Sometimes I think about Google’s mapping and imaging “products” like Google Earth and Google Street View and wonder how exactly they relate to a search engine. Then I’ll spend more time using them and wonder again at their coolness. Here are tools made freely available which blow away any of the top-secret wizardry I used when I was a Navy spook. This technology is in a class by itself.
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March 12, 2008
UCLUG talk on Zenoss
The talk last night at UCLUG about Zenoss went well, with the exception of finding the place a little after the meeting had already started. Fortunately I was the second act, so nobody noticed.
I was fired up about speaking and it showed. I was funny and engaging and improvised a few clever wisecracks here and there. It didn’t hurt that there was a familiar face in the crowd: my former Raritan coworker Wes Yates, a wisecracker himself.
I’ve got to find more speaking gigs, or join one of the Toastmasters groups here. Speaking to groups (and especially interacting with them) is a heck of a lot of fun.