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It was cool today at work, Tim O'Reilly stopped by to visit us, it was fun chatting with him again. he was at next jump offices about the same time last year, he is in town for the web2.0 conference.

he has had this notion for a while now that the internet is an operating system, and there are all these subsystems. he thinks google is starting to act the way microsoft used to, by building all these subsystems that interoperate only with other google subsystems to build power applications. the latest example: turn by turn navigation systems, potentially putting out of business a couple of the big companies in that space.

he talked about a few other things. he is a good speaker, very much enjoyed seeing him.

still feeling a bit under the weather, trying to get some rest. got home a bit ago. time for dinner soon. cool today, under 50 for most of the day.

noticed twitter is trying to get some control over the retweets, they posted something in their interface to make it easier. kind of funny that they have to be so careful with their audience, it's very easy to alienate them.

nate and ann visiting, they got here yesterday evening. nate is looking at apartments today and tomorrow.

we went to patsy's for dinner, got pizzas. then stayed home at night, it was damp and rainy out. watched surrogates, it was just ok, watchable but nothing amazing.

Enough said about this on previous postings. I wonder if Apple is ever going to attach a real db behind the software so it can really perform when handling large amounts of files. Parsing and re-saving an enormous XML file every time you change anything about any song is a real pain, as well as searching, etc. A real database would handle hundres of thousands or millions of songs without a problem.

I don't even have that many songs on mine and it chokes here and there