Category: my life in tech

This was my first visit to a Sun Microsystems campus, when Dan Maslowski brought me on as a contractor in the summer of 2007. I flew to Colorado from London, after dropping off my daughter Rossella on her way to do her senior year of high school at Woodstock. While I was there, Sun held… Continue reading Sun Broomfield, August 2007

Held in Oakland in May, 2008. I think I went primarily to film Dan Templeton giving a workshop. You might also like: No related posts.

During my time at Sun Microsystems, I was involved in many events. Community One took place in San Francisco and was a Big Deal, including custom illustrations from Hugh MacLeod who was also at the time a Big Deal. Yes, that’s Ian Murdock, who had joined Sun a year earlier to try to Linux-ify Solaris.… Continue reading Sun Community One, 2008

Sometime in 2000 we had a fancy party to celebrate the spinoff of Roxio from Adaptec. Apparently we put on headgear to dance “YMCA.” The guy on the floor was the new CEO, Chris Gorog, whose claim to fame was that he’d produced a few little-known movies. But he was a Hollywood guy, and the… Continue reading Roxio party, 2000

IN 2000, I went to Germany to help staff the Adaptec/CeQuadrat booth at CeBit, at the time the largest tech conference in Germany (and maybe all of Europe). CeQuadrat was another small CD-recording software company that Adaptec had bought, so we had acquired a(nother) bunch of German colleagues – I don’t remember whether this happened before… Continue reading CeBit, 2000