This evening, I met up with Dion, Christian and Bruce at the Rock Bottom Brewery.  Topics discussed: OSCON, JavaOne, WebSphere, AOP, JBoss, Geronimo, Spring, Struts, SourceBeat, OpenLogic, TSS, ThoughtWorks, Ant, Maven, Digital Globe (of course), staying up late, getting up early and writing.  Good stuff - thanks gents.

                        
            
            
                     
            
            
            
                                
                        
                    
            Because I didn't have a DVI Video card for my Windows or Linux boxes, I've been working all week on my PowerBook with my new kick-ass 23" monitor.  I'm in love.  
It's actually changed my whole perspective.  The whole machine actually seems faster.  I can see so much fricken' stuff on the screen that I never close anything anymore.  The bad part?  Now that I'm enjoying OS X so much, I can tell I'm going to have to buy a dual G5.  Probably not this year (I have to pay off my monitor loan first), but it's definitely in my future.