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August 12, 2007

c4 weirdness?

I found this image the most interesting when searching for pictures on flickr for c4:

(in case it doesn't show up, it's an image of a diff (or diff-esque, haven't looked at a diff in a while) where Vinay Venkatesh is removed, Cabel Sasser switches spots with Wil Shipley, and Fake Steve Jobs moves to Sunday. Also, looks like Allan Odgaard replaced Vinay)

Assumably Vinay was removed due to this random post by Michael: http://www.drunkenblog.com/drunkenblog-archives/000767.html.

I was really looking forward to watching a dvd about virtualization if c4 for this year ever hits dvd (still waiting on last year's dvd Wolf!).

But the fact that Vinay was removed, and Michael was not, seems really.. strange. Michael threatened bodily harm. From talking to Vinay, he's never even talked to Michael. So eh to all that, but it would have been fair to have uninvited both parties, rather than just one party.

I got back from going out today with the wife to visit with family, come back, and then get pointed to the c4 thread on twitter. Apparently the topics that drunkenbatman brought up were.. questionable, uncomfortable, and just not fun. I wasn't there, so I don't know about it. But I do know that when I see something like this post, this post, this post, and this post, I wonder if db will be invited back next year. Added to the lack of posts for what seems like forever, other than the really chaotic posts at the end of when he was posting, and the one about Vinay, and you really start to wonder if db is relevant within the mac community at this point. I'm not saying that I'm relevant or not relevant, but I'm also not running a panel at a cool mac conference (although I tried to do a bit about Trac last year and got bumped for Hillegass (and was happier for it)).

It's just weird. The whole thing with DB vs. Vinay was handled strangely, the return of DB is strange without him posting relevant stuff (I'm talking about things like interviews) recently, and things like that. I hope he gets back into the mood to start writing interesting posts again, I enjoyed them, and enjoyed talking to him about random things via IM, but in the end I had to spend the money on something else, and I'm enjoying that quite a bit.

Update: Apparently someone did talk about vm tech, a Shawn Morel. Here is the post by Alex Payne about it: http://www.al3x.net/2007/08/c41-vmware-fusion-internals.html