LinuTop - A Linux-based mini computer

Now being a avid user of web based applications and not have any files on my local PC since April, this seems to be right up my alley - would love to test it! I emailed them for info and to see if they are looking for testers, hopefully they'll get back to me with some cool info on it and any possiblities as well as future availablity.

Specifications:
- AMD Geode
- 512 Mb ROM
- 256 Mb RAM
- 4x USB 2.0 ports
- audio in & out
- 100baseT Ethernet
- VGA output
- Size: 9.3 x 2.7 x 15 cm
- Weight: 280 gr
Expandability:
- USB2 , Wifi connection, Flat pannel,

I'd like to see the ROM/RAM a bit higher but it would be cool to check out in it's current state as well. See how well Zoho holds up to it and Jumpcut, Flickr and Google.


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Live on Stage!

Live on Stage!
Originally uploaded by Craig & Nicole Cmehil.

Now this is a "gig" I could really get into, last year at the Boston SAP TechEd (2000+ people I think) I did this and did not think much about it, this year I did it again at the Amsterdam SAP TechEd (2500+ people) and that was get on stage 5 minutes before the big Demo Jam event and kind of do a crowd warm up. It was a lot of fun and no one threw any rotten fruit so I guess I was OK.

Later after getting off stage I was asked to host the whole Demo Jam in Bangalore the following month (actually like 3 weeks later) so I went for it and there I found myself on stage in front of 3800 people and it was just a lot of fun!

I've done online conferences where I've spoken to groups of a few hundred and all that, and then while in Bangalore I was asked if I would come and speak at an open forum, something I've not done, so we'll see if my job takes me back over around the time for that open forum and if so maybe I will do it. It's an interesting idea when someone asks you to speak, host or present there are so many mixed emotions and strange thoughts flying around in your head it's hard to concentrate. Normally for me the stress and all that does not end until I actually walk on stage with the mic in hand and begin talking at that point I start to relax and enjoy myserlf - before hand though I stress quite a bit about everything going on and if I will forget the things I'm supposed to mention and all.

All in all though I think this is definetly something I want to keep doing and I hope they'll ask me again next year to do it maybe I'll even get chances to do other speaking type things and interacting with the crowds - it's tremendous fun and the energy the crowds have when you start to hit on the topic they all are crazy for is just amazing!

SAP Widget Foundation goes Alpha!

The SAP folks in Emerging Solutions have just started accepting requests for testers to their new Widget Foundation!

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Eis Flower

IMG_3105
Originally uploaded by Craig & Nicole Cmehil.

Awhle back I started a video blog and the plan was to fill it will interesting little videos of my "tech" adventures and conversations, as you can see there is one video of my son and one of my Office 2.0 conference adventures, and also one of a panel discussion during the Office 2.0 conference. Sadly a poor showing on my part even though each has gotten between 50 and 80 views.

Anyway I decided to do a spin on the whole thing and turn the show into "Cooking with Geeks", half the time like my little creation in the photo people look and think "huh a computer geek can do that?" Therefore my next episode will be about "Monkey Bread" and I hope to have it online soon.

Dennis Moore on Enterprise Widgets

SAP starts taking the first strides into Enterprise level Widgets. What's even cooler though is the fact that it's happening (I mean all of it) right on SDN. From the forums where they are discussing it to the blogs where they are showing them to the downloads where you can actually get them.

Very cool area to be in right now, can't wait for some of the ones we have internally to go public! I guess the biggest question will be who will be there first our fellow SDNers or SAPers?

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Smartsheet - Video Marketing hehe

Marie and the folks at Smartsheet at it again, see what happens during TechEd I miss being the first on all these things.

Now you know you want the uncensored version! Oh what a Dumb Sheet.

Meeting Thomas

Over the past several months I've been meeting more and more bloggers out there, James, was the the first in all my meetings recently and the latest has been Thomas.

I got back to Germany on the Tuesday late afternoon, Thursday morning I drove straight to Frankfurt then to Mannheim, then back to Frankfurt, then out to Dudenhofen, then over to Walldorf then back to Dudenhofen. Friday morning I went straight to Walldorf then back to Lippstadt.

While I was there in Walldorf I had short meeting with Thomas, I'd been reading his blog for awhile and had, had some email exchanges with him so finally getting to meet him in person was quite cool.

The conversation jumped into a discussion about Starships and Enterprisy and all sorts of interesting things which of course lead me to my day job and evangelising SDN, actually in this round it was more of the BPX side as Thomas is a great fit for that. One of the things I seem to be taking great pleasure in lately is the fact that no one really has that broad of an idea of everything that is going on within the realm of the Community Network here at SAP (SDN and BPX). So I think or at least I hope I got Thomas thinking of a few things going on and I look forward to hearing back from him...

Just a side note, I meet a guy on the plan named Varun who works at HP and deals with SAP BW, he was on his way to Bangalore as there team here had grown 300%. He said he would have some of his people get in touch with me after I showed him around SDN a bit.

Optimizing your Mac's work space

Nice little bit on using your screen space - this can also apply to PC as well not just the Mac.

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