Tag: Travel

Santa Fe wrap-up

I just got back from Santa Fe by way of the Catalyst conference. I spent a week with the in-laws and their families. I like Santa Fe. It is a great eating town.

  • I highly recommend Maria’s Kitchen at St. Francis and Cordova. Simply awesome grub.
  • The Dragon Room has reopened. It’s been renovated and lost a little bit of its local charm. Drinks are still good though.
  • Upper Crust – when you need great pizza and not good service.
  • I found The Shed to be a little disappointing this time. May just have been as we were eating towards the end of the night.

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A lovely dinner

Last night I had dinner with a cast of characters:

We grabbed a late batch of dim sum at Ton Kiang. Good stuff I have to say.

One of the things that Mark Mc and noticed was that the identity market is remarkably small. It is definitely a good thing that ex-Access360/IBM, Thor/Oracle, Waveset/Sun guys can break bread and have a laugh over the deals that we used to compete. It’s that (grudging, at times) comradery in this market that I love and it is one the things that makes Catalyst so much fun.

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Watering holes, Cataclysmic Catalyst, and a new word

Mark was kind enough to recommend a few new watering holes in San Francisco. He also made his own mashup to create Cataclysmic Catalyst. In that vein of thought, I give you a snigglet: Paracatalysis – the identity market-wide halt during Catalyst. Paracatalysis continues into the week after Catalyst as well. Given that the following week is also July 4th week and that the 4th is a Wednesday, pretty much puts the identity market (at least here in the States) to sleep for two whole weeks.

As one who will be at Mark’s dinner, I am thankful that there will be no kilt involved. Having seen it once was plenty.