This morning Noel found a sliver that E had gotten in the bottom of her foot.  E was not happy about Noel trying to extract it using tweezers.  As I walked into the room Noel was trying to hold the foot and get the sliver out as E used the other foot and her hands to try and kick and claw her way out of the hold.  She definitely wasn't happy.  I jumped in to help and tried to lock down E's other appendages as best I could.  Finally Noel was able to get it out.  We let E up (she had basically been pinned down by that point) to see it and I gave her a hug and told her how brave she was.  She promptly responded in between sobs - "No I wasn't Dad" - Noel and I both smiled and then I told E that she was right, but that I was still proud of her!  Although E didn't leave laughing Noel and I did!

  I was going to post this on Twitter - but shockingly - Twitter is down - I know - haven't heard that one before.  So in light of that - I am dropping my thought on my blog - so 2007.  Dare has some good thoughts around scaling and points out rightfully so that you can find examples of many different technologies that companies have scaled successfully even when you'll have people vehemently proclaiming that there is no way that technology can scale.  Scale in many cases is simply a function of how much work you want to put into it - guaranteed that the companies that Dare cites all have done some pretty tricky flips to eek out extra performance from their foundational technologies.  In the Team Foundation Server space which I follow quite heavily Brian Harry has documented on many occasions Microsoft's efforts to scale their TFS environment to meet the demands they place on it.

As a closing note people that take extreme (or absolute) positions on technology are almost always WRONG!

See http://www.liveside.net/blogs/main/archive/2008/07/21/mac-client-for-live-mesh-review-and-download.aspx for the news!!!