http://www.rozmanith.org/musingmill Please register and leave us YOUR musings Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:17:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There's been a lot of talk among my friends about Second Life, an Internet MMORPG environment, otherwise known as SL. I've been experimenting with getting 3D geometry into SL. I've found other people trying to do it with Sketchup and Blender. The screenshot is from Blender. ... http://www.rozmanith.org/musingmill/110/revit-3d-and-second-life/ Today is the 50th anniversary of the Hungarian Uprising in 1956. It is this event that caused my parents to leave Hungary and come to the US. I'm lucky that they did. Time magazine's Man of the Year for 1956 was the Hungarian Freedom Fighter. My ... http://www.rozmanith.org/musingmill/107/events-in-1956-relevent-to-today/ Good news - Google hired me and is putting me in the Cairo office. (Just Kidding - I had to figure out a way to use that picture) No - Google has declined further interviews, and it's a good thing since I now have to concentrate on Solo Structures. ... http://www.rozmanith.org/musingmill/105/yes-even-more-on-google/ As many of you know I've been working on a startup for about a year now, and it's been a struggle with financing. Most of the angst is self-inflicted, since we are trying to raise all the funds privately and not through VCs. So to those of you ... http://www.rozmanith.org/musingmill/100/100/ When I first started the second year of my MBA program, it was looking like the most useful class (professionally) would be Financial Statement Analysis (FSA). Don't get me wrong, FSA is great. Basically, you can take a company's financial statements and dissect them in ways that they ... http://www.rozmanith.org/musingmill/98/most-useful-mba-elective-class/ I have an interview with Product Management at Google tomorrow and I came across this document while doing research. The design and development philosophy expressed in it is very similar to the one we had at Revit. No surprise such a process yields a great product. They ... http://www.rozmanith.org/musingmill/94/google-is-like-revit-is-like-google/ Although it might work technically, I think this is a bad PR move for Google, which publicly claims to have a philosphy of making money without being evil... Google labs eavesdropping software http://www.rozmanith.org/musingmill/97/strategy-and-perception/ If you think that MOG.com is as cool as I do, and you hack Ruby code, then you'll probably understand why Starfish extends Ruby (already cool) into ice-cold cool territory. http://rufy.com/starfish/doc/ It's used to make distributed programming ridiculously easy (thanks Rails!) for those of you who need to massively parallel process something. ... http://www.rozmanith.org/musingmill/90/ruby-with-starfish/ .flickr-photo { } .flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Social software in the enterprise, originally uploaded by Larsz. Another good one from Larsz. This mindmap is from the Collaborative Technologies Conference held in Boston this past June. It's a breakdown or ... http://www.rozmanith.org/musingmill/89/social-software-in-the-enterprise/ We've done a lot of different things this summer; much time on the beach sailing time in the hammock fireworks in North Carolina playing But I think the thing Steven liked the MOST was crabbing in Delaware. Food that you can hit with a hammer AND eat too? What could be better ... http://www.rozmanith.org/musingmill/85/crabbynot-us/