that feeling. When you are full of stress because you have so much to do, but you don't really care because it is so exhilarating?

We are essentially living in our WIKI all day.

It is the most efficient way I have ever had a panic like this before.

We used WIKIs before, but it wasn't like this. The pace wasn't like this.

As an example, yesterday we had to get a slide deck together quickly. I just went into the WIKI and outlined it. And then over the course of the day the presentation magically appeared. It went through many revisions in near real time. It needs a little polish, but all the meat is there now.

If we had tried to meet about this for 1 hour, emailed it around, etc. it wouldn't have worked.

Anyway, been a WIKI fan for a while, but had no idea it could handle panic like this!

Wireless Addiction

I'm with Roger Simon sadly. The house we rented in Sunriver (and all the others apparently) had a wireless network.

I also had my Blackberry "for emergencies".

The good news is I didn't get too behind on email. That is the bad news too.

With WiFi, wireless will be everywhere. Someday soon, it will be next to impossible to "disconnect".

Roger says it well:

But I fear for our future. As information intrudes everywhere, it will become harder and harder to find peace - unless we find it in ourselves... not always an easy thing.

Although I love technology and love the "connected" world, I liked the physical boundaries that used to exist when it came to vacation.

Reorg

Huge reorg. went down at my company yesterday.

Things went well for me and the Portland office.

Reorgs cause a ton of stress. Even though it appears that I have an extremely bright future, I am totally fried. The new CIO basically took the place, shook it 11 times, and poured it out.

In all honesty, the new structure looks great on paper, but it is going to be a tough transition.

Anyway, watch this space - we will hopefully be doing a lot of hiring - I'll post opportunities here.

We will continue to work on fairly massive SOA and EDA projects and accelerating OSS adoption, contribution, and other stuff I can't talk about yet.