Pulled huge piece of liverock covered with manjano pest anemones into quarantine http://ff.im/296g 2008-11-12
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
by Brian Daniel Eisenberg
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
by Brian Daniel Eisenberg
I predict this will be the buzzworld du jour today and in the weeks/months ahead. “Everything as a Service”. Makes perfect sense to me. Cloud computing, which really started to take off when Amazon launched it’s AWS platform, is here to stay.
Today, Techcrunch broke the news that they alluded to over the weekend. Essentially, a partnership between Intel, HP, Yahoo!, and a few others to build a new cloud computing platform to allow developers and researchers to test the next generation computing model.
This is a very important development that holds promise for Infinitely Meta, and the engines that we want to build and deploy to the cloud. Our original plans were to leverage Amazon’s AWS cloud and Google’s App Engine (and related sites/services) as the deployment vehicle for our engines, but this new project may trump both Amazon and Google. Remember that we can’t yet discount Microsoft, as they are also working on building their cloud under the Mesh umbrella.
As we continue to build our prototypes, we will likely deploy our engines to whatever cloud we feel will meet our needs. Most likely we will deploy our engines across all available clouds for the highest degree of fault tolerance and redundancy.
I find it VERY interesting that the last domain I registered was http://federatedclouds.com
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
by Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Finally made it to the Adirondack Mountains. This will be the view when I wake up in the morning for the next 2.5 weeks.
I’m so happy to be here. Now if only my books and clothes would show up. All in good time.
Yesterday was a marathon of a travel day. After leaving for the airport around 9am pacific, I got on my flight after having been delayed at the gate for an hour. Then after flying to right around Cleveland, OH, they held us up to let a series of strong storms pass through the Newark & upstate New York / New England region.
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After arriving at Newark, I bolted for my connecting flight to ALB, but that was also delayed, so I’m thinking ok. I can manage that. Then the series of delays started first it was 9:35, then 10:19, then 11:30, then 12:20am. At about 10pm, I decided to bag it and rent a car. Problem is that the Continental customer service line was a mile long and I wanted nothing to do with it.
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So I bet on my social engineering skills and headed through security to baggage claim area. I went up to the Continental baggage claim desk, and pleaded my case. The woman who helped me was very kind and helpful and cancelled my flght and filed a claim for my duffle bag which should be delivered to our place about an hour north of ALB. [Fingers crossed, as I still don't have my duffle with all my clothes and more importantly, my books.]
After filing my baggage claim check, I proceeded to the Budget Car rental kiosk and picked up some kind of SUV/mini-van looking Suzuki. This is about 11:00pm Eastern. Then I hit the road heading out of Newark north on I-95 to the NY State Thruway. Well, it soon occurs to me that I’ve got no cash, change, etc, which makes paying for tolls a bit of a challenge. This happened to me twice before I finally found an ATM (after several failed attempts at other stops).
Then I head for the Palisades Parkway, connect to I-87N (NY State Thruway) for a really boring 2.5hr-ish drive in miserable weather with truckers and other weaving drivers to contend with. I started to fade out at about 2:30am so decided to call ALB my destination (rather than heading all the way to our place on the Lake). So I drive to the Cell phone waiting lot at ALB and crash out in the most uncomfortable position imaginable until I can wake up drop my rental car off and get picked up by my dad.
My wake up call comes at around 8am, drop the rental car off, and wait for my dad to come pick me up. On the way from ALB to our place on the Sacandaga Lake, we stopped to see a couple of the local rivers raging as a result of the storms they’ve seen over the past few days. Impressive stuff. Here’s what we saw:
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Now I’m pretty much operating on vapors at this point having gone to bed at 4:20am the night prior, minimal sleep on the plane, and a long night of driving. I think I’m about ready to crash out for a while and hopefully when I wake up my luggage will be here.
It’s currently raining and there are T-storms in the region. I’m 100% content. That is all.
Monday, July 21st, 2008
by Brian Daniel Eisenberg
OK. I’ve just spent the past hour or so updating my profile on Linked In summarizing the past 8 years of my professional career. It was over 2000 characters, which is the limit, so I cut and paste it into this post as well. I know I’ve probably got to clean it up a bit to polish, but please bare with me, as I dust off the cobwebs of my 8+ year tenure in the enterprise software space.
*****below is pasted from linked in profile *
8 year veteran in the enterprise software space with experience in pre-sales (Systems Engineer), Product Management, Standards & Evangelism (Standards & Technology Liaison).
Current role: Senior Systems Engineer, Business Process Management & Composite Applications. I’m one of 4 navy seal like SEs that make up the “Solution Center” team at Software AG. We are a “swat team” that can be deployed across the globe (virtually) to support pre- and post- sales activities. We support regional sales reps and SEs with the delivery of customized VMware-based demonstrations that showcase the breadth and depth of the Software AG Product Suite. My area of focus and expertise is in Business Process Management, Human Workflow, and Composite Applications. I’m fluent in most BPMS lingo, can crank out JSF-based webapps, and know enough Java to be dangerous. When I’m not building custom solutions, I’m supporting colleagues in the field and across the organization with a wide range of support duties that range from leading training sessions, generating content (whitepapers, tutorials, webexes), traveling on site to conduct on site demos / proof of concepts, online training & mentoring, remote web conferencing (webex). I also own and manage the 5 core business processes that govern what we do as a team (Solution Center).
