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Throwing It Down Old School

The deal hasn't even closed yet and Oracle is already picking a fight with IBM. You gotta love Larry Ellison's competitive spirit. I miss the good old days of the technology industry when this was a semi-regular occurance and the one upsmanship was carried out publicly by most companies in the Valley. Ever since Google decided to take the koombaya approach and Internet started going social, startups have lost their taste for a good, old fashioned flame war. The last friendly fight I remember being waged was between Microsoft's Internet Explorer team and Netscape. That was 1997. Maybe I need to start trolling around the newgroups (Google Groups) again to see nerds go at it with their holy wars and watch Linus represent.

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September 14, 2009 | Comments Off |

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About Me: I find it weird that a lot of profiles are written in the third person. I over-punctuate my sentences with semi-colons; I still practice my handwriting to keep it pretty. I love whatever that Vimeo logo font is. I run about as fast as a pregnant woman and I swim like this guy. Pretty sad if you ask me. I wish I was good at Mario Kart because I think that is as close to driving a car as I am going to get. I suck at a lot of things but I know I'm really good at one thing. I can make your computer do anything. During the day I Clark Kent it as Lead Developer for Squarespace. This is me eating our own dog food. Some of the new stuff I'm cooking up might sneak preview it's way out on this blog while Anthony is not looking. I spent 15 minutes ripping off Rik Catlow 's minimalist blog design because it would have taken me much longer to rip Tyler off. I hate punditry but I wish I had more time to write about stuff I'm relatively intelligent about. I love the Internet. I like sunsets and long, romantic walks through code. One last thing — I love you, man, but I don't give a shit what you think. Ok, I'm just kidding about that. Sharing is caring.