I had a lovely visit today with the folks at Eazel. Wednesday they have lunch brought in, so I timed my arrival carefully for free food. They generously shared.
I learned Don Melton is an old newspaper guy turned software engineer. He worked at the Orange County Register in the '80s, then at Knight Ridder, and helped bring Macs into the newsroom. That gives him some indirect role in my introduction to computing, because it was the Mac in the newsroom at the Pasadena Star News (a Knight Ridder paper) that really got me started in personal computing lo these many years ago.
Met Eli, who for so long guided my misguided Nautilus QA efforts, Michael Fleming and Ramiro, who helped sort out numerous Mozilla problems for our help system, and Rebecca, who I think is really on to something with Medusa.
It's fun to put faces with nicks and names.
I will note that Andy Hertzfeld looks like a gnome, and could hardly contain his enthusiasm when he showed me a cool new feature he's implementing for Nautilus - a tooltip- like way to display a note attached to a file in the main file browser window.
Whatever the outcome of the Eazel experiment, it's clear they did a good thing, and I was glad to get a chance to meet them and tell them that.