It's very rare that I post back-to-back iPod and Dogs, but that's the way of The Pod. Tim O'Reilly's closing session for the MySQL Conference held in April 2005 is a 5-star offering which prompted a number of thoughts about designing for open source and the idea of data as the new "Intel side," where owning the data is the new source of competitive advantage and vendor lock in. Here's the ITC description.
Some sites of today's dogwalk near the University of Vermont ropes course
