Yesterday I went to buy a car. For once quite a nice sales guy. We have a test drive and he does his little presentation about various features then we go back to his desk to work out a deal. He starts prodding the keyboard on his PC trying to log into some archaic mainframe [...]

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I worked on Michael’s team way back at the begining of time, circa 1995. We were building a voice mail system for Octel (now Avaya, via Lucent). It was built on Microsoft NT and used Exchange as its Directory and Message store. [...]

Too damn busy to blog.
Given that complexity and change are the only constant in my life… I’ve decided to switch from declaring my plans to reporting what’s happened. My last declared plan was for a move to London to start on a new venture, but what actually happened was a move back to California.
Plus [...]