Mecworks

Wow, first it’s announced recently that MySQL will be bought by Sun and now Trolltech by Nokia. It’s pretty interesting, as I see Nokia’s primary interest in the embedded market. I wonder if this will translate into less focus on the desktop versions of the GUI tool kit.

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The January, 2008 SLLUG meeting will be held on Jan. 23 - postponed one week. It will be on small sub-notebooks, in particular the OLPC XO and the eeepc.

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The only thing good about being sick is that I get to sound like Barry White for a while. Whereas White was often affectionately referred to as “The Man with the Velvet Voice”, being sick, just makes me sound like him. It’s hard to make out with anyone while coughing up a lung.

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So, it’ll take a few weeks for me to get into the habit of consciously realizing that ’s 2008 let alone writing 2008 on any checks or other times I need to remember the date. So I’m sure you’ll understand when I say welcome to 2007 - Whoo hoooooo!!!!! Lets party like it’s 1999.

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