A few quick notes
Almost all of my attention has been focused on our upcoming move to Redmond. As I mentioned earlier, it’s easily the most complicated thing that I’ve had to organize in my life. We’re in the end game now, and it’s feeling like it might actually happen!
I’m finishing up a consulting project at Husky Injection Molding Systems. These guys create the machines that make a lot of the plastic goods that we consume – ranging from pop bottles to laundry baskets. The guys that I work with are professional robot programmers – and they’re all over Microsoft’s recent annoucement of the Microsoft Robotics Studio.
Industrial robots are optimized for performance, and aren’t particularly intelligent – it’s all about maximizing efficiency in the production of the goods. And while I didn’t do any robotics programming myself, I’m amazed by what they can accomplish given the lack of sophistication in the tools that they use to program these things. Some decent tools would go a long ways in improving the lives of robotics programmers – and perhaps Robotics Studio is a step in the right direction.
Jamie Cansdale is organizing a charity auction to raise money for a safe drinking water and irrigation project in Malawi. There’s lots of useful software that was graciously donated by various companies (and Jamie himself), so make sure you drop by his blog to take a look.
Finally, I decided to give Windows Live Writer spin, and am using it to post this blog entry. I was amazed by how seamless the setup experience was for my Typo-powered blog. I simply entered my blog’s URL, and the username and password that I use to administer my blog. It auto-configured everything else. Color me impressed.
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