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David McCusker: "If you don't tell folks what to talk about by stirring them up with nuisance provocation, then they might start talking about something which impedes your plans." This afternoon I was glad to get some pushback from Microsoft re Hailstorm. It's been pretty quiet. I'm still sick as a dog, sleeping and reading, but I forced myself to go out and buy some more books. I'm going through the whole history of Kurt Vonnegut. I just finished Jailbird. Next I'm going to re-read Sirens of Titan, which is one of my favorite books ever. Also bought a Douglas Coupland book, and before Jailbird I read Anne Tyler's latest. In the meantime my team is shipping Frontier 7. I'm kicking back and letting them do it all. This is unusual, but they're good, and I'm sure it'll be fine. Looks like Doc sold his house in Emerald Hills. Bravo! I'm still in awe of Sjoerd. "Frontier fits me like a glove. I think the nicest thing is that there's a built-in database, with a scripting language that let's you access it like in-memory data. No tiresome query building to retrieve or store data." It's been a long time since someone like Sjoerd has come along, so ready for what we do. He's right, if there's a single thing that makes building apps in Frontier special, it's the ease with which you can program databases. That innovation is already a dozen years old, and has yet to show up in any other programming environment, as far as I know. On this day last year I learned that one of my teachers had died. Death is around a lot these days. I have a feeling that once you reach my age, 46, from here-on-out, death is going to be around, until I myself die. On Friday the younger brother of one of my best friends died suddenly. How do you process this? What's the take-away? I know the answer, it's not hard to find -- make the most of the time you have. Every day you're alive is a day to celebrate. I'm still here! And get on with it. I object when people say Just Wait. No, I'm not a member of that church. There's no time like now.
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