Getting in the mood of the season, so thought I’d post my favourite Christmas song of all time. It was always sure to bring a tear to my eye when played late on a drunken Christmas Eve, probably more so since Kirsty McColl was killed.
Probably one for after the kiddies have gone to bed though
http://www.contactmusic.com/new/home.nsf/webpages/thepoguesx12x12x05
People have been putting short messages, and even images, in their instant messenger display names for awhile now, but the last week or two is the first time I’ve seen poetry.
One of my Borland colleagues in China is obviously enjoying autumn in Shanghai as he has been waxing poetic via his IM sign-on name. Yesterday’s was my favourite:
"leaves are golden, I drive over them carefully. sky is blue, I drive under it happily" – Dali Xue
Nice one Dali, made me smile all morning.
Last week in the middle of all the stuff going on at Borcon in San Francisco, David and I snuck out late one night to a video conference room at Kinko’s to present 2 hours of Delphi 2006 to 400 developers in Seoul, Korea.
It was 2 hours of nail-biting suspense, as I was expecting the video or the audio to let us down at some point, but except for a few minutes of noise partway through, it all went very smoothly. We were up on a 200 inch screen, which is kinda scary, as I was feeling quite tired from jet-lag and usual late nights at Borcon, so the bags under my eyes must have been about a foot tall
Not sure why it still surprises me when technology works as it is meant to. Maybe this stuff may yet deliver on its promise of letting me travel less.
