Flying from Brussels to Reykjavik (hey, I've finally learned to spell it?). Damn economy seat on the boundary with biz class, the curtain keeps falling in front of the X61 screen. I have tons of things to do, I am behind on a lot of fronts and I know that people will nag me with "if you found time to blog, you can surely do X for me!". I know I know, the only excuse I have is that since the beginning of the month I am literally going from a flight to an auditorium to another flight (at least I didn't change currency for the first 3 countries :-)). I don't feel especially intelligent this night (not that usually I feel particularly gifted, mind you), so I won't hurdle myself in a code sample post (I have few in the buffer) or a " cheap philosopher " one (ditto): instead, I'll do a bit of story telling about our much discussed book . First of all, this thing is giving us big satisfactions even before being on the shelves. Three random ones, in order of appearance. Few weeks ago Mike spent incredibly kind words about our work . Very few people, if any, have a view on today's identity panorama & players as comprehensive as Mike's: being defined "essential resource" gives a very, very nice feeling. Thank you Mike! Some posts ago I teased about the identity (pun sort of intended) of the author of the book's foreword, but now that the rough cut has been updated it does not make sense to keep being silent on that. Imagine having written a book about relativity, and ending up with
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