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Ohhhhh…  just randomly ran across this article on the Onion and HAD to post a link.   Just HAD to…

I won’t even spoil it by giving you anymore info about it.  Just go read it.  Go ahead.  I’ll wait. (If you need a clue before jumping over there, this post is tagged in my ‘Christianity’ category, and I did tell you the article’s on the Onion… )

OK, you’re back.  Loved it, I hope!  Think about that whole ‘love thy neighbor as thyself’ bit as the economy tanks and your neighbor’s worried about their job and thus their house and their credit and their ability to support their kids.  Think about the ‘love thy neighbor as yourself’ part as you go past an Angel Tree on your way to hunt down the latest toy for you or your kids.  Think about the ‘love thy neighbor as yourself’ part as you dream of Christmas bonuses and hear on the news of food pantries running low.  And if you need any other ideas, feel free to let me know.  And then hold me accountable, too, because that’s also loving your neighbor as yourself.

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In March, there’ll be a geek conference out in Santa Clara, CA called ‘EclipseCon’.  I wanna go.  Trying to figure out a sure-fire presentation that’ll get me at least the cost of the conference registration, as well as a bit of leverage with my employer to make it a slam-dunk.  Thinking, thinking, thinking.  If you have any ideas for an OSGi or Eclipse presentation you’d like to see, drop me a line.  Right now I’m thinking of things like walk-throughs on some of the R4.1 spec items like configuration administration, with demonstrations of their usefulness as well as working code.  Also thinking of analyzing the distribution and update problem: does P2 handle things or do you need to go beyond?  What other options exist?  How does one update software running in the field?  (Note that I don’t have an answer to the above yet, but am brashly confident I’d have one by the time of the conference.)  But more inspirations and ideas would be useful.