Another Tailgating Season Completed

It's hard to believe that the home football season for the Hokies is over and in the books. I've never had so much fun tailgating and it's a shame the season is over. The main reason the tailgating was so great this year is the great group of friends and co-workers that come out to eat, drink their favorite beverage, play cornhole, and chat about an unimaginable number of topics. A big thanks goes out to David and Jenny Catalano. They are the ones who actually paid for the great spot and we owe them big-time. Also, a big thank you to Bill Boebel who let us use his truck all season, got up at 6:30A.M. to secure the spot, and probably paid for lots of food and drinks out of his own pocket. There are many other people that helped out with the tailgates each week and I'm sure I am going to forget someone (it's a long season, and I didn't exactly take notes) but here it goes:

Velvet, thanks for the awesome taco-dip and most importantly, putting up with me.
David and Megan Lawson, thanks for the great food, beverages, and putting up with all of us.
Gary Francis, thanks for introducing us to the great game of cornhole.
Matt, thanks for getting the food several times and bringing Velvet a birthday cake.
Mike, thanks for being a great cornhole partner and let's just agree never to wrestle again...
Brian Matthews, thanks for the great phone call at 2:30AM, sorry the girl never showed up. :)
Pat, thanks for being so supportive of our efforts and trying your best to make sure that everyone has a good time.
Jilian, thanks for being so sexy. ;)
Justina, thanks for ... well, you know. ;)
Brian Hartsock, thanks for putting up with Velvet and Justina :)
Beth, thanks for taking care of Bill.
Tammy, thanks for being a designated driver.
Vinny, thanks for being a designated driver.
Huey, thanks for calling Vinny.
Marissa, thanks for hanging out until 4:30AM (or later) twice.
Bill (again), thanks for leaving the truck running for 12 hours straight so we could listen to your great music. :)
David (again), thanks for the great wood-burner.
Totally random people, thanks for stopping by and hanging out.
Virginia Tech Police, thanks for not stopping by. :)
Hokie Football Team, thanks for winning so many games.
Everyone else, thanks for coming by and hanging out!

If I forgot about someone or something, I'm sorry in advance, and feel free to leave a comment. Me and Velvet will probably skip on the ACC Championship game, but are planning on attending the bowl game. Let us know if you are going too!

My Thoughts on Microsoft Live

Microsoft announced last Tuesday their plans for Windows Live and Office Live, you can read about it here. I sometimes like to give Microsoft a hard time, but I really don’t have anything against them. In fact, I think they are an excellent company. Anyone who doubts their ability to take over any market is forgetting what history has taught us.

Let’s take a look at some of the companies they have conquered in the past:
* Netscape (browser)
* Apple (Operating System)
* Borland (C++ Compiler)
* IBM (Operating System)
* Lotus (Spreadsheet)
* WordPerfect (Word Processor)

I think jumping into online services is a great idea for Microsoft. I think they need to do two things in order to really succeed at this strategy:

1. Integrate their services tightly with their applications
2. Develop API’s so that developers can build applications on top of these services

It sounds like they are going to do both, but I think #2 is especially important. If they provide access to a large web service API that would be a powerful move. It opens the door to a lot of possibilities for the development community out there and I think that’s important for wide-spread adoption. For those people who think they are getting into the web service game a little too late, think again. Being the first to do something has never been a part Microsoft’s strategy and I don’t think they will let their late arrival bother them this time around either.

How will this affect companies like Webmail.us? It's a good question but I don't think it will have much of an impact on what we do. Our company has been tremendously successful because we provide superior service and support, we continuously innovate our product, and we are focused on one thing - email. Our customers love us for our attention to detail, quick response times, and our passion.

If anything, I think the move by Microsoft into the web services space justifies our business model. We have known for a long time that offering software as a service makes complete sense and it's great to see that Microsoft is finally recognizing that fact too.

