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Day three at JavaOne, San Francisco

Finally got some bandwidth this morning to catch up on email and news. I was glad to find quite a few posts concerning the Dashboard vs. Konfabulator issue that was bound to come up after the keynote yesterday. When I first saw Dashboard I was hoping to hear that Apple had aqcuired Konfabulator and was building upon their software. Apparently this is not the case. I was never a fan of the Konfabulator business model (I think the runtime should be free for users, ala Flash) and I'm not a big fan of JavaScript, but that's no reason to run them out of business. I'm not sure what precendent this sets for other developers, but I bet we'll hear a lot more about it in the up coming weeks.

For lunch, time was tight so it was back to the Metreon (come on, it's across the street) to the Firewood Cafe for what turned out to be a really good thin crust pizza. Dinner was Blowfish Sushi on Bryant Street. Blowfish was definitely the least traditional of the three Sushi places I hit this week. The space was much larger, decorated in framed Anime and erotic cartoons, all set to a dance music soundtrack (mostly House while we were there.) The prices were decent (it ended up around $30/each with tip.) The vibe was hip, but the food was slightly better at Grandeho's Kamekyo.