"incredibly intelligent, knowledgeable, softhearted, fascinating, and multi-faceted man" indeed. Steve lived here in the Triangle, on a little airstrip outside of Pittsboro. Wish I'd gotten to know him better. - Dave Johnson

Ah, the underground; visited many times when I co-op'ed here in RTP back in the early 80's. Part of the reason I enjoyed living in the triangle. - Patrick Mueller

"VW has approved a plan to build a limited number of One-Liters in 2010" - Dave Johnson

"Our local 500 pound software gorilla is building a five acre, one megawatt photovoltaic solar farm" - Dave Johnson

"Herewith some evidence, for the general tech public, that Atompub is a big deal" - Dave Johnson

"think XML, but smaller, faster, and simpler" - Dave Johnson

Interesting that the best rated Ruby-on-Rails IDE is the one that is free & opensource. Go Netbeans! - Dave Johnson

"To die on the Fourth of July [...] is or ought to be a privilege reserved for men of the stamp of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson" - Dave Johnson

"was NOT a 'kind, decent, and humble man' nor a 'great patriot'" - Dave Johnson

"a distributed, publish-subscribe service is a great way to address resiliency and loose coupling of subsystems" - Dave Johnson

"Because AtomServer is an "Atom Store", it requires a relational database to run" - huh? - Dave Johnson

"We don’t live in an OSGi only world" - Dave Johnson

"Connections also has a very flashy-looking social networking analysis tool built in." - Dave Johnson

"Well, I really think that this little experiment we call blogs.sun.com is a shining example of what can come of a company that values open communication with its customers -- and potential customers. " - Dave Johnson

Java, Java, Java Java jing-jing-jing - Dave Johnson

"We can switch to a new tech that is older and simpler than the Internal Combustion Engine - the electric horseless carriage was first created in 1830" - Dave Johnson