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On the 4th of December, I went to Phoenix to attend a half-day seminar on the new client and server software from Apple. I wasn’t that amazed with the client (although it is pretty nice), just a lot of 3rd party ideas that are now part of the base OS. However, the server piece has amazing potential.

Apple was managed to stupid-proof a convergence of wiki, blog, and  web-based calendar. While none of these services are new,  the manner in which they are pulled together and centrally controlled by OS X Server will open these tools up to a wider audience.

If you haven’t checked it out yet, it is worth a look.

The semester is almost done (a long with my entire program!) and I can finally start thinking about blogging again. It is no that I don’t have anything to say, but I’ve been so busy that blogging seems to be the last thing on my priority list.

What made me want to post is that I heard a great saying on the radio yesterday. It was the director of the new movie “Atonement”, who was talking about how when he was younger he always felt like he had to have something to to say, because everybody around him always had something to say. Then one day he had an epiphany.

He realized you don’t always have to have something to say, as long as you are still listening and learning. I think this may be a good definition for wisdom. Wisdom is listening and learning even if you don’t have something to say.

Let just say, I’ve been doing a lot of listening and learning in the last month.