My Daily Routine Part II

It's been almost six weeks since Andrew's birth and I just have one word to sum up the whole experience...”WOW”. He is growing so fast (just over 9 lbs now) and he will start going to day care this week. My routine for the last 6 weeks has changed very little. I tried going to bed early and getting up really early (like 5:30am), that lasted about one week. It's just too difficult for me to become that hard core at this point. I would wake up at 5:30, do work for about 1.5 hours from home and then take a shower and head into work. What I have found works best is for me to get up at 7:00am each morning. I have been able to do that consistently for the last 3-4 weeks. If I wake up at seven I can get Jordan to school between 8:00am and 8:30am. I arrive to work shortly thereafter, work through lunch and leave the office around 5:15 to go pick up Jordan from school. I get home around 5:45 or 6:00 and eat dinner, play with kids, etc. I usually do work between 9:00pm and 11:00pm and try to get to bed before Midnight. For some reason, even if I end up staying up until 1:00am, I have no problems waking up at 7:00am when the alarm goes off.

The only part about my day that I don't like is that I have no time to workout. I'm hoping that I can find some time to get back into the gym sometime soon. At work, it seems like I sit down at my desk in the morning and before I can blink it's time to leave and get Jordan. I hate the days that I forget to pack my lunch because I don't like having to go out and get food, it's such a waste of time.

Before we had Andrew everyone asked how I was going to handle the lack of sleep. Thus far, it's been easy, Velvet handles 99% of the work. She's been great and has really made it too easy for me. She starts work this week and I have a feeling the next six weeks will be harder than the first six. So stay tuned...

My New Laptop

I finally broke down and had the company buy me a new laptop. My first laptop was a Compaq I bought in 2000, it was an awesome machine. It lasted until December 2003. Finally the hard drive died, I believe it was a 600MHZ Pentium or something. I then took Velvet's old Compaq that we bought in December 2002, it was a 950MHZ Pentium. I used it until about 3 weeks ago. It was a terrible machine. Velvet bought a Dell about a year ago that has performed reasonably well.

I'm really stubborn when it comes to getting a new computer, I try to get everything I can out of a machine until it dies. I think it comes from my poor background. Hell, I used my Commodore 64 from the 2nd grade until my junior year of high school, no joke. That computer was definitely the best computer I've ever owned, but that's a different story.

Besides the Compaq being dog slow (which I really didn't mind because I use SSH for almost everything except email), it had the following issues:

1. The battery only lasted 23 minutes before it would shut off the computer, losing all work.
2. The computer would shut off randomly if the CPU got too hot. I never figured out what made it run so hot, but I did notice that when I had the AIM window open and an advertisement ran with animation the CPU would spike to 100% and shortly thereafter the machine would shut down. Needless to say, I now have a habit of keeping AIM always minimized.
3. The monitor part of the laptop would not stay up on it's own. It would fall back when you opened it, so I had to always prop it up with two pillows. Jordan even knew to put two pillows behind it before opening it, I hope she doesn't grow up thinking that's how *all* computers work.
4. The fan was so loud that I had to turn the TV up about 4 notches to hear it. I remember whenever we would watch movies I would turn off the laptop for a better movie experience.
5. The last straw for the Compaq came when the power cord would no longer stay in socket, so it was impossible to charge. This was the second adapter I bought for it, the first had a different problem that was replaceable, this problem was impossible to fix

Now, my new Sony Vaio is great. The screen is bright, you can actually put it on your lap without worrying about 2nd degree burns, it's quiet as can be, and it's extremely fast. The power cord is a little short, but I don't really need it since the battery last about 2.5 hours (not great, but beats 23 minutes). My only complaint was the crazy amount of software pre-installed. Software? Who uses software? All of the software I actually use, I had to download:

1. Putty
2. AIM
3. Open Office
4. Firefox
5. Programmer's Notepad

Oh, wow, somebody remind me again why Microsoft exists? OK, so I still use them for a window manager, but maybe I don't need to.....

Andrew Ryan Minnick

On September 28th 2005 my second child, first son, Andrew Ryan Minnick was born. It was an awesome experience and impossible to explain in words. I would post a picture here, but blogger sucks and won't let me right now. See Velvet's blog for more pictures and more details. Everything has gone great so far, it helps that he enjoys sleeping as much as he does, hopefully everything will continue to go smoothly. Jordan loves her baby brother and has not been jealous at all, she's a good little helper. Velvet is doing good too, but I think she's getting very anxious to get back to work.

