What’s on a mobile CTO’s desktop?

James — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:39:02 +0000

Along the lines of ”how to [..] feed your CTO“, and “N things you didn’t know about blogger X“, I was staring at my cluttered desktop, wondering what it all means.

Featuring…

A variety of development tools (Eclipse, Visual Studio, MySQL, Wireshark, FTP, SCP, JMeter scripts, a JSON parser)
The Android SDK
Portions of a mobile web book I am writing
Slideware for various products & projects
Domain analysis results
An Ubuntu ISO image and an Apache install
An OPML file of mobile blogs
My registration form for MWC
A JPG helpfully named “graph”
A bunch of browsers
The hiring plan for my team
MetaWeb Query Language documentation
Mobile Monday Dublin’s Peer Awards application forms
Two mysterious text files called “yes” and “no” (?!)
Some social network clients
Something to listen to
Armadillo Run
…and a folder named “temp” – where all this rubbish is shortly headed.

Yes, that pretty much sums up the last 3 months of my life. What’s on your desktop – and why?

Russian dance music

James — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 09:41:06 +0000

There seems to have been a revolution in Russian music over the last 12 months. House and deep house in particular – genres that have traditionally been strong in the UK, Germany and Holland.

Does it seem odd to think of Russians as composers of dance music? Not particularly… Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky and Prokofiev anyone?

Also composers of world-class dance music … and interestingly too, composers from a period following one dominated by Germanic influence.

James Pearce » Music

What’s on a mobile CTO’s desktop?

Russian dance music