As a part of my quest for the most potent and unified personal brand, I’ve started using Luke.Hoersten.org for my personal website and Luke@Hoersten.org for my email address. All of my alternate email addresses resolve to one account. I’ve also set up the Hoersten.org domain name with Google Apps which is basically a private GMail [...]
All through university, the question of “where do I want to work” has been looming over me and I’ve always had a stock response in the back of my mind. The stock response enabled me not to worry about job searching too much. When the time came to truly get a job, though, I realized [...]
Miguel de Icaza, founder of Ximian and now lead Novell developer recently posted about Microsoft’s partnership with Novell. Specifically, Moonlight, Novell’s free implementation of Microsoft’s Silverlight is now the official Linux version, sanctioned by Microsoft. Microsoft will give Novell access to the test suites for Silverlight to ensure that we have a compatible specification. The [...]
Google has been acquiring businesses like mad almost since their birth. Similar companies acquire about 4.7 businesses or products per year while Google is in the staggering range of 6.4 businesses per year. Each point being in the order of about a half million to a billion dollars, 2 points-a-year more is huge. Of course, [...]
It looks like Dell isn’t done with Microsoft yet. They’ve joined the Novell/Microsoft alliance, giving it “industry” validity. I don’t know how much I like this and it’s hard to say were the future of operating systems is going. Microsoft’s got their foot in the door with the Novell alliance but now that a big [...]