The burdens of innovation

Having just come back from ApacheCon, my brain feels "full". "Full" like your belly after Thanksgiving dinner except instead of blood rushing to your belly to digest my food, blood is rushing to my brain to digest the delicious meal I had. I had high expectations for ApacheCon. I can say that they were met and the some.

At this point, I'm at a loss as to what we should be doing next. (There's too much to do!) Add to the laundry list of fixes and user improvements on our list... pages of innovations that (after seeing the amazing things they can do ) we HAVE to implement. We have thousands of documents in a repository. We HAVE to implement Solr. We have disparate repositories. We HAVE to implement ManifoldCF. And so on and so on.

At least that's how I feel after seeing the presentations at ApacheCon. I feel like farmers must have felt when they saw the plow for the first time. "Are you kidding me? I can do that?"

Leaving Apache Con

Decided while I was in #YVR to pick this up again. ApacheCon 2011 was a huge success IMHO.

Using the various content indexing and crawling frameworks I expect we'll be able to see a huge performance increase for our employees. Our document repositories are a mess. Unorganized, disparate, and unused. Providing a search portal to index and serve up content is going to be a huge boon...

Thank you ASF!

The Vatican yo! or (a long hallway, nora with the globe, and me drinking a beer at the pope's house)

This place... This place... My father will cry. I almost did.. things are so intracate and painstakingly detailed it blows your mind... for rooms and rooms and rooms, on and on... They won't let you take pictues of the Sistine chapel.. I felt myself tearing up..

 

Roman eyesore...

Jim and Nora in front of the local eyesore. It blocks the view of most of the city. We really need to ask a third party to take our picture! 

So many cats!

These ruins are in the middle of the city. There are approximately 600 cats that live here...the city takes care of them...feeds them...gives them shots...etc. It is awesome!
 

no big deal

just a Panzershrek on the wall (Please make fun of the spellling) 

The truth

So far we have been getting arround pretty well due to my gift of direction and poise... unfourtuanely, I think this may be how Nora sees me..... 

So sad

Nora has found someone else. and is leaving me for him... I am trying to be happy for them...
Here is a photo of the two of them together..... In love.... forever 

More San Clemente

 

For my Dad

San Clemente
A church built on a church, built on a Pagan temple?
its crazy! They reused some of artifacts when they took over the spot! goes down deep into the earth, where there is a underground spring..
(they wouldn't let us take pictures underground) 

I need a haircut

This is near the Coliseum.. Il Foro I think it is called.. IT's so big! 

me, not so cute

 

still cute...

 

so cute

I love my wife...... 

Nora being cute on the Spanish steps

We took the bus to get there and were really unimpressed by them.. just some steps, but the view!!!!
(if some guy tries to tie string arround your finger tell him to buzz off!)
Nora plans on making fun of me forever for getting suckered
(I knew< href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3744/1172/1024/CIMG3091.jpg"> 

How considerate

They are working on this monument (scafolding and the like) but were nice enough to put up a canvas with an image of the monument on the outside. The people here!
that isn't sarcasm, for the most part even though we don't speak Italian, people have been so kind and helpful to us. We do make a pitiful effort, which I know goes a long way with some people. but none-the-less, our new pipe dream is to live here.

My theory is that since it is so beautiful< href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3744/1172/1024/CIMG3102.jpg"> 

For Corey

They deliver here man!
call them up!
 

it's like, old..........

 

Nora the Destoyah!

Witness her power!

(and the sheer tinyness of her car!)