My Daily Routine

I can tell by the amount of cleaning that Velvet is doing around the house that the greatly anticipated birth of my second child is coming soon. I’m not quite sure how I am going to juggle everything but I thought documenting the daily routine before and after the birth would be an interesting exercise, so here goes the before:

My weekdays begin with the alarm going off at 7:00am sharp. Most mornings I lay there for a few minutes hoping that Velvet will jump into the shower first so I can grab an extra 15 minutes of sleep, it’s usually a 50/50 chance of that happening. Before showering, I open up the laptop, read my morning email, answer all the support questions that I can, read the blogs I follow, and check my Webmail Lite account. (All of this can be done in 15-20 minutes). After showering, shaving, and ironing; I grab a donut, pop-tart, or anything else that is quick and easy and gobble it down. Hopefully by this time Jordan is up, in a good mood, and requires only a moderate amount of teeth pulling to convince her to get dressed for school. (I won’t talk about the days that Jordan is in a BAD mood, LOL) Jordan generally has only two requests: Mickey Mouse pancakes (in a baggie so she can eat in the car on the way to school) and some chocolate milk.

Jordan’s school is only 5 minutes from work and right on the way, so it’s very convenient. I listen to my favorite sports talk show “Mike & Mike in the Morning” on the way to drop off Jordan. Jordan is generally very quiet during the ride to school, eating her pancakes and drinking her milk. But she does like to point out every school bus that she sees (and she has yet to miss one). I usually drop Jordan off at 8:30am and arrive at work shortly thereafter.

I eat lunch at my desk really quickly and try to leave the office by 6:00pm. (Although I have managed to find time to workout twice this week I would hardly consider it part of my “daily routine” at this point.) I come home (Velvet picks up Jordan from school), fix dinner (50/50 chance Velvet will handle this), read a book to Jordan, and give her bath. By this time it’s 8:00pm and I once again open the laptop, check my email, answer support questions, read my blogs, and begin working on whatever issues I didn’t quite have enough time for during “business hours”. After another 3-4 hours of working I close the laptop, grab a few late night snacks and head to bed. I usually toss and turn for 30 minutes or so thinking about servers, code, scalability, infrastructure, hiring, planning, or whatever other issues happen to be on my mind at the time. I force myself to sleep because I know 7:00am will come fast and furious.

Hopefully in a week or two I will have an update on the “routine” or lack thereof. I have a strong suspicion that this may be my last blog for awhile though.

Baseball

Baseball

As a kid growing up I had two passions, baseball and computers. I got my first Commodore 64 when I was in second grade and was hooked. I started playing baseball not long after that and if I wasn’t in front of a computer I was outside playing baseball. (A chick magnet I was not.) My favorite memories growing up all revolve around those summer days when my brother and I would spend endless hours playing toss, scrimmaging the neighborhood kids, and heading to the town park for the big game. My brother (Scott) is three years younger than I, but that never stopped him from playing with the “bigger” kids. It didn’t take long before everyone realized he had exception baseball skills; an obvious result of the early start and having to always play with kids older than him.

Little league lasts three years where I grew up and Scott was simply playing in a league of his own by year 2. He dominated on the mound as a pitcher, and was a terrific hitter as well. His third year his team went undefeated with Scott pitching every game. He pitched 3 no-hitters that season, and struck out all 15 batters (little league is only 5 innings) twice. I’ll never forget watching his games and dreaming about his potential future. Unfortunately, like so many young kids, by the time the next summer rolled around he was no longer able to pitch. Basically his arm gave out, probably a result of overwork at too young of an age. He never pitched again after those two years in little league and I’m sure the game was ever so boring to him from the outfield. Scott continued to excel at hitting, however, and was the star of his JV and Varsity teams throughout high school. He went on a played two years of ball at Bluefield State College.

Our age difference always meant we never played on the same teams. When I was in Pony League he was in Little League, when I was on Varsity, he played JV. I always wanted the chance to play with him on the same team. The last two summers I have had the opportunity to play with my little brother on the same through a local adult league. We play on Sundays and some Thursdays with little to no fan-fare. The league is a large mix of guys who either want to get back to their childhood glory days (I’m in this group) or guys who are either in college or just got out of college. Our team is pretty much the worst team in the league, but we have a lot of fun and give it our all each game. It’s good for me to get out and socialize with people outside of work and I get a good bit of exercise at the same time. But, perhaps the part I enjoy the most is being able to play alongside my kid brother.

