{"id":788,"date":"2004-10-27T21:17:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-28T06:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/27\/near-pantheon-experiences-and-other-stories\/"},"modified":"2013-03-16T11:57:44","modified_gmt":"2013-03-16T20:57:44","slug":"248661","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/27\/248661\/","title":{"rendered":"Near-pantheon experiences and other stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I deserted my blog for a loooong time.<br \/>The reason is that this summer something flabbergastingly (there is such a word or I&#8217;ve just made it up?) &nbsp;great happened to me, and I waited to put my hands on evidence before blogging about it. In fact the evidence eventually arrived, but then I had doubt about the liceity of publishing it, then the thought simply disappeared and my blog went in starvation. With this post I&#8217;m officially breaking the deadlock, so there.<br \/>The flabbergasting event was a dinner in the States with the Microsoft first line, in which I had the pleasure to meet in person people whose usually you only see in the news or in the &#8220;urbi et orbi&#8221; company mails. And even better, a meeting with our Chief Software Architect!<br \/>You see, I guess that, being them PMs,&nbsp;many people in this OPML must meet or have met him actually as part of their job: but for me, that I work on the field on the other side of the globe, it was a unique experience (that made me pretty much a celebrity in my subsidiary, anyway&nbsp;:-)).<br \/>The evidence I was talking about above is consituted by some pictures of the event, but in fact I think I should not publish them: collecting all the permissions from my colleagues alone would be long, and I can brag textually as I&#8217;m doing anyway&#8230; <br \/>I won&#8217;t say anything about the content of the meeting, of course; what I will remember of it, anyway, is my surprise in realizing that the discussion was not limited to the executive summary level: in fact, it took deep dive in technical details (on the most disparate subjects) that I would not have thought achievable when being on the position of having a 360\u00b0 view of the company activities&#8230; after all, we are definitely not talking about an average person \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>OK. I broke the deadlock, now I can blog again&#8230; Vibro.NET Reloaded!<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I deserted my blog for a loooong time.The reason is that this summer something flabbergastingly (there is such a word or I&#8217;ve just made it up?) &nbsp;great happened to me, and I waited to put my hands on evidence before blogging about it. In fact the evidence eventually arrived, but then I had&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-useless"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1901,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions\/1901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}