This morning is another CTO Breakfast. I always enjoy the people
that I meet and the topics that we discuss. There is no specific
agenda … the conversations just flow from one meme to another, with
the occasional leap.

This morning we talked about a variety of things:

• Simulation of Systems
• Java and C#
• Simplicity, and the natural tendancy towards complexity
• Fernando Flores and his book Understanding Computers and Cognition
• There were questions about the new Tiger Mac OS
• Genealogy technologies and the issues with identity
• a huge project was described …
• working with ~500 million to ~1 billion individuals (person objects)
• differences in identity caused by multiple observers
• SuSE SLES9 based platforms
• using Oracle, written in Java
• this led to more identity conversation
• identity is given from community
• identity only exists in the context of a community

It was another fun morning … with lots of good conversation …