Thursday night was our last game of the regular season. We were playing one of the better teams in the league and we were pretty desperate for a win. Mannin (our best pitcher and coach) had talked to Scott about pitching a few innings and my brother said he would give it a shot. Scott started the game and was a bit rusty to start, but by the second inning I saw the magic start to creep back into his body; the same magic that decided to leave him 15 years ago. He stood on the mound with a confidence I remembered ever so clearly. He didn’t have a great fastball, but he remembered how to pitch. He began to work hitters and even struck out a few, and before I could blink my eyes it was the end of the 5th inning and Scott had only given up 2 runs! We were winning 5-2? Could this be? Could the worse team in the league pull out the upset?

At the beginning of the 6th (our league plays 8 innings or 2.5 hours max), Mannin takes over as pitcher and Scott moves to centerfield. As we take the field I tell Scott that no matter what happens from here out he pitched one hell of a game. He looked at me and said “I gave it my all.” I said “we know”. Mannin gives up 1 run in the 6th and we are informed that the game will only last 7 innings due to time. Perfect! No way could we blow that lead with just one inning to go.

The opposing team scores one run and then puts runners on second and third with two outs. The batter hits a lazy fly ball to centerfield, a routine play by any measure, we are going to win, I’m sure of it. But then the unthinkable happens, Scott loses the ball in lights, the ball hits right in front of him as he makes a dive for it from his knees. The two runs score and we end up losing 6-5. The team was devastated and I put my brother on suicide watch. Just kidding, but it’s not far from the truth. He takes the game way to seriously, never one to joke about mistakes, even if it’s a silly rec. league game.

That’s the thing about baseball; the team that should win doesn’t always win. We were beating a better team for six and two-thirds innings. But it’s that last 1/3 of an inning that makes all the difference in the world. (I’m sure there’s a lesson about life in there somewhere.)

Before the game Thursday night I was seriously considering giving up baseball. I really don’t have the time, even though it’s only once a week. And it’s really not a lot of fun to lose almost every game. Thursday night changed my mind though; I’m definitely playing again next year. As I watch my brother on the mound I knew moments like this are what life is all about…and why would one ever give that up?

RSS Feeds or Web Feeds

We just announced our official release of our RSS Reader and a hot debate inside the company for weeks has been what to name the reader. We finally settled on the label "RSS Feeds". There were many other suggestions including "Web Feeds", "RSS Subscriptions", "My Feeds", and "My Subscriptions". I think we made a good decision but David Coursey of eWeek.com seems to disagree. Although David was not talking about our product, it was rather ironic that his article came out the same day we released our reader. I really like "RSS Feeds" because it can't be confused with any other technology. If you have heard of RSS you will "get it" right away. And if you haven't heard of RSS hopefully curiosity alone will inspire you to click on our help section and learn all about it. I'd like to hear other opinions though, so feel free to email me or leave comments!

Hackathon 1.0

I really enjoyed our first Hackathon and I want to thank everyone who participated. We accomplished a lot and the day was a big success, but the reason it was a lot of fun is because of the great people we have working for us.

Our morning breakfast started with everyone laughing at Steve for walking in like a zombie, laughing at me because of my great math skills ( 35/6 = 4 ? ), laughing at Jing for his wonderful attire, and laughing at Manny's story about his first car "tune-up" that resulted in the car catching fire.

After all the hard work, each team had to present their work to the group. The presentation were great, but also non-stop funny. Ellen cracked on Jing's shirt (again), Wenjie called Huey out for being nervous, and Huey inadvertently pulled up an email from me that show my "un-happiness", and of course Steve's love affair with Mike is a great bit of comedy.

I've worked in environments where there is a lot of hostility between co-workers. I'm glad everyone on our team gets along so well, it really makes working 10 hours on a Saturday enjoyable. I can't wait to see everyone at Hackathon 2.0!

Free Stuff

Today we released lots of free goodies! First, we officially launched Webmail Lite. And second, we launched the free code section of our website. Below is a short blurb about the code that we released, see the documentation of each utility for a full description.

MAILBOMB SMTPD POLICY DAEMON FOR POSTFIX
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This program is a Policy Daemon for Postfix MTAs version 2.1 or later. It's purpose is to identify unacceptable volumes of mail from various sources, and take action to prevent that mail from being delivered. The most common use is to limit the rate of mail that local users are allowed to send. This is especially useful to companies who provide email hosting services to a large userbase and who need to catch spammers who are abusing their system, BEFORE the unacceptable use can damage the provider's reputation.

cleanq
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This utilty searches for mail in the Postfix mail queue who's first mailq output line matches the specified pattern. The script will remove all matching emails from the mail queue, moving them to a folder - either a subdirectory of the Postfix mail queue directory called "cleanq/PATTERN" or DIRECTORY_NAME depending upon if DIRECTORY_NAME was passed to this script as the second parameter.

