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I'm active on other sites too. Below are my latest thirty "tweets" and links and photos from around the web.

• Tweet @ 02:46PM Feb 06, 2010
  

  Seven "Corporations of Interest" in Selling Surveillance Tools to China http://ff.im/-fvIjJ

• Tweet @ 08:40AM Feb 05, 2010
  

  great fun this week working on a proposal for a new OSLC core spec and ignoring all else. can't wait to start sharing it more widely

• Tweet @ 08:10AM Feb 05, 2010
  

  Facebook’s Project Titan: A Full Featured Webmail Product http://ff.im/-frrfB

• Tweet @ 07:26AM Feb 05, 2010
  

  Using IBM Mashup Center to build interoperable Web 2.0 applications with OpenSocial gadgets http://ff.im/-frjwm

• Tweet @ 07:26AM Feb 05, 2010
  

  Google's two-way search is good for the web http://ff.im/-frjna

• Tweet @ 01:17PM Feb 03, 2010
  

  the boys are so snow bored that they are actually shoveling the driveway. amazing

• Tweet @ 02:34PM Feb 02, 2010
  

  Oracle shuts down Project Kenai http://ff.im/-fhtDM

• Tweet @ 09:35AM Feb 01, 2010
  

  wrote a spec over the weekend, timidly sharing it now with a select few

• Tweet @ 08:53AM Feb 01, 2010
  

  it looks like another day of sneak-in-the-golf-course sledding for the boys

• Tweet @ 08:32AM Jan 30, 2010
  

  going out to do a little sledding with the boys (they've been out for over an hour now) #fb

• Tweet @ 06:48AM Jan 29, 2010
  

  @carlfish yes the policy is reasonable, but I prefer the "This space is accessible to any Sun employee to write about anything" policy

• Tweet @ 10:42PM Jan 28, 2010
  

  Assimilation begins...Oracle Censors Blogs.Sun.Com http://ff.im/-f1Oub

• Tweet @ 08:46PM Jan 28, 2010
  

  The Oracle Social Media Participation Policy http://ff.im/-f1xkr

• Tweet @ 07:03AM Jan 28, 2010
  

  Is the iPad the harbinger of doom for personal computing? http://ff.im/-eZdxo

• Tweet @ 07:30AM Jan 27, 2010
  

  Beatles infographics http://ff.im/-eVvhX

• Tweet @ 05:56PM Jan 26, 2010
  

  kids are on an Ogre and GEV kick again http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogre_(game) #fb

• Tweet @ 07:43AM Jan 25, 2010
  

  very busy but fun week ahead. hoping that result will be fodder for a good paper for WS-REST 2010 http://www.ws-rest.org #in #fb

• Tweet @ 08:49AM Jan 24, 2010
  

  RT @chrismessina: Movement to amend the US Constitution to abolish corporate personhood, and that $ != speech: http://movetoamend.org /v ...

• Tweet @ 11:24AM Jan 23, 2010
  

  Stonebraker, DeWitt, et al. compare MapReduce to DBMS http://ff.im/-eIwIn

• Tweet @ 12:12PM Jan 22, 2010
  

  job has become very interesting and very busy as you can see from my tweet volume. loving it! one year ago today: http://bit.ly/87DALQ #fb

• Link @ 02:32PM Oct 07, 2009
  

  The Reg says "Sun's annual JavaOne is finished"
  sad news if true

• Link @ 07:55AM Oct 07, 2009
  

  Lotus iNotes: Gartner says "this is trouble for Google"
  "iNotes, which is based on IBM's acquisition of a Hong...

• Blog @ 08:19AM Oct 06, 2009
  

  Title: Upcoming gigs: ApacheCon and Enterprise 2.0

• Link @ 10:42AM Oct 04, 2009
  

  Right on Red Hat!
  "Red Hat tells the Supreme Court that software patents...

• Link @ 10:15AM Oct 04, 2009
  

  Away we go, slowly - insightful essay on life/movie review from my bro @filmbabble
  "When we're kids, we have a concept of what it means to...

• Link @ 08:47AM Oct 04, 2009
  

  Dilbert on Twitter
  

• Link @ 09:47AM Oct 03, 2009
  

  JCP death spiral or "normal for a maturing language"
  "Oracle could choose to reinvigorate the JCP, with...

• Link @ 09:37AM Oct 03, 2009
  

  creating/playing Little Big Planet games seems to have replaced all other forms of gaming fun 'round here lately
  LittleBigPlanet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

• Link @ 09:22AM Oct 03, 2009
  

  Remembering Bono's crazy antics at Kenan stadium in 1983 #fb
  "U2 1983 War Tour Chapel Hill, NC, Kenan Stadium –...

• Link @ 09:06AM Oct 03, 2009
  

  U2 tour: 189 trucks, 500 roadies, 70,000 air miles and 65,000 tons of carbon emissions
  "U2 gets green to offset huge carbon footprint of its...