Senior Product Manager - for about 5 years I was the product manager for an enteprise portal technology suite, first called DataChannel Server, later renamed Netegrity Interaction Server, then changed to webMethods Portal, then webMethods Access, then My webMethods Server, then webMethods Composite Application Framework. Whew. Lots of names, 3 major re-architectures, 4 major releases, countless minor releases, and god knows how many service packs, hot fixes, and feature roll-ups I’ve been through. I acted as PM for the Portal technology from roughly 2001-2006. In 2006, I transitioned out of Product Management into the Sales Organization where I currently serve as a Senior Systems Engineer.
Standards & Technology Liaison - I was originally hired by DataChannel, Inc in May of 2000 to serve in this exciting new role. I reported directly to DataChannel’s CTO Norbert Mikula, where my primary responsibilities were to participate and sit on relevant standards bodies, seek out speaking opportunities at industry conferences, and generally oversee DataChannel’s strategy with respect to leveraging emerging Web standards in our products and services. I was DataChannel’s Advisory Committee Representative to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), sat on the OASIS XML.org Advisory Committee, was co-chair and co-editor of the ebXML Technical Architecture Standard, and particiapted in some capacity to the following standards efforts: SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, SAML, webDAV, XML Schema, SSTC, RosettaNet, ebXML, BPML, BPMI, and a few others that escape me now. When DataChannel was about to be acquired by Netegrity, I realized that my role as standards guy were probably targets for elimination, so I started building demos that showcased what our portal technology could do. I did that for about 6 months and then moved into my role as product manager for Netegrity’s Portal technology initiatives, which were done under the brand “Netegrity Interaction Server” and later “PortalMinder”.
This effectively sums up the past 8 years of job experience for me. I’ve only been hired once, back on May 8, 2000, but I’ve now officially worked for four different official business entities. I’m thankful to be working (albeit indirectly now) with the same core team of Java devs for 8+ years and that is the only thing that keeps me going during challenging times.
Monday, July 21st, 2008
by Brian Daniel Eisenberg
After reading this conversation thread on Friendfeed, I started to comment, but did a quick cut and paste into this here blog post. What follows was my original comment (not posted) that I would like to expand upon here. Then I’d like to get your feedback on Friendfeed, Twitter, or whatever stream you like to post your comments to. I really could care less where you reply, just make it findable!
Regarding my use of Linked In -
“I must admit that I have a LI account, but I have not updated it in probably 6 years. I’ve been working with the same team for 8+ years, having weathered 4 M&A events and countless reorgs. I’ve come to ignore Linked In because after having gone through the first M&A event, the only time I would get Linked In email would be when friends are riffed and forced to move on to other new positions in the industry.”
*Expanding on comment here*
This became a recurring pattern after a while, where the only times I’d ever get email updates From Linked In were from people who were let go or less often just quit for other opportunities. I found myself trying to avoid accepting any of the “friend requests” or whatever their term is for adding people to your network, and I just stopped using it altogether.
I haven’t logged into my account in years and if you check out my profile, you’ll see that the last position I posted was “Senior Product Manager”, which was 2 companies and three job title’s ago.
I’m tempted to login to Linked In and update my profile, just so my stuff is accurate, but I have this recurring fear that all those people who tried to “friend” me and all of my CURRENT colleagues are going to come out of the woodwork and start picking my profile apart.
Many of my professional colleagues are not on Twitter, Friendfeed, or most of the other social networking sites I use regularly, and I’m not sure that I want them to “invade” the communities that I participate in outside of my dayjob.
I’m all for transparency, but I’m having a very hard time figuring out the right balance between personal vs my professional uses of these socnets.
What do you think? I’m very curious to hear what other people think and where I’ll find the most valuealbe advice.
Sunday, July 20th, 2008
by Brian Daniel Eisenberg
I’m in countdown to vacation mode, which requires hyper-productivity on my part. Tying up loose ends with Eastlake Associates LLC, digesting major org changes at my dayjob, and moving rather quickly with startup activity around Infinitely Meta.
I’ve finally got some talent working on my personal & corporate brand. Mad props going out to Sean Blake (aka @bluefox) who has graciously agreed to help with this effort. Here’s what he sent me after I briefed him on the idea / concepts behind Infinitely Meta. What do you think of the new logo/brand?
The possibilities are endless
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
by Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Just a quick post to bump my last one, as it’s been a while. Just got back from San Francisco after an amazing week of fun, work, and great conversation. Met a TON of GREAT new people and made a lot of new friends. Here’s a quick list of amazing things I got to do while visiting friends and meeting new ones over the past week:
That about sums it up. Tomorrow I attend a day long course by one of my true idols, Mr. Edward Tufte.
I have a crapload of stuff to do between now and next Weds, when I fly to Albany, NY and head up into the Adirondack Mountains to a little area where there is still no mobile phone coverage. There I will continue work on one of my engines. This is a VERY exciting time for me right now.
Thanks to all my new friends, followers, and supporters!
Onward & Upward.
–Brian
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
by Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Ok. I saw a little bit of this break earlier today, but I’m just now catching up. I guess the word got out that John Culberson and Tim Ryan are using Twitter, Qik, and other socnets to interact in near real time with their constituents. Now apparently, there is a growing uproar of objection to using Twitter, Qik, and other social media outlets by representatives in Congress
Aaron Brazell has a post and conversation on going on Friendfeed on this topic. We need Scoble and the rest of the crew to blast this out to make sure some attention is paid to this alarming development.
UPDATE: looks like this got micro-blogged a bit out of proportion. Just read this post and this conversation.
While we’re at it, I REALLY REALLY don’t think I can EVER EVER EVER vote for a PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES that does NOT know HOW TO USE A COMPUTER.