The most useful way to use this utility is to pass the sender's email address or domain name as the only parameter.

mq
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This utilty displays the contents of the Postfix mail queue, outputting the details for each message on a sigle line.

qv
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This utilty displays an email that is in the Postfix mail queue, coresponding to QUEUEID.

qvmv
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This utilty deletes an email that is in the Postfix mail queue, coresponding to QUEUEID.

showdb
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This utilty displays the contents of a DB_File.

Email Auto-Config
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This is the source code for a program that will automatically configure a user’s Webmail.us-hosted email account in Outlook, Netscape Mail, Thunderbird, or Eudora. It can configure a new account or adjust the configuration settings for an existing account. The Email Auto-Config tool is only for Secure POP3 accounts.

Code Reviews

Today we did code reviews on two projects codenamed "Louie" and "CD". These projects will be released in a few months but the code reviews were a big success. Code reviews are a critical part of the development process for the following reasons:

1. Everyone that participates learns something they didn't know before the review.
2. Future code is made better because we learn from our current mistakes.
3. Current code that has issues gets fixed immediately.
4. Developers work hard before a review to make sure code is commented and standards are followed.
5. Bugs are identified before the product goes to testing, saving time in the long term.

My favorite part of the review today was when Wenjie and Mike stood at the whiteboard writing out pseudo code and arguing whether each other's algorithm would work. You wouldn't know it by looking at them but these two guys are pretty strong-willed when it comes to code. I enjoyed watching them trying to explain their logic to each other, you could really see two great minds at work, it was quite the site to see and I can't wait for Wenjie to get his shot at Mike's code at our next review. :)

Webmail Lite

We are launching a new free beta application called "Webmail Lite". Webmail Lite is designed to provide business users anytime access to their email via our Webmail interface. Anyone with a POP or IMAP server can use our Webmail to view their email. We do not remove the mail from the remote servers, so don't worry about losing anything.

There are many awesome features in this application:
1. FREE
2. FREE RSS Reader
3. One-click access to all your email accounts including Gmail, Yahoo, etc.
4. Address Book entries span all your accounts.
5. Account Options span all your accounts.
6. IMAP and POP Support
7. SSL Support

Why is it called "Lite"? The application is simply an interface and since we don't host the email we cannot provide many of our superb hosted features. For instance we do not offer spam or virus protection (we leave that up to your current hosting provider), ability to filter emails to folders, the ability to have folders, mail forwarding, vacation messages, and many other features that current Webmail.us customers get with our paid service.

Please keep in mind this product is in beta right now and we would appreciate any feedback. Just sign up for a free profile and fill out the feedback form.

A note for all you gmail users, you have to enable pop in your account options before you can access gmail via our system. Yahoo users have to pay the $20 or whatever it is now for POP access.

The perfect user in my mind for this application is the small business user who runs their own POP/IMAP server but lacks a good Webmail interface. The user may use Outlook when in the office, but may lack access to their email when on the road, in a coffee shop, or even at home. Our application will give these types of users anywhere access to their email.

I'm sure there are also many people who do have Webmail access but hate the interface and speed of their current solution. I hope this application will be a lifesaver for all you who are in this situation.

"Checking My Email"

My daughter (who is three) saw me typing at my computer tonight and asked me clear as day "Daddy, what are you doing? .... Checking your email?" LOL. I about died laughing, she picks up on everything and I'm always saying "I have to check my email." She's so smart. :)

RSS Reader

We just released our final internal beta of our Webmail w/ an integrated RSS reader. We will soon be releasing it to the public, but I thought I would give a little sneak preview for all my fans..err...those people who accidentally stumble upon my blog. Although we have never offically annouced this release, thewhir.com annouced the news a bit early last month.

But here are a few features of our reader that I love...

