We saw Ying xiong (aka "Hero") Saturday night. This is a beautiful movie. It's a shame that Hollywood can't make this kind of tragedy anymore because most american moviegoers want only feel-good endings. It was even complete with the equivalent of a Greek Chorus in the king's advisors. The style is reminiscent of Wo hu cang long (aka "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon"), but it lacks some of the comedic touch that gives so much life to Crouching Tiger in spite of the tragic overtones.
Watch the cinematography carefully. Each of the flashback sequences features a different predominant color distinguishing the theme of the flashback: red (passion), blue (love), green (youth), white (truth), and black (death).
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My Current Reading List
Robert Jordan: Knife of Dreams (The Wheel of Time, Book 11)
I'm almost embarrassed to admit that I'm still reading Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series. When he passed L. Ron Hubbard’s Battlefield Earth decology I could have cried. Maybe WoT will be made into the worst movie of all time? Still, I've been following the saga of Rand al'Thor for more than a decade now, and I want to see how it ends. Rumor is that the next book, Memory of Light, will in fact conclude the saga. To borrow a phrase, "There should have been only one." (**)Neal Stephenson: Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1)
My family got me Quicksilver for Christmas. I'm not far into it, but it's clearly a Stephenson book: lots of historical connections, multiple timeline unfolding simultaneously, meticulous historical detail, 100 pages in the plot is still a total mystery, big "thud"factor... Should be a great read.Chris DiBona: Open Sources 2.0
Anything edited by Chris DiBona is worth spending the time to read.David Kahn: The Codebreakers : The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet
I'm just getting started with this one, but so far it's a fascinating account of the history of cryptology. It's a massive 1200 pages, so it may be a while before I move on to something else.
My Events
You can find me at these upcoming events- 2010-07-21 to 2010-07-22 OSCON.
I'll be at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON) on Wednesday and Thursday. SugarCRM engineer John Mertic is speaking at OSCON. - 2010-07-28 AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford.
Jeff Kaplan of THINKstrategies is moderating a panel session at the AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford including Marten Mickos, Swayne Hill, Treb Ryan, Lars Buytaert, and me. I'm looking forward to a great discussion. - 2010-09-27 to 2010-09-29 Paris Open Source ThinkTank.
Olliance Open Source ThinkTanks are always great events, and I'll thrilled to be at the Paris event again this year. - 2010-09-30 to 2010-10-01 Open World Forum.
I am speaking at the Open World Forum (OWF) in Paris on Oct 1, 2010. I am also a judge in the OWF Open Innovation Demo Cup. Be sure to submit your project before July 31 for consideration. - 2010-10-05 London CRM Acceleration.
SugarCRM will hold a CRM Acceleration in London on October 5, 2010. - 2010-10-21 Munich CRM Acceleration.
SugarCRM will hold a CRM Acceleration in Munich on October 21, 2010. - 2010-10-25 Cap Gemini Open Your Mind.
I'm speaking in the Netherlands at Open Your Mind, an event sponsored by Cap Gemini on Open Source.
(Some of) My Favorite People
- Chris DiBona
Chris is a just plain great person and stand-up guy. He's also the Open Source program manager at Google. - Doc Searls
Doc is the senior editor at Linux Journal and one of the four authors of The Cluetrain Manifesto, the iconoclastic web site that became the best-selling book. - Matt Asay
Matt is the founder of OSBC, and currently runs business development at Alfresco. - r0ml Lefkowitz
The r0ml is one of the most entertaining and insightful commentators on the state of the IT industry that I know. - Stephen Walli
I first met Stephen when he worked at Microsoft, and I organized a dinner at OSCON between Eric Raymond and a number of the Microsoft Shared Source team. I liked him even then so that should tell you a lot.
Recent Posts
- RT @sugarcrm_uki: Sales Forecasts: How
- What is this, pile on
- RT @jmertic:A Day many thought
- @kred @klout What's next?
- Apache releases OpenOffice 3.4. @SugarCRM
- @cynergynick thanks! We've worked hard
- RT @sugarcrm: Social Business Convention
- Congratulations to @opensymbolsugar: Opensymbol wins
- Congratulations to @pgreenbe named one
- @ekolsky study: Social customer service
My Companies
I am involved with these companies as an investor and board member.- Appcelerator
Open Source platform that provides everything you need to build rich web, mobile and desktop applications. News - DotNetNuke
Open Source framework for building websites and web applications on Microsoft ASP.NET. News - SugarCRM
Open Source Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software. I have been a board member and investor at SugarCRM since 2005 and CEO there since May 2009. News
My Investments
I am an investor in and/or advisor to these companies.- Dasient
Dasient is an an early-stage company that is solving next-generation security problems for the Internet. News - DeviceVM
Embedded instant-on operating system for consumer devices. News - Eloqua
On-line lead generation and marketing automation. News - Fonality
Open Source VoIP PBX based on Asterisk. News - Funambol
Funambol's vision is to make push email and mobile content/PIM sync easy between the largest number of smart & feature phones, the Internet cloud and popular desktop apps. News - Medsphere
Open Source Electronic Health Record (EHR). News - MuleSource
Mule is then world's most widely-used Open Source ESB and integration platform. News - Novara Clinical Research
Novara Clinical Research operates dedicated facilities for conducting Phase II to Phase IV patient studies for the pharmaceutical industry. News - Pentaho
Open Source Business Intelligence (BI). News - VirtualLogix
Real-time virtualization for mobile devices. News - Vyatta
Open Source router and firewall. News - WSO2
Next generation Open Source Web services platform. News
My Exits
These are companies that I was previously involved with as a Board member or investor. (Successful "exits" in venture investing parlance.)- JBoss
JBoss was acquired by Red Hat Software (NYSE: RHT) for $420 million. News - Ohloh
Ohloh was acquired by GeekNet (NASDAQ: LNUX). News - GeekNet/SourceForge/VA Linux
The parent company of Slashdot and SourceForge. VA Linux (now GeekNet)(NASDAQ: LNUX) went public in December 1999 with the largest first day gain ever in an IPO. News - Hyperic
Hyperic was acquired by SpringSource (now VMWare) (NYSE: VMW). News - SpringSource
SpringSource was acquired by VMWare (NYSE: VMW) for $362M. News - UBmatrix
UBmatrix was acquired by EDGARonline (NASDAQ: EDGR). News - XenSource
XenSource was acquired by Citrix (NASDAQ: CTXS) for $500M. News
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