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Now that my semester is over at MIT, I’ve had time to post several essays I’ve worked on over the last 6 months:

#5. The Impact of Blogging
#4. Web 2.0: Hype, Reality, or the Future?
#3. The Missing Piece of the Open Source Puzzle
#2. The Ongoing Search for Silver Bullets
#1. The Web Desktop - Replacing Windows, Linux, […]

I’ve added some of the presentations I’ve given while at MIT to my public speaking page:

LDAP Overview was suppose to be a 30 minute presentation that turned into 2 hours of Q/A when I presented it to my Web Systems Architecture class last spring.
Exersit is a product concept that a few classmates and […]

I don’t normally do this, but recently I had a customer service experience so bad that it warrants a little public outcry. If anything, maybe someone searching on cingular sucks or suncom sucks in the future will see this entry near the top of the list.
My wife and I had been loyal AT&T Wireless/Cingular […]

I’m pleased to announce the general availability of the first book on Microsoft’s new command shell (MSH), codenamed Monad. Microsoft’s Andy Oakley is the author. I was the technical editor and found Andy to be a pleasure to work with. This is the most excited I’ve been about a new book in […]