Got back from Montreal last Sunday but never posted the photos I uploaded. Here they are in all of their glory. I’m trying out a new Wordpress plugin to display this gallery so hopefully it works out.
If you click on any of the photos, you’ll get to the SmugMug Gallery, which is much easier to navigate.
photo taken by Mark Blevis
I’ve been in Montreal for the past day and I’m having a great time. I took the red-eye on Thursday night and arrived here Friday morning. We spent a couple hours working on Friday afternoon and had an amazing dinner followed by another hour of work after that. I’m here with some other Harman folks to setup a JBL Professional line array in a loudspeaker shootout at the Bell Center. The Bell Center is looking to replace their aging PA system and they’ve contacted 6 speaker companies (JBL Professional included) to come in and setup a system. Once they’re all setup, there will be a speaker shootout where they choose which one sounds the best. The winner gets the contract to setup the new sound system for the whole arena.
I watched a video last night that showed up in my Google Reader that I can’t stop thinking about. It’s from a conference called the Business Innovation Factory (BIF). It’s an interview by Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal with Jason Fried, the CEO and founder of 37signals, a web based software company (and also the developers/inventors of Ruby on Rails). Watch it here.
The interview focused mainly on building products and software that are usable by everyday people. The way technology should work for you, not against you. It’s a goal that not many companies seem to understand but the ones that do succeed. You would think that this would push the market towards these ideas being used everywhere, but that doesn’t seem to be the case.
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