I am currently in Vegas, resting a couple of days after a very hard end of year and an even more complex year start. I had the opportunity to play a couple of minutes with the new Mac Book Air at the Fashion Mall Apple Store. It definitively is a sexy machine. I would love to have one at work to replace my IBM laptop. This is a great machine for e-mail, Internet browsing and customer presentations. It will not replace my MacBook Pro any time soon, but it is a great addition to the portable Mac line of products. Judging from the crowds the new laptop was drawing and the number of inquiries , I don’t expect it to be the failure many have predicted.

I get a lot of questions about SOA. It turns out that my white paper “Successful SOA Implementation” has been quite popular and I get questions from all over the world. What I find surprising is that a large majority of those who contacted me don’t even bother to thank me once they get their answer. Do they think it is my job to reply to SOA questions? Is it the medium? I am not sure. What is evident though is that the Internet is not the best place to learn good manners. No matter what site you go to, discussions are rarely civilized. Most posters seem to believe they are geniuses and those who disagree are dumbasses at best.

So, the true question is, are people showing their true nature on the Internet? Are they just having fun by trying to create controversy? I am not sure, but I don’t really like what I see.