I just wanted to take a few moments to wish everyone at All Programmable Planet a wonderful holiday season. I don't know about you, but it seems to me that the pace of life is speeding up all the time, and we're all having to run faster and faster just to hold things together.
So the great thing about a holiday like Christmas, or Hanukkah (the Jewish Festival of Lights), or Eid ul-Fitr (the Islamic holiday that marks the end of Ramadan), or Yule (the winter solstice celebration of the Scandinavian Norse mythology and Germanic pagans), or... the celebration of your choice... is that it gives us all the chance to slooooooowwww down a little, take a deep breath, and pause for a moment to contemplate just how lucky we are to be alive and to have our loved ones around us.
It's amazing to me that All Programmable Planet has only been up-and-running for a little over six months, because it feels like we've all been together for much longer. I really enjoy our weekly live chat sessions and reading everyone's blogs and comments. More importantly, I've made some good friends here. I cannot wait to see what the New Year will bring. Until then, happy holidays!
Max Maxfield 1/30/2013 10:10:06 AM User Rank Blogger
Re: Season’s greetings
@Hash: Wow, it's a funny old world. Just yesterday I was invited to give a session keynote at the forthcoming Embedded World 2013 conference in Nuremberg, Germany. Sad to relate, they wanted me to pay my own expenses (air, hotel, etc.) so I had to regretfully decline (call me "old fashioned" if you will, but I think it's a bit silly to essentially have to pay to give a speach :-)
hash.era 1/30/2013 10:00:56 AM User Rank Clever Clogs
Re: Season’s greetings
Yes Max now its open. Can you mail me the topics you are fam,iliar in delivering speeches so I can forward it to Moratuwa Uni and try something out. Mail to harshana.era@gmail.com
Max Maxfield 1/25/2013 11:51:13 AM User Rank Blogger
Re: Season’s greetings
@hash.era: Why dont you make your next holiday destination to Sri Lanka?
I must admit that Sri Lanka is somewhere I have always wanted to visit. The science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke used to live there and he always sang its praises.
Sad to relate I don't get many holidays these days -- but I do get to travel to give talks -- maybe you can persuade the University of Colombo to invite me to give a guest lecture :-)
But didn't Sri Lanka's government close the universities down for an indefinite period last year? Are they open again now?
hash.era 1/25/2013 12:09:57 AM User Rank Clever Clogs
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Yes same feeling here Max. Why dont you make your next holiday destination to Sri Lanka ? I will take you on a tour in SL. Im pretty sure you will like it Max
Max Maxfield 12/27/2012 1:04:26 PM User Rank Blogger
Re: Happy holidays
@Jack: You can't believe everything toy see on TV or read in the News of the World (RIP) – the Mayans got it all wrong – they forgot to carry the least-significant digit in their final calculations – I reworked the numbers for them and discovered that the end of the world actually occurs tomorrow – read my blog to discover the ghastly truth...
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