Seriously, the “big” thing about the iPhone isn’t that it’s a small form factor desktop computer. It’s not a UMPC. It’s not meant to run everything that a desktop or server OS runs. It’s meant for a new breed of applications that are light, engaging and can effectively (and efficiently) use the cloud for additional processing, routing and storage. Unlike our current desktop environments, the iPhone isn’t about having as much local as possible.

Java on the iPhone is a party that not many people care about attending.

Update: Doh. Pressing the Home key does this. It’d still be cooler to have a mouse action or a gesture to perform the scroll-to-top function.

• Rescoped a bunch of development and infrastructure work to make our sprint dates
• Met with a major two letter vendor to begin evaluation of some of their SOA products
• Met with legal council to determine our position on some IP issues
• Got some servers ordered. Yah!

• Had a very successful quarterly update meeting with our executive and strategic leadership for our SOA commercial partnership. We’re still early on, but we’re getting healthier and our teams are achieving the right velocity. Next step is to pick the next set of projects from the pipeline and spin them up in the spring.
• Reviewed the status of our enterprise password synchronization project with the steering committee. We’re in good shape and are aggressively pursuing our timelines to roll out this capability to our user base.

A good day!

The only wildcard in my setup is that I’m using Office:Mac 2008 Beta 8. I haven’t yet upgraded to the GM release, so unless there’s some weird file extension/UTI mapping going on behind the scenes as a result of the beta version of Office, I’m stumped as to what the problem would be.

• Major accomplishments of the day
• Things to remember for tomorrow
• What worked/what didn’t work

If you’d like to read along, feel free!

I have such a hard time deleting digital representations of people that I love. A couple of years after my grandmother passed away I saw her information in my address book. I was doing housekeeping and cleaning out old contacts. But how do you erase the information of someone who was so dear to you? Sounds like an insanely irrational process, since her address book entry was just a record of some data and had nothing do with why she was so special. However, it was a reminder of her. I need to think about her more often and make sure I tell my kid what a fantastic grandmother I had. If she’s not there, will I somehow forget?

It’s the same type of feeling with photos of my kids. Even though my son may have had his eyes half open or my daughter was looking at anything but the camera, it captures them in a moment time that’s completely unposed, normal and banal. But those are the moments that life is largely composed of. My own childhood has a paucity of photos, primarily because taking photos in the ’70s was a disaster compared to today. Flashbulbs that only worked once. Cartridges of crappy film. Instant camera prints that faded unless hermetically sealed. Plus, you had this extensive process of actually dropping the film off at the Fotomat and then having to remember to pick it up later. Silliness.

The flip side is that my kids will have thousands, if not tens of thousands of photos to review at some point. My only hope is that consumer-grade image recognition and processing software is introduced to facilitate more automatic and inference-based tagging, sorting and grading of photos.