Jun 6th was the 60th anniversary of D Day. All I ever learnt about that period in history was mostly from reading books by Stephen Ambrose. I’ve read D Day, Band of Brothers and intend to read Citizen Soldiers sometime soon. Dramatic, heart breaking, gut wrenching stuff. The history channel is currently showing the Band of Brothers mini-series which does a better job than the book. When I watched it last summer, I was moved by the sacrifices those soldiers made and in the process the tightly knit bonds they formed with one another.

Thanks to my friend Dave, I managed to get a gmail account. I’ve not used it much but I can understand why people would be impressed with it. Besides its oft advertised 1GB of storage, it offers a very clean simple webmail interface. Its aggregation of emails in a thread was pretty impressive. I can see it being useful especially when lots of emails are flying around in a thread. I suspect that other email clients will be incorporating this feature in their next release.

My Tinderbox care package arrived this week. A collection of the various presentations and materials used for the recent Tinderbox weekend in Boston. I’ve glanced through a couple of the tinderbox files on the CD and was just blown away by what people have been doing with it. Mark Bernstein’s draft provided me a short but interesting read this afternoon. I’m looking forward to the completed work.

I would give my left nut to get all that cool gear Apple has released this last weekend. Can somebody tell them to stop having so many great products?

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