I presented Blackstone to the Boston CFUG this evening, another great presentation (despite the heat and the lack of air conditioning). So, 2 countries, 17 states, 24 user groups, CFUN, lots of corporate presentations, numerous Breeze presentations, thousands of users, more hotels and flights than...
I first mentioned Blackstone gateways at CFUN, and there has been lots of interest and curiosity ever since. Sean Corfield is already building Blackstone gateways (using the alpha version of the product), and has blogged an overview of how he is using gateways to tie different systems together in a...
I presented Blackstone to the Philadelphia user group last night. Some of the attendees had attended CFUN, so I tried to alter the content slightly. This was a rather quiet (almost subdued) group, one of the attendees suggested that that was typical of Philadelphians, but I don't buy that at all....
Finally, some really important news! :-) The title for the next Harry Potter book will be "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince", no publication date has been announced yet. The movie of book 4, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", is due in theatres November 2005. See...
It looks like Microsoft is managing to settle State lawsuits one at a time. (See http://www.itworld.com/Man/2699/040629msarizona/ and more). Arizona is the 12th state to settle, and Microsoft will provide $104 million in vouchers to customer who were "overcharged" for Windows and Office in between...
Kansas City held the user group attendance lead (for this tour) for a few weeks, but Washington D.C. took the lead this evening with 100 attendees. About 1/3 of those present had attended my CFUN keynote, so I varied the presentation somewhat (different examples, additional content), answered lots...
I just presented Blackstone to CFUN. The only adjective that I think adequately describes the atmosphere in the room is "intense". I was given 40+ minutes to talk and so had to scale back the content and also talk and demo really quickly. The crowd of over 500 loved everything they saw, spontaneous...
I am still planning to take the Blackstone tour to Europe (and probably Asia too), but it won't be the week of July 12th as originally planned. The reasons for the change are: A) Summer attendance will not be as good as we'd like, B) I really need a break from this, I am now in the middle of my 5th...
I am in LAX waiting for a redeye home, having just wrapped week 4 of my user group tour. The San Francisco and Orange Country presentations both went very well, although neither group unseated Kansas City which still holds the attendance record. I'll post pictures when I am on a faster connection....
I've been using my GPRS modem all over the U.S. for several months now, with varying results (both as far as connection reliability and speed). And nowhere has it worked as well as it working today all over the greater Los Angeles area. I'd not (yet) recommend GPRS connections for the masses, but...