Comments on: Gnomedex notes and quotes

By: Hobie Swan

Hobie Swan — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 19:25:59 +0000

Hi Julie,
A belated thanks to you for your kind comments about my presentation. I thought yours was…well, I’m sure you’ve heard it all before…much needed. It can be distressing to see how much people are willing to give up these days in exchange for fleeting notoriety. Your presentation was a welcome reminder of the sacredness of varying numbers of inner rings of our personal sanctums.

I would be happy to send you a copy of The Cancer Code. It was a real gift to be chosed by the Jetters (the Mindjet founders) to create the book for them. People say it turned out well. Just send me your mailing address (and phone for UPS) to me at hobart.swan@mindjet.com and I’ll drop a copy in the mail.

Thanks again and I hope to meet you and Ted at another event!
Hobie

By: Hobie Swan

Hobie Swan — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 19:25:50 +0000

Thanks again and I hope to meet you and Ted at another event!
Hobie

By: Tris Hussey

Tris Hussey — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 01:29:53 +0000

Hi Julie, Thought you’d like to know that the Microsoft jackets do wash up nicely! I already gooped mine (though not from my kids, oddly) and had to wash it.

By: Lucy

Lucy — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 17:26:56 +0000

Two thoughts:

(1) Microsoft is evil, from the perspective of a rather bitter non-Mac user.

(2) Man! Your pictures ruined the image I had in my head of Gnomedex as a convention full of computer-oriented dwarves. And that image really amused me last week, thinking about you addressing a room full of very very very short people. Kinda like Dorothy visiting the Munchkins. (Can you tell I watch too many children’s videos?)

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 06:36:43 +0000

Hi Julie,

I looked at Mindmanager a while back. I ended up going with Freemind. It’s cross-platform (Java based) and it works well enough for me. It’s nice to be able to take notes in it on my iBook and then just copy the file over to my desktop at work. Plus, it’s free.

http://freemind.sourceforge.net/

There are a few other alternatives, both free and commercial, listed here. http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page#Alternatives_to_using_FreeMind

By: Beth Freeman

Beth Freeman — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 23:25:18 +0000

I agree; I think the reaction was surprisingly positive, given the issues Microsoft has created for open source and internet fans. But possibly some of that goodwill comes from Microsoft being a sponsor of gnomedex. I also thought that talk was a bit overdone; seems like they are making a huge deal out of something that isn’t so huge given that this kind of integration has been happening on the Mac and on the web for a long time now (internet time, of course) and it smelled a bit like, once again MS jumps on the bandwagon much later than everyone else, and then hopes to influence direction (through custom extensions) their. My 2 cents

By: Derek K. Miller

Derek K. Miller — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 17:27:51 +0000

The Edgewater no longer allows fishing from the windows, does it? Pity. Maybe the well as part of the anniversary celebrations.

Funny your take on the Microsoft-open source tension at Gnomedex. I actually found it much less tense than I expected, but that’s because the reaction was, in relative terms, quite positive. The mistrust between Microsoft and the open source community is long-standing and, in my view, legitimate. The attitude of, “Oh yeah, well _prove it_” comes from years of seeing Microsoft use all sorts of tactics to subvert open Internet standards, and there have only been small moves, like those at Gnomedex, otherwise.

So it was much better than it could have been.