1. It's very tightly integrated within Webmail, meaning I don't have to have two applications open all day.
2. I love Sharpreader, but I hated not being able to access my reader from home, and having the reader at home and work was just too much trouble to maintain.
3. The subscription process is very simple and fast.
4. You can access your feeds just like any other IMAP folder, meaning your RSS is available via Outlook, Thunderbird, or any other IMAP client.
5. We have a "Send to Inbox" option that will allow our POP users to enjoy our RSS reader too.
6. Administrator Options. We allow admins to turn RSS on/off per domain, and we allow them to auto-subscribe their users to a feed.

More than anything, I love how simple it will be for people who don't "get" RSS yet to use it, maybe without even knowing.

Faces & Places: Not Mitnick!

I'm not sure why I remembered this today, but in early 2004 I was interviewed by a reporter about the odd fact that the spelling of my name is so similar to Kevin Mitnick's name. I tried digging around on Google for the original post and the reporter's name but I could only find one link, and it was not the original. I'm going to republish the article below so that I won't lose it. I am especially fond of it because of the "baby-face" quote. :)

By the way, the twice a year rule is still in effect...

Faces & Places: Not Mitnick!
Sure, people do a double take when introduced to Kevin Minnick, the new VP of product development for managed security and e-mail hosting provider Excedent Technologies. That's what happens when your name is one letter off from one of the world's most notorious hackers.

"Ever since Kevin Mitnick started making headlines nine years ago, I am often asked about the close spelling of our names. This usually occurs about twice a year, but I have never seriously been mistaken for him," says the blond, baby-faced Minnick. "More than anything, my CEO gives me a hard time, but I know deep down he's glad that I'm on his side and not the other."

While Minnick, a former Honeywell software developer, works this year on improving Excedent's project delivery times and expanding specialty teams, the other Kevin -- the one who was eventually captured and imprisoned in the 1990s for computer-based crimes -- is also plying his skills on the legitimate side of the street. He's the founder of the consultancy Defensive Thinking and reportedly is working on a new book about real-life attacks, tentatively titled The Art of Intrusion.

Wanted: C++ Programmer

We are still hiring, and I'm especially interested in those of you who have experience programming in Visual Studio. Why? We want to further our integration with Outlook, Thunderbird, and other desktop clients....I'll leave it at that, stay tuned.

NCTC Software Alliance

I will be on a panel at the Software Alliance meeting this Friday (6/24). The event is going to be held at the Sigma Grill at 4:00pm. I will be discussing my "favorite development methodology." To attend, I think you just need to register.

Inbox Event

I went to the Inbox conference last week and had a really good time. This is the second time I have been to this event and both times I have had great experiences. I like hearing what the experts have to say about the challenges facing our industry. I also enjoy meeting our competitors and getting their views. It makes me feel extremely good about where we are as a company and the great opportunity that we have in front of us.

Overall I felt the conference was much smaller than last year, which is disappointing, but it's great to have an event that is focused on email.

Kevin

My daughter's laptop

Several months ago my wife and I taught Jordan (our 3 year old) the concept of IMing. We both have laptops and we put them next to each other so Jordan could see how IMing worked. She typed on one computer and knew to look on the other computer to see the result (turning on the sound helped). She was rather fascinated for around 30 seconds, I guess since she can't read yet she didn't quite understand the beauty.

The point is that email, IM, and computers in general are going to come very naturally to kids growing up these days. Jordan already knows how to move the mouse, type in Word, and turn off the computer. She also understands where CDs and DVDs go in a laptop. Her favorite thing to do with my laptop though is close the cover so that I will get the hint that it is time to play, LOL.

I'm sure when she's going off to college my current laptop won't get the job done, but it makes me wonder what will laptops look like 15 years from now. My guess is that there won't be battery cables, no network cables, and my biggest prediction of all...no operating system! The computer will simply boot up from the internet....sorry Microsoft. I'm sure we are a lot closer to Internet booting than 15 years, probably more like 5 years.

Scheduled Downtime

I saw this when logging into blogger today:

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A Bit More Scheduled Downtime
Sorry folks, we've got to bring Blogger down again at 2pm PST today, for a bit more network maintenance. It should be back up by 2:45pm. – Eric [5/13/2005 10:09:00 AM]

Scheduled Downtime
We will have 1 hour of scheduled downtime on Tuesday, May 10th at 4pm (Pacific Time), to do some database maintenance. – Eric [5/9/2005 05:11:00 PM]
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Boy oh Boy, our customer support team would kill me if I tried to do maintenance at those times...even if it was announced 4 hours ahead of time, LOL.