I was sniping at Mundie? If it came across that way, it certainly wasn't my intent. Frankly, I thought Mundie did very, very well. By the end of the day (which went on to include a small press conference), there was far more reaching out and compromise -- and stated willingness to do both -- on Mundie's side than on Michael Tieman's, which included nearly the whole audience. I didn't expect that. If there were pettiness meter on both sides of the "dialogue," Mundie's would have registered near zero.
As for my means ... well, I was just experimenting with live reporting like I've never done it before. In some ways it worked. In others it didn't. Since I was writing live to a server, I had no way to go back and clean anything up after the site got slashdotted, which was almost instantly. Hours passed before I got back up on the thing. By that time I thought it might be better just to let it be and finish working on the full report for the Linux Journal site , where most of my energy in fact was invisibly going.
Right now I'm working on that stuff right here on my lap during the first Friday morning session at the conference. Thanks to wireless, I can push the deadline envelope in space as well as time.
