Monday, 8th o May 2000
Easter Morning and I got this neat hat.
Finally done some updating on this page. Got a new design. How do you like it? The logo sort of inspires an Indiana Jones adventure, don't you think? Well this is the adventure that is my life.
So what's new? Well, before I forget, let's talk about Olaia. That little girl is growing so fast. She already has a pretty big vocabulary. If you want to hear, click here papaya.altamente.com and there should be a link above that says "Olaia Talking." They are particularly cute little snipets in Real Audio that have her saying all of her animal names. She loves cows "MOOOO" and doggies "RUFF RUFF".
Today, we played in her little pool. It's so warm here, and her little face gets so red, we have to put her babe-in-suit on and let her go for a dip. We both played splishy-slash for a while. I made big bubbles with my hands and she added her little perturbations.
She also has a small plastic cup that has a hole in the bottom that powers her Pooh water mill, but she likes to take the plastic cup/barrel off and drink out of it. It's kind of funny to watch her attempt to drink it before all the water runs out the bottom.
Still lots going on with our company Altamente.com. The web page needs some work, but there are lots of other things that we've been working on. I've got all kinds of neat little Intranet applications build and pre-configured for businesses. They are all available over a web page and are build using open source tools with the Postgres SQL database. It is very robust and more than suitable for 99% of SQL database needs. We've got a collaborative calendar, contact manager, message board system, mailing list manager just to name a few. Anyway, I've been hard at work coding away on this for the past few months. This open source and Linux movement is about the most exciting thing that's ever come out of the computing industry.
I'm very excited about the future. Sure we still don't have any money, but I have more of a smile on my face recently as I see the inevitable success that lies at the end of this long hard journey. If you're looking for a good book to give you an overview of what open source world is all about and why there is so much excitement, take a look at this The Cathedral and the Bazaar. It's a geared at least adequately to the lay person and goes into the philosophy and anthropology behind what makes programmers and open source developers tick. An super interesting read!